CHAPTER XL 



'THHE death of Charles Darwin focussed, as it were, 

 _L into one concentrated glow the feelings of admi- 

 ration, and even reverence, which had been growing 

 stronger and stronger in the years since the " Origin of 

 Species " was published. It soon became evident that 

 a public funeral in Westminster Abbey was very generally 

 called for, and this being granted, a grave was chosen 

 in the north aisle and north-east corner of the nave, 

 north of and side by side with that of Sir John Herschel, 

 and ten or twelve feet only from that of Sir Isaac 

 Newton. On April 26, 1882, a great representative 

 host of scientists, literary men, politicians, and theolo- 

 gians assembled for the final scene. The pallbearers 

 were the Dukes of Devonshire and Argyll, the Earl of 

 Derby, Mr. J. Russell Lowell (then American Minister 

 in London), Mr. W. Spottiswoode (President of the 

 Royal Society), Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. Alfred Russel 

 Wallace, Professor Huxley, Sir John Lubbock, and 

 Canon Farrar. The Bishop of Carlisle, preaching at 

 the Abbey on the following Sunday, admitted that 

 Darwin had produced a greater change in the current ol 

 thought than any other man, and had done it by per- 



