358 IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 



pretension — these things were reserved for those who 

 had the privilege of being admitted to the inner sanctuary 

 of his friendship, and the memory of them will remain 

 green and fragrant while life lasts. 



I have already referred to his profoundly reverent 

 spirit ; and no estimate of Dr Hardy would be complete 

 which ignored this side of his nature. Not that he himself 

 was careful to bring it into prominence ; on the contrary 

 he showed, perhaps to an unusual degree, the reticence 

 which characterises most of his countrymen in relation 

 to the greatest of all subjects, and nothing was more 

 abhorrent to him than the flippancy with which shallow 

 natures drag it into conversation on all occasions. But 

 no one could know him intimately without perceiving 

 how truly devout he was, and how constantly he 

 dwelt in the conscious presence of the Divine. His 

 work was done " as ever in his great Taskmaster's 

 eye " ; and doubtless, in the doing of it, glimpses were 

 vouchsafed to him of the smile which, as Dante sings, 

 breaks over the face of the Universe when it is seen 

 that the Supreme Power is also 



"The Love that moves the heaven and all the stars." 



