LITTLE Henslow. Darwin became known as "the man who 

 JOURNEYS walks with Henslow." Henslow taught botany, and 



took his classes on tramps afield and on barge rides 

 down the river, giving out-of-door lectures on the way. 

 This common-sense way of teaching appealed to Dar- 

 win greatly, and although he did not at Cambridge 

 take botany as a study, yet when Henslow had an out- 

 of-door class he usually managed to go along. In his 

 autobiography Darwin gives great credit to this very 

 gentle and simple soul, who, although not being great 

 as a thinker, yet could animate and arouse a pleasurable 

 interest. Henslow was once admonished by the faculty 

 for his lack of discipline, and young Darwin came near 

 getting himself into difficulty by declaring, "Professor 

 Henslow teaches his pupils in love, the others think 

 they know a better way ! ' 



The hope of his father and sisters was that Charles 

 Darwin would become a clergyman. For the army he 

 had no taste whatsoever, and at twenty-one the only 

 thing seemed to be the Church. Not that the young 

 man was filled with religious zeal far from that but 

 one must do something, you know. Up to this time he 

 had studied in a desultory way, he had also dreamed 

 and tramped the fields. He had done considerable 

 grouse shooting and had developed a little too much 

 skill in that particular line. To paraphrase Herbert 

 Spencer, to shoot fairly well is a manly accomplish- 

 ment, but to shoot too -well is evidence of an ill-spent 

 youth. Dr. Darwin was having fears that his son was 

 going to be an idle sportsman, and he was urging the 

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