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 the patron of learning, the poor’s best friend: to whom worldly success came in a larger measure than to most, but whom yet none envied while living, all mourned when dead; and the secret of whose rare good fortune was that he lived in the spirit of his own motto, ‘Non sibi, sed toti.’ Or such, in later days, as Jenner, who devoted his whole life to the patient investigation of the means by which the once greatest scourge of modern Europe might be rendered well-nigh harmless. Or, lastly, to come down within the personal recollection of many of us, such as Bright, toiling unrewarded for years; investigating disease in the wards of the hospital, and studying its consequences in the dead-house, till he had found out and described a previously unknown malady; nor only that, but had also pointed out the means by which to accomplish its prevention, and to attain its cure. And when his recompense had come, though tardily, and when at the summit of his success, he still retained all the simplicity and gentleness of a child. One approached him without fear, and