friends, and rarer still his peers Alone he stood, for genius lives alone. The world crashed round him ; and his soul, called back From those "strange seas" whereon it voyaged still, Faced humble tasks to shape and Empire's track One hair's breadth nearer the Eternal Will. He died. But sure that spirit pure and high By death has made his own the immortal prize For always, in the Everlasting's eye, The grandest virtue is self-sacrifice." His brother Charles was a prominent psychiatrist and missionary to east Asia. References External links Scientific papers ...including an Adams prize essay...by the late Samuel Bruce McLaren at Niels Bohr Library Book Catalog Photograph available at; 1876 births 1916 deaths People educated at Brighton Grammar School Royal Engineers officers Mathematicians from Melbourne British Army personnel of World War I British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne Military personnel from Melbourne Academics of University College Bristol University of Melbourne alumni Australian people of Scottish descent Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Birmingham British expatriates in Japan