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30 needless alarms. He never stooped to win theological favour by attacking unpopular names. He never allowed any religious sentiment or fancy to interfere with his manly and severe sense of truth and duty. He shewed that it was possible to be impartial without weakness, and orthodox without bitterness. May the University long remember that such was the character which she delighted to honour; may his successors in this Chair be encouraged and enabled to act and to speak, in this most important respect, according to his example.