Not much remains to be said. The life here described would seem to have been cut short, but, as was said by a friend, 'in a short time he fulfilled a long time,'[130] and few have won for themselves more love in the home and beyond it. He left no enemy, and those who loved him and to whom his loss has left a blank and desolation of which it is not well to speak, can only be thankful for what he was and for what he is. Not indeed that one would forget those words of Dean Church quoted in the beautiful preface to his Life:[131] 'I often have a kind of waking dream: up one road, the image of a man decked and adorned as if for a triumph, carried up by rejoicing and exulting friends, who praise his goodness and achievements; and, on the other road, turned back to back to it, there is the very man himself, in sordid and squalid apparel, surrounded not by friends but by ministers of justice, and going on, while his friends are exulting, to his certain and perhaps awful judgment. That vision rises when I hear, not just and conscientious endeavours to make out a man's character, but when I hear the loose things that are said--often in kindness and love--of those beyond the grave.' But there have been men and women who have lifted the minds and the hearts of those who knew and loved them to increasing love for goodness, to increasing loftiness of ideal, and for these, whom now no praise can hurt, no blame can wound, one can but lift one's heart in ever growing thankfulness for the gifts and graces which made them what they were, and which will grow and increase in them until the Perfect Day. _Beati mundo corde, quoniam ipsi Deum videbunt._ May 23, 1895. FOOTNOTES: [68] Mr. Romanes had belonged for many years to the Aristotelian Society, and had contributed papers to the Journal of the Society. He also once belonged to the Psychological Club, which used to meet at Professor Croom Robertson's house. The other members of the club were Mr. Francis Galton, Mr. Sully, Mr. Shadworth Hodgson, Professor Edgeworth, Professor Dunstan, Mr. Edmund Gurney, Mrs. Bryant, and one or two others. [69] See _Thoughts on Religion_, p. 92. [70] The beautiful cemetery adjoining Holywell Church, Oxford. [71] Dr. Liddon died in September 1890. [72] The house which Mr. Romanes had taken was originally an almshouse. [73] The Physiological Society has a yearly meeting at Oxford. [74] Professor Victor Horsley, F.R.S., Univ. Coll. London. [75] Professor of Physiology at Oxford. [76] Professor W. Dunstan, F.R.S. [77] 'Lights of the Church and of Science.' [78] Professor Kitchen Parker, F.R.S. [79] Mr. R. Scott, F.R.S. [80] _The Colours of Animals_, by E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., International Scientific Series, vol. lxviii. [81] A beautiful terrier. [82] Two more dogs. [83] This was the last summer at Geanies. [84] Mr. E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S. [85] Psalm xxvii. [86] A pet name for his daughter. [87] He had slipped on the rocks and hurt his arm.