In his presence, young men learned to respect themselves; and out of the root of self-respect there grew up the manly virtues.

"His very presence," says his biographer, "seemed to create a new spring of health and vigour within them, and to give to life an interest and elevation which remained with them long after they had left him; and dwelt so habitually in their thoughts as a living image, that, when death had taken him away, the bond appeared to be still unbroken, and the sense of separation almost lost in the still deeper sense of a life and a Union indestructible." [123] And thus it was that Dr.Arnold trained a host of manly and noble characters, who spread the influence of his example in all parts of the world.
So also was it said of Dugald Stewart, that he breathed the love of virtue into whole generations of pupils.

"To me," says the late Lord Cockburn, "his lectures were like the opening of the heavens.

I felt that I had a soul.

His noble views, unfolded in glorious sentences, elevated me into a higher world...