Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin” 223 
He proceeds to trust himself thus :— 
“ 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 con- 
spicuous 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 unostenta- 
tious,” or that he was “ unosténtatiously ostentatious ”’ ? 
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 generosity, 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, 175). 
Again :— 
“He began early in life to collect and arrange a vast 
encyclopedia 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 personal observation, of minute experiment, of 
world-wide book knowledge, of universal scientific ability, 
such as never, perhaps, was lavished by any other man upon 
any other department of study. His conspicuous and 
beautiful love of truth, his unflinching candour, his trans- 
parent fearlessness and honesty of purpose, his childlike 
simplicity, his modesty of demeanour, his charming manner, 
his affectionate disposition, his kindliness to‘friends, his 
