Happy above ordinary human happiness, Charles Darwin lived himself to see the prosperous beginning of this great silent philosophical revolution. Harvey's grand discovery, it has been well said, was scoffed at for nearly a whole generation. Newton's marvellous law of gravitation was coldly received even by the gigantic intellect of Leibnitz himself. Francis Bacon, in disgrace and humiliation, could only commend his name and memory 'to foreign nations and to the next age.' It is too often so with thinkers of the first and highest order: it was not so, happily, with the gentle soul of Charles Darwin. Alone among the prophets and teachers of triumphant creeds, he saw with his own eyes the adoption of the faith he had been the first to promulgate in all its fulness by every fresh and powerful mind of the younger race that grew up around him. The Nestor of evolutionism, he had lived among two successive generations of thinkers, and over the third he ruled as king. With that crowning joy of a great, a noble, and a happy life, let us leave him here alone in his glory. INDEX. AGASSIZ Anticipations of natural selection 'Antiquity of Man' Astronomy BADEN-POWELL Bahia Bates; in Brazil; on mimicry 'Beagle,' voyage of the; Zoology of Bell, Sir C. Boucher de Perthes Brazil British Association Buffon CHAMBERS, Robert; his 'Vestiges of Creation' Colenso on the Pentateuch 'Coral Reefs' Cuvier; as a geologist; system of animals DARWIN, Charles, his ancestry; birth; birthplace; contemporaries; education; at Edinburgh University; at Cambridge; starts on the voyage of the 'Beagle'; returns to England; publishes his journal; plans 'Origin of Species'; elected to Royal Society; secretary to Geological Society; marries; publishes 'Coral Reefs'; geological observations; Monograph on Barnacles; publishes 'Origin of Species'; its success; second edition; variation of animals and plants; pangenesis; fertilisation of orchids; 'Descent of Man'; later works; last illness and death; character; place in evolutionary movement; outcome of his work DARWIN, Erasmus; his life; appearance; poems; 'Zoonomia'; 'Temple of Nature'; his marriages; on descent of man; on sexual selection Darwin, Erasmus, the younger Darwin, Robert Darwin, Robert Waring; his home De Candolle Down House, Darwin settles at Du Chaillu EARTHWORMS Edgeworth Evolution, general theory of FILHOL Fiske, Prof.; on natural selection Fitzroy, Captain Fuegians GALAPAGOS ISLANDS Galton, Francis Gaudry Geology, rise of; evolutionary aspect of Goethe; on animal origin of man Gorilla Gray, Asa