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interests of Canada. To spend and be spent for the good 

 of the community was the well-fulfilled ambition of his life. 

 To a laborious calling and equally laborious scientific pursuits, 

 he added constant efforts in the promotion of temperance and 

 sanitary reform. So importunate was he in the presence of 

 so much inertia and gainsaying, that he learned to keep him- 

 self more and more in the back-ground, lest the causes he 

 loved should suffer by being known as Dr. Carpenter's hobbies ; 

 but when all others grew indifferent, he never for a moment 

 relaxed the untiring zeal with which, by every means in his 

 power, he urged into renewed activity men who were not 

 supposed to need such an impulse. Every quarter of an hour 

 of his day was occupied with its share in the expenditure of 

 intense mental energy." 



Subsequently, a portrait of Philip appeared in "The Wit- 

 ness," with a fuller biography (the writer of which had visited his 

 work-room, and looked at many of his Warrington tracts and 

 placards that were pasted round it, from which he gave ex- 

 tracts) : — " Few men have lived such useful and influential 

 lives as did the late Dr. Carpenter : and very, very few indeed 

 possessed the secret of accomplishing so much as he did 

 without themselves coming prominently before the public. His 

 life was an entirely unselfish one. . . . He preferred to remain 

 in comparative obscurity, believing that thereby the ends he 

 worked for would be the more surely accomplished. ... It was 

 said of him that his work was that of four ordinary men. His 

 own view was that he did what one ordinary man should do." 

 After recording some of his unceasing public labours, and 

 noting that he never left his numberless minor duties at " loose 

 ends," the writer adds : " He was always busy ; but he ever 

 had time to spend in social intercourse and his home duties. 

 It may have been from the abnormal excitement caused by an 

 overworked brain, or from the sharp manner of one always in 

 earnest, that those who knew him little regarded him as harsh 

 or impracticable ; but many have lost in him, not only a dear 

 friend, but one whose companionship was a constant lesson on 

 the high destiny of the human soul. It is said of him that ' he 



