26 THE METHOD OF DARWIN. 



processes strictly, in either case, results in 

 failure, and fidelity to them is the measure of 

 success. There is something more than merely 

 a weak analogy between the very small pro- 

 portion of successful business men and the 

 similarly small proportion of really successful 

 creative scientific men. The failures on both 

 sides are clue to the same kind of intellectual 

 errors. Nor are the principles of the scien- 

 tific method less clearly understood by success- 

 ful business men than by successful scientific 

 investigators. 



Darwin has said that the training which he 

 got on the Beagle voyage was the first real ed- 

 ucation of his mind. 1 His University course 

 at Cambridge had been mechanical. He de- 

 clared that the study of Paley's ''Evidences" 

 and "Natural Theology " gave him as much, 

 delight as did Euclid. 2 And he believed at 

 the time, and to the end of his life, that the 

 study of these works was the only part of his 

 academic course that contributed to the educa- 

 tion of his mind. He got no inspiration, and 

 very little knowledge, from his medical course 

 at Edinburgh ; one of the principal records of 

 that course is his opinion that there are no 



1 Life and Letters, Vol. I. pp. 51, 52. 



2 Ibid., p. 41. 



