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into oblivion. On the contrary, however, 

 the opinions which 1 had promulgated were 

 said to be absurd and untenable, and even 

 ridiculed by a writer in the Edinburgh Re- 

 view. When, afterwards, Mr. Lawrence be- 

 gan to lecture at the College, he adopted the 

 same line of conduct; nor were his hostile and 

 taunting expressions confined, as he says, 

 to his first lectures. The theme of his exult- 

 ation and raillery was inti-oduced to enliven 

 many others. In the published lectures 

 will be found a varnished character of my- 

 self, in which, however, I clearly distin- 

 guish one truth, that of having always acted 

 as liis zealous friend ; and surely the recol- 

 lection of such conduct would have induced 

 a generous mind to have glossed over also 

 what it might have considered as my de- 

 fects. Wlien I heard those lectures, I told 

 Mr. Lawrence, (for I had always spoken my 

 sentiments to him with candor,) that he 

 seemed to me to have done a very foolish 

 thing in attacking my opinions in a place 

 where I felt obliged to defend them ; and 

 added, even the consideration of the imr 

 propriety of two professors in the same 

 establishment differing with one another, 



