insecurity--of life being ready to slip
away--the sensation that this world and its ongoings, its mighty
interests, and delicate joys, is ready to be shut up in a moment--this
instinctive apprehension of the peril of vehement bodily enjoyment--all
this would tend to make him "walk softly," and to keep him from much of
the evil that is in the world, and would help him to live soberly,
righteously, and godly even in the bright and rich years of his youth.
His power of giving himself up to the search after absolute truth, and
the contemplation of Supreme goodness, must have been increased by this
same organization. But all this delicate feeling, this fineness of
sense, did rather quicken the energy and fervor of the indwelling
soul--the {ti thermon pragma} that burned within. In the quaint words of
Vaughan, it was "manhood with a female eye." These two conditions must,
as we have said, have made him dear indeed. And by a beautiful law of
life, having that organ out of which are the issues of life, under a
sort of perpetual nearness to suffering, and so liable to pain, he would
be more easily moved for others--more alive to their pain--more filled
with fellow-feeling.

"The Editor cannot dwell on anything later. Arthur accompanied
him to Germany in the beginning of August. In returning to
Vienna from Pesth, a wet day probably gave rise to an
intermittent fever, with very slight symptoms, and apparently
subsiding, when a sudden rush of blood to the head put an
instantaneous end to his life on the 15th of September 1833. The
mysteriousness of such a dreadful termination to a disorder
generally of so little importance, and in this instance of the
slightest kind, has been diminished by an examination which
showed a weakness of the cerebral vessels, and a want of
sufficient energy in the heart. Those whose eyes must long be
dim with tears, and whose hopes on this side the tomb are broken
down forever, may cling, as well as they can, to the poor
consolation of believing that a few more years would, in the
usual chances of humanity, have severed the frail union of his
graceful and manly form with the pure spirit that it enshrined.

"The remains of Arthur were brought to England, and interred on
the 3d of January 1834, in the chancel of Clevedon Church in
Somersetshire, belonging to his maternal grandfather Sir Abraham
Elton, a place selected by the E