44 Charles Robert Darwin. 



in the quiet and still air of delightful studies ! The only 

 serious deduction was a recui'vciit and ])rotnicted nausea, 

 by which a man of ordinary uill would have been remanded 

 to a life of useless idleness. An ample fortune left him 

 free from all professional and business cares and anxieties, 

 and pennitted him to give himself up entirely to the pur- 

 suit of seientitic fact and law. When Haeckel visited him 

 in 1SG6, he found him in the pleasant home that shielded 

 him for forty years, and near at hand the little garden where 

 the earthworms were working out his problems and the 

 climbing plants were intertwining with his thought. Both 

 porch and house were ivy-clad, and there were overarching 

 and emboAvering elms. The man himself was tall, broad- 

 shouldered, stooping a little as beneath the Atlas-weight of 

 his world-sphering brain. Clear, kindly eyes looked out 

 from under the deep-furrowed brow, and through his silvery 

 beard a quiet, gentle voice made pleasant welcome for the 

 pilgrim to his happy shrine. 



Darwin was not one of those who cannot see the forest 

 for the trees, who, 



"Viewing all things intermittently, 

 In disconnection dull and spiritless 

 Break down all grandeur," 



The parts did not obscure for him the whole. He did not 

 murder to dissect. The healthy vision of the natural man 

 enjoyed the lovely synthesis of outward things, unspoiled 

 by any peeping or analysis that was essential to his scien- 

 tific search. A worshiper he must have been, and was, — 

 a wonderer, for it is truly written, " The more thou search- 

 est the more thou shalt wonder." In the popular theology 

 he made no investment. He came of Unitarian stock, and 

 he went forward and not backward from his inherited opin- 

 ions. His favorite religious journal was our own Boston 

 Index. He wrote with perfect frankness, over his own name, 

 "I do not believe that any revelation has ever been made." 

 Since it became certain that his doctrine was to become es- 

 tablished science, the orthodox have done their best to cap- 

 ture him. But they have only had their labor for their pains. 

 " The moral must be the measure of health," says Emer- 

 son ; and by this measure Darwin can be safely tried. •' Acute 

 as were his reasoning powers," said Huxley, "vast as was 

 his knowledge, marvelous as was his tenacious industry, un- 



