3-039-155 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Statue of Sir David Brewster, Edinburgh University, 1871. 'A statue of the late Sir David Brewster, the eminent natural philosopher...The sculptor is Mr. Brodie, who has produced a fine work of art, and a faithful likeness of the venerable sage..."we can look back upon the life and work of our late Principal with rejoicing on account of what he did, not for the University only, but for the wider interests of science and literature; reflecting with admiration on his important researches and discoveries in science, remembering...the bright example of his Christian life, which affords a practical refutation of the vulgar error that an ardent and uncompromising pursuit of scientific truth is incompatible with steadfast faith or with the cultivation of personal religion. He died full of years and honours: and he has bequeathed to us an example from which we and our children may learn how a man of humble origin but sterling probity, without the aids of wealth and family influence, may rise to the highest academic and social distinction by the active cultivation and use of those intellectual powers with which God has endowed him for his own advancement in life and for the extension and development of human knowledge".' From "Illustrated London News", 1871.