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Person; and few cases of 'influence as understood by Oxford men, are more remarkable. Considering the shortness Of his life and the limits Of his position, the impression which he made upon his contemporaries is not short Of surprising. To the average reader Of to-day it is probably interpreted for the most part by Torn Brown's Schooldays. That is a Charming book, even when one's schooldays are over; but it then suggests certain misgivings. The Rugby men had their weaknesses. What a good man Walrond is! Said Professor Sellar to Matthew Arnold. Ah replied Arnold, we were all so good at Rugby. Yes, retorted Sellar, but he kept it up. They all, as it seems to an outsider, kept it up The very tone of voice Of a true Rugbeian implied, modestly but firmly, that he was endowed with a moral consciousness He had a quasi - Official right to share the lofty View which he had imbibed at the feet Of the master. He always seemed to be radiating Virtuous influences. A conscience is, no doubt, a very useful possession in early years. But when a man has kept one till middle life, he ought to have established a certain rnodns vivendi with it it Should be absorbed and become part Of himself - not a separate faculty delivering oracular utterances. The amiable weakness Of the Rugby school was a certain hypertrophy Of the conscience. It had become unpleasantly obtrusive and self-asser tive. In other words, they were decidedly apt to be moral prigs.

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