“I believe in God and I believe in the devil, but I don’t fear either.”
Peace took his standpoint on this that “man was the creature of circumstances,” and supported his argument by quoting authorities on the subject.
From his youth upwards he had been fond of curiosities.
He regularly visited the Museum, and as each addition was made to it he inspected the new object of interest with care. Anything with carving upon it came in for a large share of his attention.
But he revelled among the models most, and if there was one branch more than another in which he excelled it was the making of models of cathedrals and monuments in cardboad, which he embossed and traced with a variety of patterns.
There is one at the present time in Sheffield—a memento of the deaths of four members of his family.
It is about a yard in height, and made of cardboard, the outlines of the embossed work on it being traced with silver.
It represents a monument after an ecclesiastical design, like the main turret in Gloucester Cathedral, and has every pinnacle cut as cleanly as though carved in ivory.
It is mounted on a slab, approached on all four sides by steps—these and the slab being covered with black velvet.
There are four tablets sunk in the lower squares of the monument, one on each side, and on these are placed the names of the relatives deceased.