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Excerpt from Origines Celticae (a Fragment) And Other Contributions to the History of Britain, Vol. 1
He matriculated in 1819 at Gonville and Caius College, Cam bridge, took his degree as eleventh wrangler, and became a Fellow of the College in 1824.
Soon after this he went abroad, and travelled for some time principally in Germany, where he made the acquaintance of some of the noted men of the period. It was during this time that the sceptical tendencies of thought which have become of late years so prevalent in England were first forced upon his notice. He studied Hebrew with the view of satisfying his mind more fully upon certain points, and, after a lengthened period of most honest doubt and patient thought and investigation, his doubts were finally cleared away, and his faith in God's revealed Word from that time remained unshaken. In after life, during his long residence of twenty-eight years as Master of his College, 'his sound judgment and deep Christian feeling, ' writes Professor Cowell, 'were invaluable; he could always be relied on he never wavered in his convictions.
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