6 MEMOlftS OF 



of charitable affiftance. In each of thofe 

 towns, his was the cheerful board of almoft 

 open-houfed hofpitality, without extrava* 

 gance or parade; deeming ever the firft 

 unjuft, the latter unmanly. Generofity, 

 \vit, and fcience, were his houfehold gods. 

 To thofe many rich prefents, which Na- 

 ture beftowed on the mind of Dr. Darwin, 

 fhe added the feducing, and often dangerous 

 gift of a highly poetic imagination ; but he 

 remembered how fatal that gift profeffion- 

 ally became to the young phyficians, Aken- 

 fide and Armftrong. Concerning them, the 

 public could not be perfuaded, that fo much 

 excellence in an ornamental fcience was 

 compatible with intenfe application to a 

 feverer ftudy ; with fuch application as it 

 held neceflary to a refponfibility, towards 

 which it might look for the fource of difeafe, 

 6n which it might lean for the ftruggle with 

 mortality. Thus, through the firfl twenty- 

 three years of his pradlice as a phyfician, 



Dr. Dar- 



