Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ Bold text displayed as: =bold= By Gamaliel Bradford DARWIN. Illustrated. A NATURALIST OF SOULS. THE SOUL OF SAMUEL PEPYS. Illustrated. DAMAGED SOULS. Illustrated. AMERICAN PORTRAITS. Illustrated. A PROPHET OF JOY. PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN WOMEN. Illustrated. PORTRAITS OF WOMEN. Illustrated. UNION PORTRAITS. Illustrated. CONFEDERATE PORTRAITS. Illustrated. LEE THE AMERICAN. Illustrated. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK DARWIN [Illustration: _Ch. Darwin_ (signature)] DARWIN BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD WITH ILLUSTRATIONS [Illustration: Decoration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1926 COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY GAMALIEL BRADFORD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. TO MARSHALL LIVINGSTON PERRIN WHO TAUGHT ME TO WRITE AND TO THINK _On se lasse de tout sauf de comprendre_ SAINTE-BEUVE (from Virgil?) CONTENTS I. THE OBSERVER 3 II. THE THINKER 44 III. THE DISCOVERER 83 IV. THE LOSER 128 V. THE LOVER 168 VI. THE DESTROYER 208 VII. THE SCIENTIFIC SPIRIT 248 INDEX 307 ILLUSTRATIONS CHARLES DARWIN _Frontispiece_ Photograph taken in 1881 by Elliott & Fry, London, reproduced in _More Letters of Charles Darwin_ CHARLES DARWIN AS A CHILD WITH HIS SISTER CATHERINE 4 From a chalk drawing reproduced in _Emma Darwin: A Century of Family Letters_ THE BEAGLE LAID ASHORE FOR REPAIRS AT RIVER SANTA CRUZ, PATAGONIA 14 From _Life and Letters of Charles Darwin_ DOWN HOUSE FROM THE GARDEN 44 From a woodcut in _The Century Magazine_ reproduced in _Life and Letters_ FACSIMILE OF A PAGE FROM A NOTEBOOK OF 1837 88 From _Life and Letters_ THE STUDY AT DOWN 128 From a woodcut in _The Century Magazine_ reproduced in _Life and Letters_ EMMA DARWIN AT THIRTY-ONE 190 From the portrait painted by George Richmond, R.A., reproduced in _Emma Darwin_ CHARLES DARWIN ABOUT 1854 248 Photograph by Maull & Fox, reproduced in _More Letters_ DARWIN CHRONOLOGY CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN Born, Shrewsbury, February 12, 1809. At Edinburgh University, 1826. At Cambridge, 1827-1831. Absent with the Beagle, 1831-1836. Married Emma Wedgwood, January 29, 1839. Settled at Down, in Kent, 1842. ‘The Origin of Species’ published, November 24, 1859. ‘The Descent of Man’ published, February 24, 1871. Died, Down, April 19, 1882. DARWIN CHAPTER I THE OBSERVER I