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give my own facts.” As was said of another son of Cambridge, 
Sir George Stokes, “He would no more have thought of disputing 
about priority, or the authorship of an idea, than of writing a 
report for a company promoter.” Darwin’s life affords a striking 
confirmation of the truth of Hazlitt’s aphorism, “Where the pursuit 
of truth has been the habitual study of any man’s life, the love of 
truth will be his ruling passion.” Great as was the intellect of 
Darwin, his character, as Huxley wrote, was even nobler than his 
intellect. 
A. C. SEWARD. 
Botany Sonoon, CAMBRIDGE, 
March 20, 1909. 
