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spirit of Heraclitus and of Democritus, with results 
which are the substance of which their specula- 
tions were anticipatory shadows. 
The due appreciation, or even enumeration, of 
these results is neither practicable nor desirable at 
this moment. There is a time for all things—a 
time for glorying in our ever-extending conquests 
_ over the realm of Nature, and a time for mourning 
__ over the heroes who have led us to victory. 
None have fought better, and none have been 
- more fortunate, than Charles Darwin. He found 
a great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, 
3 and ridiculed by all the world; he lived long 
enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, 
_irrefragably established in science, inseparably 
incorporated with the common thoughts of men, 
and only hated and feared by those who would 
 revile, but dare not. What shall a man desire 
more than this? Once more the image of Socrates 
rises unbidden, and the noble peroration of the 
“ Apology” rings in our ears as if it were Charles 
- Darwin’s farewell :— 
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go 
_ our ways—lI to die and you to live. Which isthe 
better, God only knows.” 
