56 FIFTY YEARS OF DARWINISM 



stricted to the leaders of the Church ; the influence 

 of the second was confined to the students of 

 science and mathematics, and was slow in pene- 

 trating even these. Nor did either of these high 

 achievements of the human intellect seriously 

 affect the religious convictions of mankind. It 

 was far otherwise with the teachings of the 

 Origin of Species ; for in all the boundless realm 

 of philosophy and science no thought has brought 

 with it so much of pain, or in the end has led to 

 so full a measure of the joy which comes of 

 intellectual effort and activity, as that doctrine 

 of Organic Evolution which will ever be asso- 

 ciated, first and foremost, with the name of 

 Charles Robert Darwin. 



