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away empty-handed. We ought not to lose the 

 fossil.' 



The following extract from Mrs. Owen's 

 diary gives striking evidence of the widespread 

 popularity of Owen's labours : — 



'July 28. — A letter to-day from the Principal 

 of the College at Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 

 who encloses a printed sheet with extracts from 

 R.'s Rede Lecture, delivered at Cambridge in 

 1859. He says this printed sheet is hung up in 

 every public room and every sleeping room in the 

 gymnasium at Amherst.' 



The extracts referred to consist of the conclud- 

 ing words of Professor Owen's Rede Lecture. 

 After a description of the human body, the 

 lecturer concludes : ' Such are the dominating 

 powers with which we, and we alone are gifted ! I 

 say gifted, for the surpassing organisation was no 

 work of ours. " It is He that hath made us, and not 

 we ourselves." This frame is a temporary trust, for 

 the uses of which we are responsible to the Maker. 

 O you who possess it in all the supple vigour 

 of lusty youth, think well what it is that He has 

 committed to your keeping ! Waste not its 

 energies ; dull them not by sloth ; spoil them not 

 by pleasures ! The supreme work of creation has 

 been accomplished that you might possess a body, 

 the sole erect, of all animal bodies the most 

 free, and for what ? For the service of the soul. 

 Strive to realise the conditions of the possession 



