strength, knowledge acquired through many a fall, strength through many a weakness, and character through many a soil; so with the angelic soul-it falls but to rise, it loses but to regain more abundantly. Those to whom the physical life is still the happiest residence, if they keep themselves simple and pure, form sweet, wholesome, natural marriages, and are earthly representatives of the remote ideal, far more truly than any dissatisfied wanderers, straining after present impossibilities of completion. Of such is the replenishment of the world, and its virtues-patience, sobriety, constancy, kindliness, good repute. The heart warms as we think of them; they are in the earthly paradise, and with the least glow of the higher worlds shining upon them now and again, it may be in a moment of pain or an hour of trial, they are fairly well content to be where and as they are. Others there are who are in a more difficult position, yet kindle our deepest love. Imperfectly satisfied with life in the senses, more conscious of the light that glimmers through, they are strangers and sojourners, amphibious creatures of mysterious sorrows and troubled joys. They are too apt to contemn those in easier earlier stages of life, and in their turn, those well assured natural folk, firm-based on their familiar plane, are wont to regard them with a feeling half of respect, half of shrinking withdrawal, reluctance, even terror. The degradations of these two classes are represented by the many varieties of sensualists and intellectualists: the former trampling on reason, the latter on love. In a paper succeeding this we shall pass on four centuries to the beginning of our own era, and trace out what its lore affords us upon the theory of the archetypal state of man, or its rehabilitation; a fuller legacy of information than is perhaps generally supposed. CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. NEW SERIES.-No. 3. PROFESSOR OWEN, C.B., M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. How rarely, after all the opportunities that education puts before men for the advancement of science, do we find anyone sufficiently endowed with the art of acquiring that preliminary knowledge of conventional details without which no speculation, no deductions, no theoretic results are of any practical value. But when the divinely nascent master mind, thrilling with the consciousness of future greatness, has grasped the necessary rudiments of those branches of human learning and research which best apply towards the realisation of its advanced mission, and, so progressing, ultimately reaches a point where, with Nothing before, nothing behind, The footsteps of faith Tread on the seeming void, and find The rock beneath How great the glory of the man who, having arrived at this culimination of scientific attainment, is there sustained by the satisfaction that it is through his individual cultivation that permanent good is transmitted to his fellows, who, had it not been for his labours, might have failed ever to discover such benefits for themselves! These sentiments apply in a great and peculiar manner to him whose portrait adorns this number of the MAGAZINE, the third member of that triad of scientific naturalists which numbers Linneus and Cuvier as its two other members. Richard Owen is the youngest son of Richard Owen, Esq., of Fulmer Place, Bucks; he was born at Lancaster on the 20th July, in the year 1804. His early years were devoted to the ordinary studies of youth at the grammar school of his native town, where he was contemporary with Whewell, and in 1824 he passed his matriculation at the University of Edinburgh, where he attended the anatomical |