LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



[OR forty years Darwin lived in the same 

 house at Down, in the same quiet, simple 

 way. Here he, lived and worked, and the 

 world gradually came to him figuratively 

 and literally. 



Gradually it dawned upon the theologians 

 that a God who could set in motion natural laws that 

 worked with beneficent and absolute regularity, was 

 just as great as if He had made everything at once and 

 then stopped. The miracle of evolution is just as sub- 

 lime as the miracle Qf Adam's deep sleep and the 

 making of a woman out of a, man's rib. 

 The faith of the scientist who sees order, regularity, 

 and unfailing law is quite as great as that of a preacher 

 who believes everything he reads in a book. The 

 scientist is a man with faith plus. 



When Darwin died in 1882, the words Darwinism and 

 infidelity were no longer synonymous. 

 The discrepancies and inconsistencies of Darwin's 

 theories were seen by him as by his critics, and he 

 was ever willing to admit the doubt. None of his 

 disciples were as ready to modify: their opinions as 

 he. "We must beware of making science dogmatic," 

 he once said to Haeckel. And at another time he said, 

 " I would feel I had gone too far were it not for Wal- 

 lace, who came to the same conclusions, quite inde- 

 pendent of me." Darwin's mind was simple and child- 

 like. He was a student, always learning, and no one 

 was too mean or poor for him to learn from. 

 QThe patience, persistency, and untiring industry of 

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