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1883.J his Biographers and his Traducer . 
We come to the sketch of Darwin’s character and life as 
furnished by Mr. G. J. Romanes. Here we find a full and 
just tribute paid at once to the wonderful intellect, and, 
what the writer ranks as “ no less great, or even greater,” 
the charadter of the man. He proclaims it as his first duty 
“ to render some idea, not of what Darwin did, but of what 
he was.” It is impossible for us to reproduce the portrait 
of Darwin as here drawn with equal truth and beauty. We 
read that “ in him the man of Science and the philosopher 
were subordinate to the gentleman. His courteous consi- 
deration of others, which went far beyond anything that the 
ordinary usages of society require, was similarly prompted 
by his mere spontaneous instindt of benevolence. . . . No 
man ever passed away leaving behind him a greater void of 
enmity, or a depth of adoring friendship more profound.” 
All this is true, and we are happy to find it thus distinctly 
recorded. But wherefore ? For in one sense it must be 
admitted, as Buckle insisted, that what a man is is of far 
less general and permanent importance than what he does . 
Charadter is soon forgotten ; but performances, works, 
achievements, whether in the inner or the outer sphere, are 
the property of the world for ever. But the beauty and the 
grandeur of Darwin’s charadter, and the happiness of his 
life, are precious as affording the best answer to that new 
school of Ethicists who pronounce Science hostile to happi- 
ness and morality. Such persons will find that, whilst in 
Darwin incessant intellectual activity crowded out moral 
evil and superseded the necessity for a “ struggle with 
temptation,” he did not “ freeze and harden,” and his 
“ natural affedtions ” did not “ vanish.” 
Darwin was first sent, in 1825, to the University of Edin- 
burgh, then in the zenith of its reputation as a medical 
school. Here, it appears, he studied under Prof. Jameson, 
F.R.S. L. and E., F.L.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A., F.A.S., 
F.W.S., and F.H.S. (Edinburgh), Regius Professor of 
Natural History, Ledturer on Mineralogy and Keeper of the 
Museum in the University of Edinburgh, and Editor of the 
“ Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.” Under this gen- 
tleman of forty-three titles, who was severely but not unjustly 
scourged by Waterton, Darwin “does not seem to have pro- 
fited at all by whatever instruction he received ; for not only 
did it fail to awaken in him any special love for Natural 
History, but even seems to have had the contrary effedt.” 
This was, for him and for Science, a most fortunate escape. 
Had he, at the plastic age of seventeen or eighteen, attached 
himself to Jameson, he might have become a normal high 
