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