PREFACE. 



When I informed Dr. Martineau of my intention to prepare 

 a Memoir of my brother, whom he had known from a child, he 

 wrote : "lam truly glad that you propose to draw some more 

 durable portrait of your dear brother Philip, than the slight 

 sketches which have hitherto appeared. His rare goodness, 

 and even the eccentricities of his thought and conscience, gave 

 an originality and. freshness to his life, which entitle it to an 

 exceptional immunity from oblivion. " To the Secretary of the 

 Warrington Memorial he afterwards wrote of him, as " a man to 

 whose eminent gifts and goodness it is a privilege and delight 

 to pay a heartfelt homage. Among all the best men I have 

 known, I can find no better." He similarly impressed others 

 in very different circles. 



In his early ministry, he was quickened by "that spirit 

 which roused him to great moral enterprises, and made him 

 trample upon impossibilities." He thought it " easier to be a 

 whole Christian than a half-Christian : " and insisted on the 

 practical character of precepts of Jesus which Christendom 

 usually ignores. He had singleness of aim : and, not being 

 double-minded, he was not half-hearted. He had little regard 

 for the opinion of the world in questions of morals : and he 



