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Rh or something like this, was the subject on which our conversation turned. He paused, and dwelt on the thought of the soul's hunger. 'Hunger is the great weaver in moral things as in physical. The hunger that is in the new-born child sits weaving the whole bodily frame, bones and sinews, out of nothing. And so I suppose in moral and spiritual things it is hunger builds up the being.' This was the purport of what he said, though of the words I cannot be sure that I give them faithfully. This was the last time I ever conversed with him."

Professor Campbell of St Andrews says:—

"You have asked me for some personal recollections of my lamented and revered colleague, Professor Ferrier. Though I had seen him at St Andrews in 1854, and once again at Oxford, I date my acquaintance with him from the autumn of 1863, when I was a candidate for the Greek Chair at St Andrews, at a time when he had been already for some months a sufferer. On becoming settled at St Andrews we were most kindly received, notwithstanding his illness, by him and his family; and I have a grateful recollection of his lively interest, more welcome because unobtrusive, in my novitiate as a professor. He also asked me about the work which I had left, in which I said I had gained friendships which made life richer. He said—'You may find that here too.'

"During the early part of my first session, which was his last, while he was still able to meet his class