Lect. I.] CHARLES DARWIN. 5 



2. Tlie Palaeontologists. These study the fossil re- 

 mains of the extinct forms, and their loast distribution. 



3. The Embryologists. These men are working out the 

 development of this or that type, following it through 

 the various stages of the history of its life. 



These three divisions of the swarm of l^iological bees 

 are rifling the treasures of this planet, " which pillage 

 they with merry march bring home." They are all 

 Darwinians, to a man ; and they scout the " lazy, yawn- 

 ing drone " who eats of their honey, buzzing the while 

 dissatisfaction at their work and their song. 



This seems, in the ears of many, to be a "new" song, 

 but it is, indeed, the old song spoken of by that fine 

 old eastern naturalist — the much-suffering Job. 



Who the morning stars of science were, we know 

 not ; the voice of one who lately spoke to us, in his 

 wisdom, of living creatures, vegetable and animal, is, to 

 our sorrow, now silent. 



There is a growing consensus, or harmony, amongst the 

 three main divisions of the workers, who are now begin- 

 ning to understand each other. This has taken time, for 

 the harmony was not, at first, in the mind of the 

 workers, but in Nature herself; they were working 

 apart — each group apart, and each labourer apart ; but 

 the zoological scouts, the earth-diggers, and the miners 

 of the organisms, all these work well together now. 



I think that he who digs down, so as to see Nature, 

 alone, at her work, in the (figuratively) lower parts of 



