CHAPTER X. 



VICTORY AND REST. 



THE last eleven years of Darwin's life were spent in en- 

 forcing and developing the principles already reached, 

 and in enjoying the almost unchequered progress of the 

 revolution he had so unconsciously to himself succeeded 

 in inaugurating. 



Only one year elapsed between the publication of 

 the ' Descent of Man ' and that of its next important 

 successor, the ' Expression of the Emotions.' The occa- 

 sion of this learned and bulky treatise in itself stands 

 as an immortal proof of the conscientious way in which 

 Darwin went to work to anticipate the slightest and 

 most comparatively impertinent possible objections to 

 his main theories. Sir Charles Bell, in one of the 

 quaintly antiquated Bridgwater treatises those mar- 

 vellous monuments of sadly misplaced teleological in- 

 genuity had maintained that man was endowed with 

 sundry small facial muscles solely for the sake of ex- 

 pressing his emotions. This view was so obviously 

 opposed to the belief in the descent of man from some 

 lower form, 'that,' says Darwin, 'it was necessary for 

 me to consider it ; ' and so he did, in a lengthy work, 

 where the whole subject is exhaustively treated, and 



