e anything
beyond the limits of the national character. In all things,
while he deeply reverenced principles, he chose to deal with
the concrete rather than with abstractions. He studied men
rather than man." The words in italics imply an insight into
the deepest springs of human action, the conjunct causes of
what we call character such as few men of large experience
can attain.

"From the latter part of his residence at Cambridge, a gradual
but very perceptible improvement in the cheerfulness of his
spirits gladdened his family and his friends; intervals there
doubtless were, when the continual seriousness of his habits of
thought, or the force of circumstances, threw something more of
gravity into his demeanor; but in general he was animated and
even gay, renewing or preserving his intercourse with some of
those he had most valued at Eton and Cambridge. The symptoms of
deranged circulation which had manifested themselves before,
ceased to appear, or at least so as to excite his own attention;
and though it struck those who were most anxious in watching
him, that his power of enduring fatigue was not quite so great
as from his frame of body and apparent robustness might have
been anticipated, nothing gave the least indication of danger
either to their eyes, or to those of the medical practitioners
who were in the habit of observing him. An attack of
intermittent fever, during the prevalent influenza of the spring
of 1833, may perhaps have disposed his constitution to the last
fatal blow."

To any one who has watched the history of the disease by which "so quick
this bright thing came to confusion," and who knows how near its subject
must often, perhaps all his life, have been to that eternity which
occupied so much of his thoughts and desires, and the secrets of which
were so soon to open on his young eyes, there is something very touching
in this account. Such a state of health would enhance, and tend to
produce, by the sensations proper to such a condition, that habitual
seriousness of thought, that sober judgment, and that tendency to look
at the true life of things--that deep but gentle and calm sadness, and
that occasional sinking of the heart, which make his noble and strong
inner nature, his resolved mind, so much more impressive and endearing.

This feeling of personal