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the doctor held one Sunday a long discussion on the 
Ten Commandments as binding upon Christians. Mr. 
Carey argued that their only claim upon our obedience 
consisted in their having been re-ordained (indorsed 
as it were) by the church, — whether that meant the 
Holy Catholie or simply the Anglican Church was 
not decided, as | remember. Dr. Gray combated this 
extreme church view warmly and cleverly. Both were 
pugnacious amiably, as in their botanical fights. Both 
were excited, and the doctor showed his excitement 
in his characteristically self-forgetful way, by moving 
or jumping nervously about the room, sitting on 
the floor, lymg down flat, but laughing and sending 
sparks out of his eyes, and plying his arguments and 
making his witty thrusts all the while. I enjoyed it 
very much, scarcely observing the odd positions any 
more than the doctor did. 1 had seen him so conduct 
himself before.” 
It may be added to this that Dr. Gray was notice- 
able throughout his life for his alertness. In the street 
he was usually on a half run, for he never allowed 
himself quite time enough to reach his destination 
leisurely. When traveling by coach and climbing a 
hill he would sometimes alarm his fellow-travellers by 
suddenly disappearing through a window in his eager- 
ness to secure some plant he had spied ; his haste would 
not suffer him to open a door. As his motions were 
quick, so that he seemed always ready for a spring, 
so he found instant relaxation by throwing himself 
flat on the floor when tired, to rest, like a child. 
His physical characteristics expressed something of 
his mental qualities. He was quick and impetuous in 
temper, but his excitement was short-lived, and his 
prevailing spirit was one of apparently inexhaustible 
