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divine activity through all time. But the battle had 
by no means subsided when one day came the sad 
news that Darwin’s heart, so long feeble, so serious a 
hindrance to his work, had beaten its last on April 
19, 1882. 
His own people wished to bury Darwin quietly at 
his home in Down, but Darwin now belonged to the 
nation. A petition signed by many public men was 
sent to the Dean of Westminster, asking that his body 
might be granted burial in the Abbey. Probably no 
greater honor can come to man to-day, and fortunately © 
Dean Bradbury /was broad-minded enough to acqui- }— 
esce. So it came to pass that the church that had so 
long believed him her enemy, that had first so bitterly 
fought him, came at length to see that he added a 
new dignity and worth to her faith, and took him to 
her bosom. Darwin’s body lies buried in the Abbey. 
In all the glorious company of immortal dead whose 
earthly frames are gathered in England’s great mauso- 
leum, there is no other one who has done so much to 
modify the mind of thinking man. 
