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early days gives abundant testimony ; and to the dim but animating 
memorials of those Highland homes, where his parents passed their 
youth, he attributed much of the success in life which he, with other 
members of his father’s family, gained — for they were memorials of 
families revered for their human sympathy, their unswerving recti- 
tude, their kindly solicitude for the people around them, as well as 
their deep affection for one another. Speaking of the “Highland 
Parish,” written by his well-known brother, Norman Macleod, D.D., 
minister of the Barony parish, Glasgow, where the picture is faithfully 
drawn of what those people were, and of the influences under which 
they lived and died, he writes : “ It is impossible now, amidst the 
‘ sturm und drang ’ of modern life, to define the nature and influ- 
ence of that circumambient atmosphere which a Highland upbring- 
ing in the time of my parents produced, and which their children 
unconsciously found around them ever afterwards. A temperament 
moulded by much of poetry and legend and misty tales, and not 
free from a certain suspicion of superstition, gave a complexion to 
many of their views of life and of persons ; and while good breed- 
ing and unswerving loyalty to old friends, with much gratitude for 
kindness received, were characteristic of them, yet prejudice and 
antipathies were not denied.” But though this influence from the 
past must not be lost sight of, yet perhaps he owed more to the 
moulding and guiding example of his eldest brother Norman, apart 
from the wise and loving influence of his parents, than to anyone 
else. Concerning him he writes : “ From earliest youth he was a 
personality in the family. We all looked up to him, and he did 
not fail to exercise over us the best and most enduring influence. 
His great talent, high aspirations, deep religious feeling, and broad, 
manly principles, full of all that was true and real and honest, and 
wholly free from cant and suspicion of hypocrisy, could not fail to 
have an abiding and continuous effect on all of us, who were his 
juniors, and all of whom were deeply attached to him. His ex- 
ample steadied us, his happy and affectionate nature welded us into 
a truly united family, and exercised over us an influence which 
augmented and confirmed the happy effects of our parents’ more 
silent instruction.” 
Surrounded, therefore, by such influences, which all through his 
life continued to exercise their hold over him, and himself a son of 
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