176 CHARLES DARWIN 



tivity of all truly great minds, and when he died, 

 thousands upon thousands who had never beheld his 

 serene features and his fatherly eyes felt they had lost 

 indeed a personal friend. 



Greatness is not always joined with gentleness : in 

 Charles Darwin's case, by universal consent of all who 

 knew him, ' an intellect which had no superior ' was 

 wedded to ' a character even nobler than the intellect.' 



