PART IV 



MODERN EVOLUTION" 

 I. Darwin and Wallace 



We have to deal with Man as a product of Evolution ; with Society as 

 a product of Evolution ; and with Moral Phenonema as products of 

 Evolution. HERBERT SPENCER. Principles of Ethics, 193. 



CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN (the second name was 

 rarely used by him) was born at Shrewsbury on the 

 1 2th February 1809. He came of a long line of 

 Lincolnshire yeomen, whose forbears spelt the name 

 variously, as Darwen, Derwent, and Darwynne, 

 perhaps deriving it from the river of kindred name. 

 His father was a kindly, prosperous doctor, of 

 sufficient scientific reputation to secure his election 

 into the Royal Society, a coveted honour more 

 easily obtained then than now. Of the more 

 famous grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, the reminder 

 suffices that both his prose and poetry were vehicles 

 of suggestive speculations on the development of 

 life-forms. Dealing with bald facts and dates 

 for clearance of what follows, it may be added 

 that Charles Darwin was educated at the Gram- 

 mar School of his native town ; that he passed 



