88 CHARLES DARWIN. 



fearlessness and honesty of purpose, his child-like simplicity, his 

 affectionate disposition, his modesty of demeanour, his kindliness, 

 his courtesy to opponents, kindled in the minds of men of science 

 everywhere a contagious enthusiasm, only equalled, perhaps, 

 among the disciples of Socrates.'^ 



On the 26th of April, 1882, he was laid to rest in Westminster 

 Abbey, close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton — a worthy resting- 

 place, by the side of the man he equalled ! 



The Dukes of Devonshire and Argyll, Russell Lowell, Lord 

 Derby, Spottiswoode, Hooker, Wallace, Huxley, Lubbock, and 

 Farrar were his pall-bearers. The anthem composed for the occa- 

 sion, " Happy is the man that findeth wisdom," was singularly 

 appropriate, and not less so was that sung at the grave of him 

 around whose head so many storms had sounded, '' His body is 

 buried in peace." 



After his burial a hue and cry was raised by some self-con- 

 stituted guardians of ' truth,' because, said they, he wrote, " I do 

 not believe that any Revelation has ever been made." They put 

 the full stop, and then said that " he discredited the Scriptures of 

 Almighty God." What was it that he did say? "I do not 

 believe that any Revelation has ever been made as to the iiature 

 of the future life." A very different sentence from that imputed 

 to him by his impertinent critics I You need only go to ' In 

 Memoriam ' to find very similar words in reference to the raising 

 of Lazarus. When the Duke of Argyll asked him, shortly before 

 his death, if he did not think the discoveries he had made could 

 only be understood as the effect and expression of initid^ he looked 

 at the Duke for a moment, and said, " Well, it often comes over 

 me with overpowering force, but at other times it seems to drop " 

 — words only showing us how to the greatest minds there comes a 

 veil of mystery hiding the truths behind it, the faith of such minds 

 being all the stronger and surer for the darkness, when God lifts a 

 corner of the veil and reveals Himself Depend on it, Darwin 

 pondered during his long life the problem of a future one more 

 anxiously than many who loudly declaim him because he was not 

 afraid to say he could not solve it. Does he not say in so many 

 words, " A man may be an ardent Theist and also an Evolutionist. 

 Kingsley and Asa Gray were both. I have never, in my extremest 



