Chapter 14

The two rallied to their father gallantly; and, after all, he spent a dignified old age. Having retired from the British Museum, he produced a little aftermath of literature. The great public had forgotten him, but the courtliness of his "Musings of a Pensioner" procured him some circulation among elderly and educated audiences. And he found a new spiritual consolation. _Anima naturaliter Anglicana_, he had never been hostile to the Established Church; and, when he criticized her worldliness and occasional inhumani…