Pope, Alexander ... "There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is but a part of virtue." Rabelais ... "Je vais quérir le grand peut-être." Scott, Walter ... "God bless you!" Tasso, Torquato ... "In manus Tuas, Domine." Wordsworth, William ... "God bless you!" Ximenes, Cardinal ... "In Te, Domine, speravi." {269} II. PAGE 136. DARWIN'S CREDO "Science and Christ have nothing to do with each other, except in as far as the habit of scientific investigation makes a man cautious about accepting any proofs. _As far as I am concerned, I do not believe that any revelation has ever been made_. With regard to a future life, every one must draw his own conclusions from vague and contradictory probabilities."--(Letter to a Jena student, dated June 5th, 1879.) "Mr. Darwin was much less reticent to myself than in his letter to Jena. He distinctly stated that, in his opinion, a vital or somatic principle, apart from the somatic energy, had no more _locus standi_ in the human than in any other races of the animal kingdom--a conclusion that seems a mere corollary of, and indeed a position tantamount with, his essential doctrine of human and bestial identity of nature and genesis."--(Dr. Robert Lewins, in the _Journal of Science_.) It may be instructive to subjoin to the above _Credo_ of Darwin those of three other eminent Victorians, whom the present generation would probably pronounce it unkind and ill-mannered to brand as atheistical or un-Christian. Let them speak for themselves:-- _Stuart Mill_: "This world is a bungled business, in which no clear-sighted man can see any signs either of wisdom or of God." _Huxley_: "Scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin." {270} _Matthew Arnold_: "The existence of God is an unverifiable hypothesis." Dr. Liddon, preaching in St. Paul's Cathedral on the Sunday after Darwin's death, devoted his matchless oratory to a eulogy in which there was not the remotest reference to the fact that the subject of it was a man who had formally repudiated not only Christianity but revealed religion. Here are the eloquent canon's opening words:-- "These reflections may naturally lead us to think of the eminent man, whose death during the past week is an event of European importance; since he is the author of nothing less than a revolution in the modern way of treating a large district of thought, while his works have shed high distinction on English science." Dr. Laing, of Cambridge University, on the other hand, expressed with refreshing candour his objections to the proposed interment of Darwin in Westminster Abbey:--