MR. GRANT ALLEN'S "CHARLES DARWIN." 261 



" His love of truth, his singleness of heart, his 

 sincerity, his earnestness, his modesty, his candour, 

 his absolute sinking of self and selfishness, — these, 

 indeed are all conspicuous to every reader on the very 

 face of every word he ever printed." 



This " conspicuous sinking of self" Is of a piece with 

 the " delightful unostentatiousness which every one must 

 have noticed" about which Mr. Allen writes on page 65. 

 Does he mean that Mr. Darwin was "ostentatiously 

 unostentatious," or that he was " unostentatiously osten- 

 tatious ?" I think we may guess from this passage who 

 it was that in the old days of the Pall Mall Gazette 

 called Mr. Darwin " a master of a certain happy 

 simplicity." 



Mr. Allen continues : — 



" Like his works themselves, they must long outlive 

 him. But his sympathetic kindliness, his ready gene- 

 rosity, the staunchness of his friendship, the width and 

 depth and breadth of his affections, the manner in 

 which ' he bore with those who blamed him unjustly 

 without blaming them again ' — these things can never 

 be so well known to any other generation of men as 

 to the three generations that walked the world with 

 him" (pp. 174, 17s). 



Again : — 



" He began early in life to collect and arrange 

 a vast encyclopsedia of facts, all finally focussed 

 with supreme skill upon the great principle he so 

 clearly perceived and so lucidly expounded. He 

 brought to bear upon the question an amount of per- 

 sonal observation, of minute experiment, of world-wide 



