Dr. Prichard was, moreover, according to Dr. Addington Symonds, "a Christian Philosopher; no one knew him intimately without being aware of the strong influence which piety maintained over his mind, and how it actuated his conduct". The influence, therefore, which his special subjects exercised on Walter Bagehot's line of thought, was, as regarded religion, entirely in harmony with his home teaching. Mr. Bagehot fully appreciated the value of Walter's intimate relations with Dr. Prichard and his family. He writes on 22nd February, 1840: "I was glad to hear of your intellectual employment at the Red Lodge (Dr. Prichard's house at Clifton), and hope you will avail yourself of every opportunity of acquiring the habits and tastes that pervade the house. I know enough of the pleasure they afford to regret that I have formed so few of them." Dr. Addington Symonds writes "that fancy and imagination were not prominent faculties in Dr. Prichard. He was never at a loss for a suitable illustration to enrich his style which was affluent as well as terse and vigorous. Yet there was not that conscious enjoyment in the pursuit of analogies and likenesses which belong to men in whom the faculties I have adverted to are strongly marked, and correspondently with this, I think that he had no decided æsthetical tendency, no such sensibility to the beautiful as would lead him to dwell on The work Greek sailor in Romaic, and the man was so delighted, that he caught the boy linguist in his arms, and kissed him heartily!" He studied in Edinburgh, Cambridge, and Oxford, and received nearly every honour accorded to science in Germany and in France no less than at home. through which Dr. Prichard's name is best known, Researches into the Physical History of Mankind, was published in three editions, in the years, 1813, 1826, and 1847. Each was a greatly amplified edition on the last. Other works, "with which," says Dr. Addington Symonds, "his name will be ever associated were on 'Nervous Diseases' and 'Insanity'; The Natural History of Man, Egyptian Mythology, written chiefly to disprove Professor Murray's opinion that the Egyptian people were peculiar to themselves and to Africa; The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations, and The Review of the Doctrine of a Vital Principle, in which there is a very masterly disposal of Dr. Priestley's well-known argument ; viz., that the phenomena of mind and those of matter belong to the same substance"." * the enjoyments of poetry and the fine arts; though he was too much of a scholar, and in every way too well informed not to be able to converse on these subjects." Precisely the quality-imagination—which Dr. Addington Symonds denies to Dr. Prichard, Walter Bagehot possessed to a very uncommon degree. Since the days when, as a small boy, he flew about the lawns of Herd's Hill with his sword, ruthlessly slashing off the heads of the flowers, exclaiming, "And he cut off the heads of the Saracens by hundreds of thousands," imagination was ever a salient characteristic in Walter Bagehot. Take almost any page of his book, Physics and Politics, and you can trace with what effect his imagination dealt with, and recast into modern trains of thought, the knowledge and research of scientific authorities. Dr. Prichard and other explorers dug out of the dim past, and exposed to light, actual facts concerning the history of human races, stopping short, nevertheless, of inspiring any impulse to use the past in order to elucidate the present. Walter Bagehot emancipates the principles evolved through such research from the storehouses of learning, and gives them renewed vitality by turning them on to modern conditions and modern developments, applying them especially to the subjects which were his own pursuit. The grasp which imagination alone can give of the substance and evidence of things not seen, was clearly the power which gave Walter Bagehot a very distinct position in the world of modern thought, and gave also his individuality the peculiar influence it possessed over his fellow-men. CHAPTER V. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. OXFORD and Cambridge were debarred owing to Mr. Bagehot objecting on principle to all doctrinal tests which were then required of the undergraduates at the older Universities. Mitigating the chance of dangers and temptations in London was the house of the guardian angels, "Aunt and Uncle Reynolds" at Hampstead, which was to be treated as a second home. University College, London, afforded the best schooling for youths whose fathers objected to doctrinal tests. A certain Dr. Hoppus, a Unitarian, had a house for pupils/cata studying there, and it was decided that to University College Walter Bagehot should go, and that he should live with Dr. Hoppus at 39 Camden Street, Camden Town, where father and son presented themselves in the beginning of October, 1842. "I must confess," he writes to his mother after a few days' residence there, "to having felt rather