^{page 498 note *} Plin. Epist. iii. 5.

^{page 498 note †} In his Lectures on the Romans, he makes no reference to an exegetical or critical view of the passages, though in that Epistle there is a great temptation to do so. He takes the statements of the Apostle in their broadest and most general acceptation. His mind did not rest on the niceties of philological distinctions.

^{page 499 note *} This experiment, I find, had been suggested by Professor Robison, in his Elements of Mechanical Philosophy, § 474.

^{page 503 note *} It is pleasing to remember how the last mortal days of such a man were engaged with plans of instruction for the benefit of this very class. He had for some time been entirely taken up with a School and Church, in the worst locality of the Old Town of Edinburgh. The man of high speculation became a teacher of ragged children. The Professor of Theology descended from his chair to impress the first rudiments of Christian truth upon the rude minds of a congregation the most ignorant and most neglected.

^{page 504 note *} This principle of territorial subdivision, for which Dr Chalmers, as a Christian philanthropist, so long contended, is at last acknowledged as the essential preparation for bringing spiritual instruction to bear upon the worst portions of our crowded and demoralised population. Lord Ashley, the enlightened friend of the poor, has, with the full approbation of the Premier, moved for a commission to inquire into the best method of dividing all parishes in England which contain a population of 10,000 or upwards.