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himself and his vocation, through his voyage 

 as naturalist on the Beagle. 



Second is the period of elaboration from 

 his germinal point of view, which view he 

 brings back with him as his instinctive yet 

 creative idea ; this is what is now to clothe it- 

 self with facts of organic life. 



Third is the period in which he seeks to 

 make his principle universal, applying it gen- 

 erally to animate existence. Thus he passes 

 from the implicit time of acquisition to the ex- 

 plicit discovery of his principle, which he 

 finally applies in many ways. 



Here it may be noted that Darwin's indi- 

 vidual career can well be regarded as a typical 

 life ; it has in it the idea and the movement of 

 universal Biography, though following its par- 

 ticular lines and character. We may deem 

 him a special manifestation of the universal 

 man in a very unique and exalted way: in a 

 way which becomes an exemplar of all com- 

 pleted lives, like those of Lincoln and Goethe 

 for instance. Not a broken inperfect life con- 

 sisting of scattered fragments is Darwin's; 

 it has a unity and a process which connect it 

 with the All-Life, yea with the All-Self, of 

 which it is an incarnation and a reflection. 



In this sense it will be worth while to study 

 Darwin's biographical stages with some at- 

 tention. 



