James Frederick Ferrier

JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER FAMOUS 8GOTS SERIES The foflotvlng Volumes are now ready THOMAS CARLYLE, By HECTOR C. MACPHEESON ALLAN RAMSAY. By OLIPHANT SMEATON HUGH MILLER. By W. KEITH LEASK JOHN KNOX. By A. TAYLOR INNES ROBERT BURNS. By GABRIEL SETOUN THE BALLADISTS. By JOHN GEDDIE RICHARD CAMERON. By Professor HERKLESS SIR JAMES Y. SIMPSON. By EVE BLANTYSE SIMPSON THOMAS CHALMERS. By Professor W. GARDEN BLAIKIE JAMES BOSWELL. By W. KEITH LEASK TOBIAS SMOLLETT, By OLTPHANT SMEATON FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, By G. W. T. OMOND THE BLACKWOOD GROUP. By SIR GEORGE - DOUGLAS NORMAN MACLEOD. By JOHN WELLWOOD SIR WALTER SCOTT. By Professor SAINTSBURY KIRKCALDY OF GRANGE. By Louts A. BARBfS ROBERT FERGUSSON. By A, B. GROSART JAMES THOMSON. By WILLIAM BAYNE MUNGO PARK. ByT, BANKS MACLACIILAN DAVID HUME. By Professor CALDEKWOOD WILLIAM DUNBAR. By OLIPHANT SMEATON SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, By Professor MORMON. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. By MARGARET MOVES BLACK THOMAS REID. By PROBESSOR CAMPBELL FRASEE POLLOK AND AYTOUN, By ROSALINE MASSON ADAM SMITH. By HECTOR C. MACPHERSON ANDREW MELVILLE. By WILLIAM MORRISON JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER. By E. S. HALDANE rr iivjuUJ - i BY E S FAMOUS PUBLISHED BY OUPHANT ANDERSON AND LONDON Tim designs ami onmiminlfi of lliis volume tire I J Mi. J ili Hi-own, and the priiUinjv iVoin I In pics. i uf Moriiaon Si C il li LhtiUctl, CONTENTS IACl INTRODUCTION 7 CHAPTER I KAIU. Y LnB, ., n CI1A1TKU II WANI l, UJAIIHIl-.-SOf iAI. LllT, IN SCOTLAND OK ui LriERARY WORK . CUAlTKK III Kitiuur. Rii DAY CHAITKK IV S AND KAITIIlIII. LOVIW S J CIIAPTlOli V DUVKLOIHKNT O-1 HWITIiiU Pllll. O iO lIY, Til 16 Ol, l AND TIIK Nuw 1 - KKHUIKK AS A CORRIWI-ONDHNT . . 72 CUAlTKR VI KICIIKMERM SYHTKM oi 1 iui.osoiiiv His ImLosoiiiicAi. WOKKH CHAITKU VII TINS Coi. Kiunmc I I, AIKAHISM MISI KLI, ANKOUS LITKHAUV WORK of UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA 15213 6 CONTENTS CHAPTER VIII PROFESSORIAL LIFE ........ 122 CHAPTER IX LIFE AT ST, ANDREWS CHAPTER X LAST DAYS ., ., , JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER INTRODUCTION MH. OMIMIANT SMKATON has asked nio to wrilo few words of preface to this little, hook. If I try, it la only because 1 uni old enough td have had the privilege of knowing tiomo of those who were moat closely associated with Kcnier. When I uat at the feel oflrofcssor Campbell Eraser in the Metaphysics classroom at Edinburgh in 1875, 1 crricru wriliii H woi-u being much road liy iw BtudcntH. The inlluoucc of Sir AVilliam Unmillon was fast crumbling in the mind of young nuin who felt mlbor than saw that much lay beyond it. We wore still jngroHscd with the controversy, waged in books which now, nlns sell for a tenth of their former prire, about the Conditioned imd the Unconditioned. We Ktill worked at Kuid, ITainiHon, and Mansel. Hut the iiUuekn of Mill on tlie one side, and of IliiTiur and Dr. Hlirliug on the other, were Hlowly ImL surely wilhdriiwiiig nur inteivnl. 1 errier hnd iintc l out a path which ueomed to lend UH in tlu direction of Jf. rnmny if we would ineupe IVbm Mill, and SlirlhiK was uvuing iiii in the same sense. It waft not merely that KerriiM-bad vrillen bodies. He bad died more than ton ywirn earlier, but liifl personality wan still inlluenee. Hchoun of bin words came to us S INTRODUCTION Grant mul Cellar. Outside the University, men like Blackwood and Makgill made us fool what a power he had been. But that was not all for it least some ofus. Mrs. Femur had re, moved to Kdinl. mrgh- - mul I endorses all that my sister Hays of her rare quality, fthu lived in a house in Torphirhun - Street, which wius the resort of those attracted, not only by the memory of her husband, but by her own great gifts. She was an old lady and an invalid. Hut though . she could not move from her chair, paralysis had not dimmed her menial power. 1 . Slus was a true daughter of Christopher North. I doubt whether I have seen her rival in quieknesH, ln r MUJ lerior I novnr saw...