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PROFESSOR OWEN 
CH. V. 
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 ; — 
' Jtily 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 giped, 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 
