text:  He was in a literary sense our brother--for he also was amongst the contributors to _Blackwood_--and will we presume take his station in that Blackwood gallery of portraits which in a century hence will possess more interest for intellectual Europe than any merely martial series of portraits or any gallery of statesmen assembled in congress except as regards one or two leaders; for defunct major-generals and secondary diplomatists when their date is past awake no more emotion than last year's advertisements or obsolete directories; whereas those who in a stormy age have swept the harps of passion of genial wit or of the wrestling and gladiatorial reason become more interesting to men when they can no longer be seen as bodily agents than even in the middle chorus of that intellectual music over which living they presided