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Excerpt from Memoir of Sir James David Marwick LL. D., F. R. S. E
The trend of a man's life and the formation of his character are often influenced by two circumstances, over neither of which he has much, if any, control. The one is the inheritance he derives from his ancestors, and the other relates to the scenes amidst which he spends his early years. The effect of both was very marked in the subject of this biographical sketch. He was an Orcadian; he loved the old burgh of Kirkwall, in the streets of which he played and wandered in his early years; the memories of boyhood clustered round the venerable cathedral of St. Magnus, the grim and impressive memorial of the introduction of Christianity into the Islands; he had, from both father and mother, Scandinavian blood in his veins that gave him sympathies with those wild wastes and roughly tumbling seas and he often recalled with delight the grand rock scenery, associated with so much that was daring in adventure and enchanting in legend.
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