CHAP. xxn. DICK'S BAKEHOUSE. 382 



The visitor to Dick's bakehouse saw the numerous 

 figures occupying the walls. Amongst them was a 

 spirited and well-executed figure of the beautiful Greek 

 boy drawing the thorn from his foot. This was over 

 the fireplace. Beside it were two figures of Egyptian 

 idols. On the side of one of the windows there was the 

 figure of an ape, excellently drawn. What Dick thought 

 of the development hypothesis may be understood from 

 his figures of the Greek boy and the ape. They could 

 be seen at the same glance from the door of the apart- 

 ment, and presented a striking contrast, quite irrecon- 

 cilable with the idea of even a remote identity. When 

 questioned on the subject, Dick humorously indicated 

 the presence of the two drawings. He pointed to them, 

 but said nothing. 



With respect to the Egyptian idols, he said of a 

 friend who had called upon him and looked at them, 

 " Perhaps he did not understand my Egyptian mytho- 

 logical divinities. Strange figures are these gods of 

 Egypt, and yet they had a hidden meaning which no one 

 nowadays rightly understands. Egypt was once the 

 first of the nations, but the glory of its palaces has gone 

 for ever. And all must perish but Truth. That alone 

 is eternal ! " 



When the weather was fine, Dick again went to the 

 fields or to the sea-shore. He was still anxious to find 

 his whole big fish. Hence he continued to dig away at 

 the rocks. Towards the end of 1864, Mr. George 

 Henslow, son of the late Professor of Botany in Cam- 

 bridge, wrote a letter to Dick, asking if he could send 



