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 4 THE REVOLUTION

is exceedingly keen and opinion on the subject much divided, a divinity lecturer is expected to indicate at the outset the school or rzkéz‘z'ng to which he belongs. And this he generally does, but not always. A professor at Groningen, who ﬂourished before the period I am dealing with, began his ﬁrst course with a lecture on Philadelphia, but the polemical writings that soon ﬂowed in rapid succession from his pen became so numerous that he was actually obliged to set up a private printing-press.

My friendship with the late Professor of Divinity in this University goes a long way back, to the summer of 1874, when we met at GO'ttingen. Hastie had already a pretty wide acquaintance with Continental University life, Dutch as well as German, and was even then interested, as I can remember, in the subject I have undertaken to treat of. It was my ﬁrst visit to Germany, and although my relation to him was that of a much younger student to one who stood incomparably above him, we became close friends, and with some pretty long intervals of silence, remained so to the end. “What memories of Germany and of India,”