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his afrcctions, ami In; loves it, with a lovo surpassing,' that, of 

 woman. Wc do not claim lor the whole bod}' of s<i(;ntili(: 

 men such singlc-mindedncss of purpose, but we do claim 

 that the tendency of scientific investigation is to develop 

 these higher and better faculties of man. What more com- 

 pletely rounded character can be fouiul that was embodied 

 in him whose recent death has carried a sense of irreparable 

 loss to the heart of the whole civili/.ed world. In after ages 

 when the world makes up its roll of great and perfect men, 

 the name of Charles Robert Darwin will be found high 

 on the list. Tndilferent to the scoffs and jeers of his detrac- 

 tors, he ke{)t his eye single to the eternal vei'ity of Nature. 

 With that he was content, and in it he found his all-sufhcient 

 reward. 



And when a few days ago he was carried to his last rest- 

 ing place in the mausoleum of England's great dead, and 

 placed by the side of her immortal Newton, science might 

 justly consider that her hour of triumph had come, and that 

 she had won the recognition she claims. That the man 

 whose theory on its first promulgation was considered a by- 

 word of reproach, should have his name mentioned with 

 reverence, and his greatness and worth acknowledged from 

 places which denounced him but twenty years ago, is a 

 spectacle which is without a parallel in the history of 

 science. 



It may be truly said of him. as one of our poets has said 

 of our beloved Wyman. that il was his high [>rivilcge — 



" To feel mysterious Nature ever new. 

 To touch, if not to grasp, her erniless clew. 

 And learn by each discovery how to wait; 

 To widen knowledge and escape the praise 

 Wisely to teach, because more wise to learn ; 

 To toil for science, not to draw men's ga/c. 

 But for her lore of self-denial stern ; 

 That such a nuin could spring from our decays. 

 Fans the soul's nobler faith until it burn." 



