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more fortunate, than Charles Darwin. He found a 

 great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, and 

 ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to 

 see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragably esta- 

 blished in science, inseparably incorporated with the 

 common thoughts of men, and only hated and feared 

 by those who would revile, but dare not. What shall 

 a man desire more than this 145 ? * 



More than a quarter of a century has passed since 

 these words were written. How during that period 

 the influence of Darwin's writings on human thought 

 has grown, in an accelerated ratio, will be seen by 

 anyone who will turn the pages of the memorial 

 volume Darwin and Modern Science published 

 fifty years after the Origin of Species. Therein, not 

 only zoologists, botanists and geologists, but physicists, 

 chemists, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, 

 philologists, historians and even politicians and theo- 

 logians are found testifying to the important part 

 which Darwin's great work has played, in revolution- 

 ising ideas and moulding thought in connexion with 

 all branches of knowledge and speculation. 



