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the father, neighbor and friend. Darwin's love for truth 

 as a scientist was what lifted him out of the fog 

 of whim and prejudice and set him apart as a man. 

 Q He had no time to hate. He had no time to indulge 

 in foolish debates and struggle for rhetorical mastery 

 — he had his work to do. That statesmen like Glad- 

 stone misquoted him, and churchmen like Wilberforce 

 reviled him — these things were as naught to Darwin — 

 his face was toward the sunrising. To be able to know 

 the truth, and to state it, were vital issues — whether 

 the truth was accepted by this man or that, was quite 

 immaterial, excepting possibly to the man himself. In 

 Darw^in's nature there -was no resentment. 

 Only love is immortal — hate is a negative condition. 

 It is love that animates, beautifies, benefits, refines — 

 creates. So firmly was this truth fixed in the heart of 

 Charles Darwin, that throughout his long life the only 

 things he feared and shunned were prejudice and hate. 

 "They hinder and blind a man to truth," he said, "a 

 scientist must only love." 



►MERSON has been mentioned as the cul- 

 minating flower of seven generations of 

 New England culture. Charles Darwin 

 seems a similar culminating product. 

 Surely he showed rare judgment in the 

 selection of his grandparents. His grand- 

 father on his father's side was Dr. Erasmus Darwin, 

 a poet, a naturalist, and a physician so discerning that 

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