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deepest nature, which, however, in a some- 

 what clandestine and unordered way persisted 

 in asserting itself. Now the peculiar scientific 

 character of the man, at present acquired, re- 

 mained with him to the end of his days. He 

 was always a kind of amateur in science; he 

 had not the professional touch, or routine, or 

 knowledge, though in his way he showed that 

 he knew more than any professor of Natural 

 Science in the world. But he was no trained 

 biologist, like his friend Huxley; no trained 

 botanist like his friend Hooker; no trained 

 geologist like his friend Lyell. Still he drew 

 from these friends, in the most amiable way, 

 what he needed of theirs, and supplemented 

 his own deficiencies ; he tapped them when he 

 wanted them, without having to go through 

 their professional tread-mill, with its crush- 

 ing formalism and useless lumber, from which 

 he had re-acted so strongly in the education 

 of his youth. For Science also has its ritual, 

 its ceremonies, and especially its dogmas, and 

 can become even more dogmatic than The- 

 ology. 



Darwin then had no established training for 

 his scientific work such as we see everywhere 

 at present in the schools. He was not put 

 through the prescribed curriculum by the 

 learned professor of biology; doubtless he 

 would have turned against that too, in his 



