238 Luck, or Cunning ? 
said Mr. Darwin was so good, and so much less self-heeding 
than other people ; besides, he had so “ patiently ” and 
“ carefully’ accumulated “such a vast store of facts ”’ 
as no other naturalist, living or dead, had ever yet even 
tried to get together ; he was so kind to us with his, ‘‘ May 
we not believe?” and his ‘“‘ Have we any right to infer 
that the Creator?” &c. ‘‘ Of course we have not,” we 
exclaimed, almost with tears in our eyes—‘‘ not if you ask 
us in that way.” Now that we understand what it was that 
puzzled us in Mr. Darwin’s work we do not think highly 
either of the chief offender, or of the accessories after the 
fact, many of whom are trying to brazen the matter out, 
and on a smaller scale to follow his example. 
