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divine activity through all time. But the battle had 

 by no means subsided when one day came the sad 

 news that Darwin's heart, so long feeble, so serious a 

 hindrance to his work, had beaten its last on April 

 19, 1882. 



His own people wished to bury Darwin quietly at 

 his home in Down, but Darwin now belonged to the 

 nation. A petition signed by many public men was 

 sent to the Dean of Westminster, asking that his body 

 might be granted burial in the Abbey. Probably no 

 greater honor can come to man to-day, and fortunately 

 Dean Bradbury was broad-minded enough to acqui- 

 esce. So it came to pass that the church that had so 

 long believed him her enemy, that had first so bitterly 

 fought him, came at length to see that he added a 

 new dignity and worth to her faith, and took him to 

 her bosom. Darwin's body lies buried in the Abbey. 



In all the glorious company of immortal dead whose 

 earthly frames are gathered in England's great mauso- 

 leum, there is no other one who has done so much to 

 modify the mind of thinking man. 



