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feels at one with Mother Earth in all her 

 forms, and harmonizes with her spirit. His 

 letters throb with happiness, for he has found 

 his vocation, which is always in tune with his 

 talent, and also with his ambition. No more 

 Greek and Latin, no more medical lectures, no 

 more Theology, no more Papa on this free 

 Ocean! Still Darwin has expressed the 

 strongest affection for his father, who con- 

 tinued to think of him as a possible curate 

 after he had came back a new man, from his 

 regenerating voyage. The old Doctor was a 

 good obstetrician for infants, but totally unfit 

 for an adolescent, especially a genius. These 

 five years have also their culminating point 

 when Darwin saw the outlines of his theory 

 stamped upon the huge sphinx-face of Nature. 

 This vision embodied he beheld at the Gala- 

 pagos Islands, as already indicated. 



II. THEORY ELABORATED (1837-59). We 

 have now reached the period in which Darwin 

 makes explicit that evolutionary germ hither- 

 to implicit and potential. He has gradually 

 to formulate that which he has lived inwardly 

 and outwardly has lived in his own internal 

 struggles to get educated and in his external 

 experience with free Nature during his oceanic 

 voyage. Evolution as yet unborn but strug- 

 gling for birth in his Apprenticeship, is next 

 to pass into Evolution realized, evolved and 



