. . . Being fully convinced that the world will not
continue to go round unless I pay it personal attention, I must run
away to my work.'
CHAPTER VI. - 1869-1885.
Edinburgh - Colleagues - FARRAGO VITAE - I. The Family Circle -
Fleeming and his Sons - Highland Life - The Cruise of the Steam
Launch - Summer in Styria - Rustic Manners - II. The Drama -
Private Theatricals - III. Sanitary Associations - The Phonograph -
IV. Fleeming's Acquaintance with a Student - His late Maturity of
Mind - Religion and Morality - His Love of Heroism - Taste in
Literature - V. His Talk - His late Popularity - Letter from M.
Trelat.
THE remaining external incidents of Fleeming's life, pleasures,
honours, fresh interests, new friends, are not such as will bear to
be told at any length or in the temporal order. And it is now time
to lay narration by, and to look at the man he was and the life he
lived, more largely.
Edinburgh, which was thenceforth to be his home, is a metropolitan
small town; where college professors and the lawyers of the
Parliament House give the tone, and persons of leisure, attracted
by educational advantages, make up much of the bulk of society.
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