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HUMBOLDT LIBRARY 



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Popular Science Literature. 



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April, 1883. (12 Numbers). 



DARWIN AUD HUMBOLDT: 



THEIR LIVES AND WORK. 



CHARLES DARWIN. 



I. INTRODUCTORY NOTICE. 



BY PROF. T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S. 



Very few, even among those who 

 have taken the keenest interest in the 

 progress of the revolution in natural 

 knowledge set afoot by the publica- 

 tion of the Origin of Species, and 

 who have watched, not without as- 

 tonishment, the rapid and complete 

 change which has been effected both 

 inside and outside the boundaries of 

 the scientific world in the attitude of 

 men's minds toward the doctrines 

 which are expounded in that great 

 work, can have been pi-epared for the 

 extraordinary manifestation of affec- 

 tionate regard for the man, and of 

 profound reverence for the philoso- 

 pher, which followed the announce- 

 ment of the death of Mr. Darwin. 



Not only in these islands, where so 

 many have felt the fascination of 

 personal contact with an intellect 

 which had no superior, and with a 

 character which was even nobler than 

 the intellect ; but, in all parts of the 

 civilized world, it would seem that 

 those whose business it is to feel the 

 pulse of nations and to know what 

 interests the masses of mankind, were 

 well aware that thousands of their 

 readers would think the world the 

 poorer for Darwin's death, and would 

 dwell with eager interest upon every 

 incident of his history. In France, 

 in Germany, in Austro-Hungary, in 

 Italy, in the United States, writers of 

 all shades of opinion, for once unani- 

 mous, have paid a willing tribute to 

 the worth of our great countryman, 

 ignored in life by the official represen- 

 tatives of the kingdom, but laid in 



