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years after the publication of the Origin of Species, he 
joined the ranks of the evolutionists. 
Other works followed in quick succession. The limits 
of my paper will merely permit of a list of these,! many of 
them being well known to my hearers. His “ Fertilisation 
of Orchids ” was published in 1862 ; “ Movements of Climb- 
ing Plants” in 1865; the “Variation of Animals and 
Plants under Domestication ” in 1867 ; the “ Descent of 
Man” in 1871; the “Expression of the Emotions” in 
1872 : “ Insectivorous Plants ” in 1875 ; “ EfEects of Cross 
and Self-Fertilisation” in 1876: “Forms of Flowers” in 
1877; “The Power of Movement in Plants in” 1880; 
and “ The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the 
Action of Worms ” in 1881 . This was his last work. 
In conclusion, Ave will give Grant Allen’s statement 
of Darwin’s personal qualities and character : — “ His love 
of truth, his singleness of heart, his sincerity, his earnest- 
ness, his modesty, his candour, his absolute sinking of 
self and selfishness— these, indeed, are all conspicuous 
to every reader, on the face of every w^ord he printed. But 
his sympathetic kindliness, his ready generosity, the staunch- 
ness 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 in return,’ 
these things can never so well be known to any other 
generation of men as to the three generations who walked 
the world with him.” 
Towards younger men especially, his unremitting 
kindness was always most notew^orthy ; he spoke and 
wrote to them, not like one of the masters in Israel, but 
like a felloAV-w'orker and seeker after truth, interested 
in their interests, pleased at their successes, sympathetic 
with their failures, gentle to their mistakes. 
Thou must thyself be true, 
If thou the truth would’st teach ; 
Thy soul must overflow. 
If thou another soul would reach ; 
It needs the overflow of heart 
To give the lips full speech. 
Think truly, and thy thoughts 
Sliall a world’s famine feed ; 
Speak truly, and each word of thine 
Shall be a fruitful seed ; 
Act truly and thy life shall be 
A great and noble creed- 
— Bonar- 
