£ s. d. £ s. d. Balance in Bank, 1st Jan. 1876 1344 17 9 Paid by cheque: Jan. 1. Jackson, (outdoor Steward, Brantwood) 50 0 0 1. Kate Smith, (indoor Stewardess, Brantwood) 160 0 0 1. David Downes, (Steward in London) 115 0 0 1. David Fudge, (Coachman in London) 60 0 0 1. Secretary, 1st quarter, 1876 25 0 0 4. Frederick Crawley, in charge of school-rooms at Oxford 10 0 0 6. Self, pocket-money 20 0 0 17. Arthur Burgess, assistant engraver 27 10 0 20. New carriage 190 0 0 20. Gift to Carshalton, for care of spring 110 0 0 20. Madame Nozzoli, charities at Florence 10 0 0 20. Mrs. Wonnacott, charities at Abingdon 3 10 0 20. William Ward, for two copies of Turner 21 0 0 20. Charles Murray, for rubbings of brasses, and copy of Filippo Lippi 15 0 0 --------- 817 0 0 ---------- Balance Jan. 20 527 17 9 III. I am gradually rising into greater indignation against the baseness and conceit of the modern scientific mob, than even against the mere money-seekers. The following fragment of a letter from a Companion bears notably on this matter:— “The only earnest folks I know are cold-hearted ‘Freethinkers,’ and not very earnest either. My church-going friends are not earnest, except about their form of sound words. But I get on best with them. They are warmer, and would be what I wish, were circumstances not so dead set against it. My ‘Freethinking’ acquaintances say that with Carlyle the last of the great dreamers who have impeded the advance of science will pass away, and that, in fact, he is dead already, for nobody minds him. I don’t heed such words now as I used to do. Had I lived when Socrates was condemned, I would have felt hope extinguished; yet Jesus came long after him, and I will not fear that God will fail to send His great and good men, any more than that the sun will forget to rise.