434 MEMOIR OF GEORGE WILSON. CHAP. X. 



school," its first delivery being in Leith, and the substance of 

 the whole being given in one lecture. Some years later, it 

 was offered in a more expanded form in two lectures to the 

 Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh, in 1853, and with slight 

 changes and additions, is published as then delivered. The title 

 has been supposed to be borrowed from Bunyan's town of Man- 

 soul, a quotation from it being used as a motto ; but this 

 motto was an after-thought, and not a suggestive one previous 

 to writing. A reverence for the body, with its wonderful powers 

 and capabilities, and the noble destiny awaiting those sharing 

 the Christian's resurrection hopes, seems the stand-point from 

 which he gazes at those senses by which the soul and body most 

 freely commune together. The strongly prevailing tendency to 

 undervalue the body he regretted, and probably in this " prose 

 poem," as it is fitly called, he has done very much to counteract 

 it. The 'Five Gateways' may be taken as one of the best 

 specimens of his popular non-scientific lectures ; the pleasure it 

 affords is permanent, and answers to one test of a work of genius, 

 in being equally enjoyed by the young and the old. A cheap 

 edition was speedily called for, and in a second issue there ap- 

 pears a beautiful illustration, by Noel Paton, representing the 

 soul as a child, to whom the senses female figures tenderly 

 and lovingly minister. Mr. George Harvey was the medium by 

 which the request for an illustration was conveyed to Mr. Noel 

 Paton, as is shown by this note : 



" DEAR MAESTRO GIORGIO, You were pleased to say that you 

 would visit Noel Paton the Good, with a letter from me about 

 the coveted design from his wonder-working pencil. Know 

 then, Maestro Eccellentissimo, that enclosed is the letter, and if 

 you will make it part of your Pilgrim's Progress to carry it to 

 Fairyland, where No 111 abides, and deliver it with speech of 

 your own to him who should receive it, you will render another 

 kindness to your loving 



" GIORGIO VOLUSENO." 



The difficulties surmounted by Noel Paton's beautiful design, 

 will be better appreciated by perusing a letter written previously. 



