A man of the people, he was understood by the people; and he wished it to be so. When we passed through the Sutors of Cromarty some years ago, about six in the morning of a fine summer day, there was a sailor at the wheel on the bridge. Under the belief that we were strangers to the locality, he pointed out the statue in the distance and gave an account, correct in the main, of what Miller had been and what he had done. In dwelling upon the life the narrator seemed to borrow respect for the dignity of all labour and of his own calling. Goldsmith thought of Burke that in giving up to party what was meant for mankind he had narrowed his mental powers and lessened his influence and force. It may be that there are some who think that, in doing the ecclesiastical work which he accomplished, he had given up to the Church of Scotland in all her branches what was meant for science. Such a judgment would be incorrect; it would certainly be one which would but feebly reflect the convictions of all Scotchmen. It is a true remark of the elder Disraeli that few men of science have either by their work or in their life influenced the staple of the thinking of humanity. To influence a whole people is certainly given but rarely to any one man. But to mould the opinions of his countrymen in a lasting sense,--and no higher object would he have desired--was no less certainly given to Hugh Miller. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1829. Poems written in the Leisure Hours of a Journeyman Mason. _Inverness._ 1829. Letters on the Herring Fishery. _Inverness_ (reprint from _Inverness Courier_). 1835. Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland; or, The Traditional History of Cromarty. _Edinburgh._ 1839. Letter from one of the Scottish People to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vaux, on the opinions expressed by his lordship on the Auchterarder case. _Edinburgh._ 1839. The Whiggism of the Old School as exemplified by the Past History and Present Position of the Church of Scotland. _Edinburgh._ 1841. The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field. _Edinburgh_ (republished from _Witness_). 1847. First Impressions of England and its People. _Edinburgh._ 1847. Footprints of the Creator; or, the Asterolepis of Stromness. _London_, 1849. 1848. The Sites Bill and the Toleration Laws; being an Examination of the Resolutions of the Rev. Dr. Alexander of Argyle Square Chapel Congregation. _Edinburgh._ 1848. Geology of the Bass Rock (section contributed to M'Crie's _History of the Bass Rock_). _Edinburgh._ 1850. Thoughts on Education. _Edinburgh_ (republished from _Witness_.) 1852. My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, the Story of My Education (_Edinburgh_, 1854). _Popular_ edition by W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, _Edinburgh_, 1893. 1854. The Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. _Edinburgh_ (address to Royal Physical Society, 22 Nov. 1854).