But Livingstone was not much of a scientific theologian.
[Footnote 9: The readiness of elder brothers to advance part of their hard-won earnings, or otherwise encourage a younger brother to attend college, is a pleasant feature of family life in the humbler classes of Scotland.

The case of James Beattie, the poet, assisted by his brother David, and that of Sir James Simpson, who owed so much to his brother Alexander, will be remembered in this connection.] [Footnote 10: A very sensational and foolish reminiscence was once published of a raw country youth coming into the class with his clothes stained with grease and whitened by cotton-wool.

This was Livingstone.
The fact is, nothing could possibly have been more unlike him.

At this time Livingstone was not working at the mill; and, in regard to dress, however plainly he might be clad, he was never careless, far less offensive.] His chief work in Glasgow was the prosecution of medical study.

Of his teachers, two attracted him beyond the rest--the late Dr.Thomas Graham, the very distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Dr.Andrew Buchanan, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, his life-long and much-attached friend.