298 GEOKGE JOHN BOMANES 1892 



(adult and foetal), apes, monkeys, baboons, and lemurs. 

 Hitherto I cannot detect (nor can Kent) any signs 

 or vestiges of follicles. But I should much like you 

 to look over some of the specimens (a few would be 

 enough), in order to see whether your trained eyes 

 would be also unable to trace any rudiments of follicles. 

 If you would care to do this, of course I should acknow- 

 ledge my obligations in a paper which I am prepar- 

 ing on the subject. 



Yours very truly, 



G. J. EOMANES. 



' Darwin, and after Darwin ' appeared in the spring 

 of 1892. 



It was a book which was written, so to speak, with 

 the writer's life-blood, it was a great burden on him 

 from the moment he commenced it, and one of his 

 greatest sorrows was his inability to finish it. 



It is curious to those who know Mr. Eomanes' mind 

 intimately to note the exceeding severity, the almost 

 harsh manner in which he treated the theological 

 questions involved in the doctrines called, for conve- 

 nience sake, ' Darwinism.' As more and more he 

 found himself yielding on the side of emotion, of 

 moral convictions, inclination, of spiritual need to 

 the relinquished faith, so much the more did he re- 

 solve to be utterly true, to face every difficulty, to 

 push no objection aside, to leave nothing unsaid to 

 be, in fact, absolutely and entirely honest. As a friend 

 after his death, speaking of this very book, said, ' It 

 was his righteousness which made him seem so hard.' 



Yet there is a ring of hope of something which 

 will one day turn to faith in the words which end the 

 book : 



