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Yet, with each fresh manifestation of Darwin's in- 

 exhaustible resources, on the other hand, the opposition 

 to his principles grew feebler and feebler, and the 

 universality of their acceptance more and more pro- 

 nounced, till at last, among biologists at least, not to be 

 a Darwinian was equivalent to being hopelessly left 

 behind by the general onward movement of the time. 

 In 1874 Tyndall delivered his famous address at the 

 Belfast meeting of the British Association ; and in 1877, 

 from the same presidential chair at Plymouth, Allen 

 Thomson, long reputed a doubtful waverer, enforced his 

 cordial adhesion to the Darwinian principles by his 

 inaugural discourse on ' The Development of the Forms 

 of Animal Life.' A new generation of active workers, 

 trained up from the first in the evolutionary school, like 

 Romanes, Ray Lankester, Thistleton Dyer, Balfour, 

 Sully, and Moggridge, had now risen gradually around 

 the great master ; and in every direction he could see 

 the seed he had himself planted being watered and 

 nourished in fresh soil by a hundred ardent and 

 enthusiastic young disciples. Even in France, ever 

 irresponsive to the touch of new ideas of alien origin, 

 Colonel Moulinie's admirable and sympathetic transla- 

 tions were beginning to win over to the evolutionary 

 creed many rising workers ; while in Germany, Victor 

 Carus's excellent versions had from the very first brought 

 in the enthusiastic Teutonic biologists with a congenial 

 ' swannery ' to the camp of the Darwinians. Corre- 

 spondents from every part of the world kept pressing 

 fresh facts and fresh applications upon the founder of 

 the faith ; and Darwin saw his own work so fast being 

 taken out of his hands by specialist disciples that he 



