VIII 



CHARLES DARWIN 247 



spirit of Heraclitus and of Democritus, with results 

 which are the substance of which their specula- 

 tions were anticipatory shadows. 



The due appreciation, or even enumeration, of 

 these results is neither practicable nor desirable at 

 this moment. There is a time for all things a 

 time for glorying in our ever-extending conquests 

 over the realm of Nature, and a time for mourning 

 over the heroes who have led us to victory. 



None have fought better, and none have been 

 more fortunate, than Charles Darwin. He found 

 a great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, 

 and ridiculed by all the world ; he lived long 

 enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, 

 irrefragably established in science, inseparably 

 incorporated with the common thoughts of men, 

 and only hated and feared by those who would 

 revile, but dare not. What shall a man desire 

 more than this ? Once more the image of Socrates 

 rises unbidden, and the noble peroration of the 

 " Apology " rings in our ears as if it were Charles 

 Darwin's farewell : 



" The hour of departure has arrived, and we go 

 our ways I to die and you to live. Which is the 

 better, God only knows." 



