Monthly." And it is good to remember that the faith 

 of Youmans w^as not without its reward. He lived to 

 see his periodical grow^ from a confessed failure — a 

 bill of expense that took his monthly salary to maintain 

 — to a paying property that made its owner passing 

 rich. Gray, too, outlived the charge of infidelity, and 

 was not forced to resign his position as Professor at 

 Harvard, as was freely prophesied he would. 

 As for Darwin himself he stood the storm of misun- 

 derstanding and abuse without resentment or scorn. 

 *' Truth must fight its way," he said, " and this gaunt- 

 let of criticism is all for the best. ^A^hat is true in my 

 book will survive, and that w^hich is error w^ill be blown 

 away as chaff." He was neither exalted by praise nor 

 cast down by censure. For Huxley, Lyell, Hooker, 

 Spencer, Wallace and Asa Gray he had a great and 

 profound love — what they said affected him deeply, 

 and their steadfast kindness at times touched him to 

 tears. For the great, seething, outside world that had 

 not thought along abstruse scientific lines, and could 

 not, he cared little. "How can we expect them to see 

 as we do," he wrote to Gray — "it has taken me thirty 

 years of toil and research to come to these conclusions. 

 To have the unthinking masses accept all I say w^ould 

 be calamity. This opposition is a winnow^ing success, 

 and all a part of the Law of Evolution that works for 

 good." 



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