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give my own facts." As was said of another son of Cambridge, 

 Sir George Stokes, "He would no more have thought of disputing 

 about priority, or the authorship of an idea, than of writing a 

 report for a company promoter." Darwin's life affords a striking 

 confirmation of the truth of Hazlitt's aphorism, "Where the pursuit 

 of truth has been the habitual study of any man's life, the love of 

 truth will be his ruling passion." Great as was the intellect of 

 Darwin, his character, as Huxley wrote, was even nobler than his 

 intellect. 



A. C. SEWARD. 



BOTANY SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE, 

 March 20, 1909. 



