LIFE OF DR. ROLLESTON. XXXvii 



found in some remark of Eolleston's a support to his own belief 

 that ' the soul of each living being, down to the lowest, secretes 

 the body thereof, as a snail secretes its shell.' There seems how- 

 ever to have been no more ground for supposing Rolleston 

 inclined toward this mediseval doctrine, than he was to the idea 

 which Kingsley asks him in the same letter to reconsider, that 

 the gorilla and baboon brain are degraded forms (apparently 

 from the human). A few days after this, Rolleston writes an 

 elaborate letter to the ' Medical Times and Gazette ' (published 

 Oct. 1 8, 1862), giving particulars of his own late speech, con- 

 tinuing the argument on brain-classification, and ending with 

 the following paragraph as to the bearing of his scientific re- 

 search on his religious belief: — 'I may say, in conclusion, that it 

 has always been clear to me that the true relation of man's body 

 to his soul, to the world in which he lives, and to the Governor 

 of it, can never be fully elucidated either by physiological or 

 psychological researches, nor yet by both combined. The saying 

 of Favorinus, viz. : — 



4 On earth there is nothing great but man ; 

 In man there is nothing great but mind' — 



may be taken as an adequate expression of the results in which 

 such researches by themselves would land and leave us. Nor 

 need we, when writing as men of science, add anything to this 

 dictum of a pagan philosopher. But, thinking in our privacy as 

 Christian men, we feel that this expression no longer covers all 

 the facts within our knowledge, and that events, now nineteen 

 centuries old, necessitate some modifications of it.' 



In 1861 Dr. Rolleston married Grace, daughter of Dr. John 

 Davy, and niece of Sir Humphry Davy. For the first years of 

 their married life their home was 15 New Inn Hall Street, a 

 well-preserved seventeenth-century house, said to have been 

 built by Vanbrugh ; and in 1866 they moved to a house they had 

 built in South Parks Road, close to the Museum, where the 

 labour of his life went on. Rolleston had now found his way 

 to a position giving full scope to the teaching power by which 

 he mainly made his mark in the world. This kind of power, 



