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Darwin received much abuse and much ridicule 

 for his views. Mr. James D. Hague tells in " Har- 

 per's Magazine " of a visit paid to the great scien- 

 tist, when a picture in the " Hornet " was shown ; 

 the body of a gorilla, with the head of Darwin. 

 The latter laughed and said, " The head is cleverly 

 done, but the gorilla is bad ; too much chest ; it 

 couldn't be like that." 



The " Descent of Man " shows the widest re- 

 search, and is a storehouse of most interesting 

 facts. " Sexual Selection " shows some of the 

 most remarkable provisions of nature, and is as 

 interesting as any novel. This book, like the 

 " Origin," has been translated into various lan- 

 guages. 



In 1872 " The Expression of the Emotions in 

 Man and Animals " was published. Over five 

 thousand copies were sold on the day of publica- 

 tion. It was begun at the birth of his first child, 

 thirty-three years before. He says, " I at once 

 commenced to make notes on the first dawn of the 

 various expressions which he exhibited, for I felt 

 convinced, even at this early period, that the most 

 complex and fine shades of expression must all 

 have had a gradual and natural origin." He wrote 

 to a college friend regarding this baby : " He is so 

 charming that I cannot pretend to any modesty. 

 I defy anybody to flatter us on our baby, for I defy 

 any one to say anything in its praise of which we 

 are not fully conscious. ... I had not the smallest 

 conception there was so much in a five-month 



