One can say rightly that Robertson Smith was valued highly by all his students, colleagues and friends. Only his enemies tried to blemish his name, and sometimes didn’t abide by the rules of fairness. Yet Robertson Smith was able to fight back too. But on the whole, anyone who was on friendly terms with him, could say nothing else but confirm that he was a man of great intellectual abilities and eagerness in debating, curiously and lively, stimulating and compassionately. Yet he was not an armchair-worker. Rather than this he took part on life, as on his journeys to the Arabian world and his many social contacts. He always was mentally present and took in everything he could that was new to him.