dismal, when Papa left me at the University in the midst of a thick London fog; and I cannot say but I felt rather dismal occasionally since, when I think of Herd's Hill and you all sitting quietly and happily down amid all its beauties, while I am toiling here in the midst of dust and smoke. More especially I prefer the evenings at home, with Papa reading aloud Sir Samuel Romilly, to those we have here, although I have managed by dint of hard work to get through them pleasantly enough." About a month after he had been at College, Bagehot met with his first real trouble. "CAMDEN TOWN, "MY DEAREST PAPA, "30th October, 1842. "I sit down in great perplexity of mind to write to you; I do not know whether the course of conduct I am now ΙΟΙ taking, will appear to you right or not, but I can only say that it has not been taken without the most anxious consideration. I hope I am doing right, certainly I am not doing what is pleasing to me; and I feel it is to be my duty to take a step before the distance between us will allow me to consult you, which would have been the greatest comfort to me." then describes a state of things highly reprehensible which had been going on in secret in the house of Dr. Hoppus, and which he had suspected for some time, "although," he writes, "I have tried to disbelieve it as long as I could". When he was fully convinced of the wrong conduct of two of his fellowstudents which involved lies and deception, "I feel," he writes, "that it cannot be my duty to allow this state of things to continue; I do not think it would be doing right either to Dr. Hoppus or to himself; yet the office of tale bearer is so invidious and in general so contemptible that I confess I am exceeding loath to undertake it." He then explains why immediate action is necessary, and continues, "What makes it still more painful to me is that - (mentioning the chief culprit) has so much good feeling and is altogether so pleasing, that I like what I have seen of him, except in this unfortunate affair, I have expressed my abhorrence of it to him, when I only suspected it. I am now going to seek a conversation with Dr. H.; I need not tell you how much anxiety this has cost me, or how much I dislike the duty I am going to perform, but my resolution has not been taken without the most careful deliberation, and I may add earnest prayer. It will give me much comfort to hear from you." Dr. H. was much For Later-"The conversation is now over. shocked, and seems inclined to sift the matter to the bottom : further indeed than I had supposed, as he intends, if he finds my information correct, to send —— away immediately. this, I shall, in some respects be sorry, although I cannot but think it essential to's welfare that he should be immediately removed from London. I cannot say more, as it is more than time for me to go to college, and I have a racking headache, caused, I think, in great part by my not having slept well for the last night or two, scarcely at all last night, which was spent in resolving and doubting on the step I have now taken. I need not say how much good it will do me, to know that you think I have done right. Dr. H. assured me that he was greatly obliged to me for stating it to him, which makes me hope that I have done so." Mr. Bagehot writes in answer a letter of sympathy and approval. 'Many, many thanks for the kind sympathy of your note," Bagehot answered. "Many difficulties have arisen out of this most painful affair. . . . The step I have taken has, of course, made my companions exceedingly angry, and for this I was prepared. They do not, however, break forth into any abuse, nor have any painful scenes of a quarrelsome nature occurred; on the contrary, they do not speak to me 'either good or bad'. This perhaps is the very best course for all parties which they could have pursued.'s father is coming here to-day, and Dr. Hoppus informed me that he should probably wish me to repeat in his presence what I stated to him. The scene today will probably be an exceedingly painful one- - Friday morning. The painful scene of last night is over; it was trying to all of us : 's father seemed at first inclined to be very angry, but after talking with Dr. Hoppus for some time, he became much calmer." The result of this action of Walter Bagehot's was that Dr. Hoppus sent both culprits away. "It is my first taste of the troubles of life," Bagehot wrote. "Henceforth I shall perhaps never be wholly free from them, and although overcoming one may render the others more easy, I felt the other day with some beautiful lines of Wordsworth : Yet why repine we, created as we are for joy and rest, "I must say good-bye as I am scribbling, when I ought to be reading Mr. De Morgan on the square roots of unity!'" In the beginning of the next term Bagehot writes to his father: "I went to breakfast with Smith Osler, this morning, and on his offering to perform his promise of proposing me in the Debating Society, I told him frankly that I thought my |