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X PREFATORY NOTICE.
its faith, hopes, aims and labours, in a plane higher than that on
which the traffic of ordinary minds is driven.
"It is fortunate for men of this order, especially fortunate for
those of them whose lot is cast in these exceeding practical times
of ours, that they have found a champion whose shield protects
them from the unfeeling 2^ity of that portion of the world that is
busied only with material interests, as well as from the taunts of
all who measure themselves and others by small successes in
ignoble spheres. Of this order Arthur Hallam may now be
regarded as the Eepresentative, and " In Memoriam " as the
enduring Vindication. To that same order of minds, and that
same band of jjure, high-souled, devoted men, whom "God's
ordinance of Death" withheld from the achievement of a
distinction commensurate with their powers, belonged Thomas
Pattison.
" ' Sleep sweetly tender heart in peace :
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet.' "