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was generally good. Towards the end of last May, however, he 
imprudently fell asleep on the damp grass, and brought upon him- 
self an attack of inflammation of the lungs, which, in the course of 
a week, terminated fatally on the 4th of June 1866, in the 72d year 
of his age. 
Dr G-reville was a man of rare accomplishments, and of no ordinary 
virtues. His studies were not confined to science, nor his ambition 
limited to the honours which it merits, and the fame which it brings. 
His large heart embraced every measure of philanthropy, whether 
national or local, — whether originating in vicious legislation, in the 
necessary inequalities of social life, or bearing upon the victims of 
ignorance, intemperance, and crime. Nor did he take a less interest 
in those higher questions which disquiet the inner and nobler life 
of man, stretching beyond that bourne from which no traveller 
returns, and affecting interests which time cannot measure nor space 
define. He had pondered in the lesser world over mysteries which 
he failed to comprehend, — over marvels of life which startled science 
and rebuked reason ; and he submitted with the same reverence to 
those deeper mysteries which human instruments had equally 
revealed. Faith, and science falsely so called, had to him, and has, 
I hope, to many of us, two opposite horizons — the one where the sun 
rises, and the other where he sets. In the auroral and meridian 
light of the one he studied, and lived, and died ; and in the murky 
twilight and midnight darkness of the other, he wept over the fallen 
stars of science, — the Sappers and Miners of our Faith. 
Charles Maclaren, an eminent geologist, was born in Ormiston, 
East Lothian, on the 7th October 1782, and was the only son of his 
father, who was a small farmer. His uncle by the mother’s side was 
a smith in the household of George III., and his nephew would 
have been brought up to the same profession, had it not proved incom- 
patible with the delicacy of his constitution. After acquiring a good 
education at different parochial schools, and acquiring at home a 
knowledge of modern languages and of some branches of science, 
he spent some years as clerk and book-keeper to several Edinburgh 
firms. 
In the year 1816 Mr Maclaren, in conjunction with Mr William 
Ritchie, established the Scotsman , a newspaper which, though perse- 
