262 LIFE OF SIR JOHN LUBBOCK 



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don't take care of have no scent, colour, nor 

 honey. It seems to me that it is likelier that the 

 flowers which have no scent, colour, nor honey, 

 don't get any attention from the bees. But the 

 man really knows so much about it, and has tried 

 so many pretty experiments, that he makes me 

 miserable." 



Ruskin's whole attitude towards the men of 

 the Darwinian school might be described as that 

 of a man who said that " all truth is beauty," 

 opposed to men who said that "all beauty is 

 truth." He would define truth in terms of 

 beauty ; they, beauty in terms of truth. But 

 beneath their differences there was a warmth of 

 personal affection between him and Sir John. 

 The gentleness of each must appeal to the other, 

 and again, despite their differences, they had a 

 mutual appreciation. Sir John speaks delightedly 

 of Ruskin's description of the grape hyacinth as 

 " a cluster of grapes and a hive of honey distilled 

 and compressed together into one small boss of 

 celled and beaded blue." Elsewhere Sir John 

 writes of Mr. Ruskin : " He was a man of singular 

 charm." 



Nevertheless, for all the warmth of the in- 

 vitation, much to the credit both of proposed 

 host and guest, who had known how to differ 

 from each other acutely, without rancour, I do 

 not think that Sir John found time to accept it. 

 His days, indeed, are fully accounted for. 



For their autumn holiday they took Bam- 

 brough Castle, and were fortunate in having Mr. 

 Clark, the great authority on English Castles, as 

 a guest. He made Bambrough his headquarters 



