' 



Fitz-Roy flew into a passion, berating the volunteer LITTLE 

 naturalist, and suggested a taste of the rope's end in JOURNEYS 

 lieu of logic. 



Darwin made no reply, and seemingly did not hear the 

 uncalled-for chidings. 



In a few hours a sailor handed him a note from Cap- 

 tain Fitz-Roy full of abject apology for having so for- 

 gotten himself. Darwin was then but twenty-two years 

 old, but the poise and patience of the young man won 

 the respect, then the admiration and finally the affec- 

 tion of every man on board that ship. This attitude of 

 kindness, patience and good will formed the strongest 

 attribute of Darwin's nature, and to these godlike 

 qualities he was heir from a royal line of ancestry. No 

 man was ever more blest more richly endowed by 

 his parents with love and intellect than Darwin. And 

 no man ever repaid the debt of love more fully all 

 that he had received he gave again. 

 Darwin is the Saint of Science.^ 



He proves the possible ; and when mankind shall have 

 evolved to a point where such men will be the rule, 

 not the exception as one in a million then and not 

 till then can we say we are a civilized people. 

 Charles Darwin was not only the greatest thinker of 

 his time (with possibly one exception), but in his 

 simplicity and earnestness, in his limpid love for truth 

 his perfect willingness to abandon his opinion if he 

 were found to be wrong in all these things he proved 

 himself the greatest man of his time. 

 Yet it is absurd to try to separate the scientist from 



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