most beneficent intention; when he led them from the external world into the still greater wonders of the internal, and traced the parts of man's moral constitution, and described the virtues in their loveliest form, and enlarged on the elevated enjoyments furnished by them; when he quoted, with glowing zest, the noblest passages of Greek and Roman literature; when he inculcated, with immense enthusiasm, the importance of civil and religious liberty, -- the students felt as if a new world were thrown open to them, and a new life kindled within them.Following the custom of his predecessor, he lectured on the sabbath evenings on the truth and excellence of Christianity, and the students of all the classes eagerly rushed to his prelections.The conversation of the youths in their social walks and visits often turned on the literary and philosophic themes which he discussed, and some of them chose to attend his lectures for four or five successive years.Among his pupils were Mr.Millar, afterwards President of the Court of Session; Archibald Maclaine, who in future years translated Mosheim's " Ecclesiastical History;" Matthew Stewart, famous for his Mathematical Tracts, and father of Dugald Stewart; and a youth, specially appreciated by Hutcheson, with a vast capacity for learning of every kind, and destined in future years to be so famous in Hutcheson's own department, -- Adam Smith, author of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments," and of " The Wealth of Nations." All of these ever spoke of Hutcheson in terms of high admiration and gratitude.
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