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scrupulous honour and unbending veracity ; his intense 

 desire to be accurate even in the smallest particulars, 

 and the trouble he took to secure such accuracy ; his 

 sympathy with the struggles of younger men, and his 

 readiness to help them ; his eagerness for the establish- 

 ment of truth by whomsoever discovered ; his interest 

 up to the very last in the advancement of science ; his 

 playful humour ; his unfailing courtesy and gratitude 

 for even the smallest acts of kindness — these elements 

 of a lofty moral nature stand out conspicuously in the 

 Biography. No one can rise from the perusal of these 

 volumes without the conviction that, by making known 

 to the world at large what Darwin was as a man, as 

 well as a great original investigator, they place him on 

 a still loftier pinnacle of greatness than that to which 

 the voice of his contemporaries had already raised him. 



