49/61 He called to mind, too, several occasions on which his father, partly by the force of reason, partly by that of tender expostulation, had exhorted him to abandon the vague and dangerous speculations to which he was prone. Some important changes in Mr.Hall's sentiments resulted from an inquiry conducted under such solemn impressions, and among these may be mentioned his renunciation of Materialism, which, he often declared, he _buried in his father's grave_." FOOTNOTES: [145] M.AD.FRANCK, "Rapport a l'Academie," Preface, p. XXI. M. |