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ranging at will through the illimitable spaces of Creation and 

 almost handling what he called * the foundation-stones of the 

 material universe/ found its true rest and happiness in the 

 love and the mercy of Him whom the humblest Christian calb 

 his Father. Of such a man it may be truly said that he had 

 his citizenship in heaven, and that he looked for, as a Saviour, 

 the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the unnumbered worlds 

 were made, and in the likeness of whose image our new and 

 spiritual body will be fashioned." 



Tho Tripos catno in January, 1854?. " You will 

 nooJ to got muftetees for tho Senate Room. Tako 

 your plaid or nig to wrap round your feet and legs," 

 was his father's advice advice which will appeal to 

 many who can remember the Senate House as it felt 

 on a cold January morning. 



Maxwell had been preparing carefully for this 

 examination. Thus to his aunt, Miss Cay, in June, 

 1853, ho writes: "If anyone asks how I am getting 

 on in mathematics, say that I am busy arranging 

 everything so as to bo able to express all distinctly, 

 so that examiner may bo satisfied now and pupils 

 edified hereafter. It is pleasant work and very 

 strengthening, but not nearly finished." 



Still, tho illness of July, 1853, had left some effect 

 Professor Baynes states that he said that on entering 

 the Senate House for the first paper he felt his mind 

 almost a blank, but by-and-by his mental vision 

 became preternaturally clear. 



The moderators were Mackenzie of Cains, whose 

 advice had been mainly instrumental in leading him 

 to migrate to Trinity, Win. Walton of Trinity, 

 Wolstenholme of Christ's, and Percival Frost of St. 

 John's. 



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