His place will be difficult, nay, impossible, to fill.

Whether as a philosopher or a divine he cannot be replaced." "We have no hesitation in saying," so wrote the editor of the _Plutorian Times_, a three-cent morning paper, which was able to take a broad or three-cent point of view of men and things, "that the loss of Dr.McTeague will be just as much felt in Europe as in America.

To Germany the news that the hand that penned 'McTeague's Shorter Exposition of the Kantian Hypothesis' has ceased to write will come with the shock of poignant anguish; while to France--" The editor left the article unfinished at that point.

After all, he was a ready writer, and he reflected that there would be time enough before actually going to press to consider from what particular angle the blow of McTeague's death would strike down the people of France.
So ran in speech and in writing, during two or three days, the requiem of Dr.McTeague.
Altogether there were more kind things said of him in the three days during which he was taken for dead, than in thirty years of his life--which seemed a pity.
And after it all, at the close of the third day, Dr.McTeague feebly opened his eyes.
But when he opened them the world had already passed on, and left him behind..