But for the phrase “Hume’s Lectures once done with, I flung the thing
away for ever,” quoted by Mr. Froude as from “a note somewhere,” I
should, on the evidence of handwriting, etc., have decided
unhesitatingly for the second and more extensive of the two
hypotheses.—The attendance on the Chemistry Class, which would become
a fact if that hypothesis were correct, would be of some independent
interest. With Carlyle’s turn for science at that time, it was not
unlikely. I may add that, from talks with him, I have an impression
that, some time or other, he must have attended Professor Jameson’s
class of Natural History. He had certainly heard Jameson lecture
pretty frequently; for he described Jameson’s lecturing humorously and
to the life, the favourite topic of his recollection being Jameson’s
discourse on the order _Glires_ in the Linnæan Zoology. Though I have
looked over the Matriculation Lists and also the preserved class-lists
pretty carefully from 1809 to 1824, it is just possible that Carlyle’s
name in one of Jameson’s class-lists within that range of time may
have escaped me. The only other Professor, not already mentioned in
the text, that I remember to have heard him talk of was Dr. Andrew
Brown, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres; but _him_ he knew, I
think, only by occasional dropping in at his lectures.
Footnote 22:
Carlyle to a correspondent, in one of Mr. Ireland’s copies of letters:
_Conway_, p. 178.
Footnote 23:
Ditto, _ibid._ p. 180.
Footnote 24:
Ditto, _ibid._ pp. 201, 202.
Footnote 25:
Carlyle to his brother John, quoted in Mr. Froude’s Article.
Footnote 26:
_Reminiscences_, ii. 16, 11.
Footnote 27:
Quoted at p. 57 of Mr. William Howie Wylie’s excellent volume entitled
_Carlyle: The Man and His Books_.
Footnote 28:
Mr. Ireland’s copies of Letters, in _Conway_, p. 171.
Footnote 29:
_Ibid._ p. 180.
Footnote 30:
Quoted in Mr. Froude’s Article.
Footnote 31:
Quoted _ibid._
Footnote 32:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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