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ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long enough to see it, chiefly 

 by his own efforts, irrefx'agably established in science, inseparably 

 incoi^porated with the common thoughts of men " 



Mr. Romanes says that " while we recognise in him perhaps the 

 greatest genius and the most fertile thinker, certainly the most 

 important generaliser and one of the few most successful observers 

 in the whole history of biological science, we feel that no less great, 

 or even greater than the wonderful intellect, was the character of 



the man The genuine delight that he took in helping 



everyone in their work — often at the cost of much personal trouble 

 to himself — in throwing out numberless suggestions for others to 

 profit by, and in kindling the enthusiasm of the humblest tyro in 

 science ; this was the outcome of a great and generous heart, quite 

 as much as it was due to a desire for the advancement of science. 

 . . . On the whole, Darwin's character was chiefly marked by a 

 certain grand and cheerful simplicity, strangely and beautifully 

 united with a deep and thoughtful wisdom, which, together with 

 his illimitable kindness to others and complete forgetfulness of 

 himself, made a combination as lovable as it was venerable." 



But however beautiful the character and however admirable 

 the life of Darwin may have been ; however greatly he may 

 have added to our knowledge of all the sciences which are 

 concerned with the phenomena of life and mind, past and present, 

 with many, perhaps with most of us, his reputation is inseparably 

 interwoven with the theory to which his name has been given. 

 This theory has transformed Evolution from an hypothesis into 

 a doctrine. For Evolution and Darwinism are not synonymous. 

 Descent with modification might be imagined to take place 

 without a struggle for existence in which the fittest survive 

 by the destruction of the less fit, but without this the raising 

 of the type would be inexplicable. If the type were not raised, 

 it might still be quite true that " in the intellectual, as in the 

 material world," — 



" All changes, nought is lost ; the forms are changed, 

 And that which has been is not what it was, 

 Yet that which has been is ; — " 



And we could dispense with the theory of natural selection. 

 But whik' the forms change, the type is raised, and we cannot 

 conceive it to be thus raised by any other process than that of 

 natural selection. The evidences of descent with modification 

 may therefore be considered quite apart from the evidences of 

 the survival of the fittest, although without such survival we 

 cannot account for the evolution of the present from the past. 



