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planation of the Universe in terms of 

 gravitation, and saw that Physics was the 

 science of motion : not of the man, who 

 discovered and defined the true evolutionary 

 process, and laid the foundation of natural 

 history by zoological collections and com- 

 parative anatomy : not of the man, to whom, 

 through the medium of the Schoolmen his 

 disciples, Europe owes its intellectual resur- 

 rection, and any philosophical education 

 that it possesses ; for since Ockam, men 

 have pulled down Aristotle's Parthenon to 

 build their little barbarous huts : not, I say, 

 of the true deity, the Incarnation of Science : 

 but of Darwin 



And what was Darwin ? 

 As a man, Darwin possessed a personal 

 charm and kindly geniality that make 

 us all his friends : and as an industrious 

 accumulator of material in the field of 

 natural history, serving to disprove his own 



