man who was so sure to develop very much in a future life. He had queer religious notions: did not believe in a God or in a future life: but believed in a sort of conflict between two Powers of Good and Evil. I remember showing you one of his letters. And you said it was just like Zoroaster. But he was the most _truly_ "Liberal" man I ever knew. If it were for the cause of Truth that he should be defeated, he would have _liked_ to have been defeated. And now he is dead. And we shall never see his like again. [136] See Vol. I. p. 471, _n._ [137] _Notes on Lying-in Institutions_; see above, p. 197. It was characteristic of Miss Nightingale that she entered into correspondence with Mr. Chadwick on the sanitary state of Mr. Mill's house and the climatic conditions of Provence in May. Mr. Chadwick had to put himself right in her eyes by explaining that he had not been consulted by their friend on those subjects and had never been invited by him to Avignon. V Other literary work which occupied Miss Nightingale a good deal at this time was undertaken either to help Mr. Jowett or in accordance with his advice. He had urged her to work out her notion of Divine Perfection, and her theory of the Family in relation to "sisterhoods" and other forms of association. Miss Nightingale wrote Essays accordingly on "What is the Evidence that there is a Perfect God?" on "What is the Character of God?" and on "Christian Fellowship as a Means to Progress." The gist of the latter essay may be given in a letter of an earlier date:-- (_Miss Nightingale to Benjamin Jowett._) _July_ [1870].... I think that Faraday's idea of friendship is very high: "One who will serve his companion next to his God." And when one thinks that most, nay almost all people have no idea of friendship at all except pleasant juxtaposition, it strikes one with admiration. Yet is Faraday's idea not mine. My idea of a friend is one who will and can join you in work the sole purpose of which is to serve God. Two in one, and one in God. It almost exactly answers Jesus Christ's words. And so extraordinarily blessed have I been that I have had three such friends. I can truly say that, during the 5 years that I worked with Sidney Herbert every day and nearly all day, from the moment he came into the room no other idea came in but that of doing the work with the best of our powers in the service of God. (And this tho' he was a man of the most varied and brilliant conversational genius I have ever known--far beyond Macaulay whom I also knew.) This is Heaven; and this is what makes me say "I have had my heaven."