14$ Charles Darwin. 



by giving publicity to views which might differ from 

 theirs, while another was that he held a man's reli- 

 gious belief should not be paraded in public print. 

 He has been called an infidel and atheist so often 

 that there is a wide-spread belief to this effect, but 

 nothing could be further from the truth. Darwin 

 was a firm believer in a First Cause. He was in 

 theory an agnostic, in practice an orthodox Christian 

 of the broadest type. Honourable in the smallest 

 things in life, thoughtful of others, doing as he would 

 be done by, sensitive for others to an extreme that 

 was often injustice to himself, kind, lovable, ready to 

 help the young, charitable, and possessed of extreme 

 modesty, such was the greatest naturalist of the 

 age, a hero of heroes, a model for all men ; and 

 when we remember that for forty years of this life 

 there was not one day without its physical suffering, 

 we can understand the true greatness of his nature. 



In February of the year 1882 Darwin was seized 

 with severe heart trouble, which continued, with 

 some intermission, until the igth of April of this 

 year, when he passed away. 



It was the desire of the family to have him rest at 

 Down, but in response to a general request from 

 nearly all the eminent men of the day they con- 

 sented to his interment in Westminster Abbey, 

 where he lies within a few feet of the tomb of Sir 

 Isaac Newton. The inscription upon the stone is as 

 follows : 



CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN, 



Born 12 February, 1809, 



Died 19 April, 1882. 



