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, [17], [33]
Anticipations of natural selection, [81]
'Antiquity of Man,' [120]
Astronomy, [15]
BADEN-POWELL, [78]
Bahia, [43]
Bates, [18]; in Brazil, [79]; on mimicry, [117]
'Beagle,' voyage of the, [38]; Zoology of, [59]
Bell, Sir C, [155]
Boucher de Perthes, [120]
Brazil, [43]
British Association, [118]
Buffon, [7]
CHAMBERS, Robert, [18]; his 'Vestiges of Creation,' [70]
Colenso on the Pentateuch, [121]
'Coral Reefs,' [68]
Cuvier, [12]; as a geologist, [13]; system of animals, [63]
DARWIN, Charles, his ancestry, [20]; birth, [27]; birthplace, [31];
contemporaries, [33]; education, [34]; at Edinburgh University, ib.;
at Cambridge, [35]; starts on the voyage of the 'Beagle,' [38]; returns to
England, [58]; publishes his journal, [59]; plans 'Origin of Species,' [60];
elected to Royal Society, [64]; secretary to Geological Society, [64];
marries, ib.; publishes 'Coral Reefs,' [68]; geological
observations, [76]; Monograph on Barnacles, ib.; publishes 'Origin
of Species,' [86]; its success, [112]; second edition, [114]; variation of
animals and plants, [125]; pangenesis, [126]; fertilisation of orchids, [127];
'Descent of Man,' [132]; later works, [155]; last illness and death, [173];
character, [174]; place in evolutionary movement, [177]; outcome of his work,
[192].
DARWIN, Erasmus, [10]; his life, [20]; appearance, [21]; poems, ib.;
'Zoonomia', [21]; 'Temple of Nature,' [25]; his marriages, [25]; on descent of
man, [133]; on sexual selection, [146]
Darwin, Erasmus, the younger, [34]
Darwin, Robert, [20]
Darwin, Robert Waring, [25], [26]; his home, [31]
De Candolle, [63]
Down House, Darwin settles at, [65]
Du Chaillu, [134]
EARTHWORMS, [66], [168]
Edgeworth, [25]
Evolution, general theory of, [177]
FILHOL, [168]
Fiske, Prof., [58]; on natural selection, [130]
Fitzroy, Captain, [38]
Fuegians, [51]
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, [52]
Galton, Francis, [27]
Gaudry, [168]
Geology, rise of, [13]; evolutionary aspect of, [180]
Goethe, [9], [12]; on animal origin of man, [133]
Gorilla, [134]
Gray, Asa, [78], [124]
HAECKEL, letter to, [67]; 'History of Creation,' [124]; on sexual selection, [151]
Henslow, Prof., [35]; recommends Darwin to Capt. Fitzroy, [38]; at Oxford, [118]
Herbert, Dean, [18]
Herschel, Sir Wm., [15]
Holland, Sir Henry, [27]
Hooker, Sir Joseph, [74]; on catasetum, [78]; accepts Darwinism, [117];
publishes his 'Flora of Australia,' ib.
Horner, Leonard, [17]
Humboldt, [33]
Huxley, Prof., lecture at Royal Institution, [117]; 'Man's Place in
Nature,' [122]; on coming of age of 'Origin of Species,' [166]
JUSSIEU, [63]
KANT, nebular hypothesis, [15]
Knight's law, [159]
Kölreuter, [159]
LAMARCK, [10]; Darwin's reading of, [47]; on descent of man, [133]
Laplace, nebular hypothesis, [15]
Lecoq, [18]
Linnæus, [6]; his artificial system, [63]
Lyell, [14], [64]; 'Principles of Geology,' [69]; extract from letters, [78];
anticipations of natural selection, [99]; slow acceptance of Darwinism,
[119]; 'Antiquity of Man,' [120]
MALTHUS, [15]; influence on Darwin, [50], [67], [74], [94]
Matthew, Patrick, [18]; extracts from, [82]
Mimicry, [79]
Monte Video, Darwin at, [46]
Mould, formation of, [66]
Mount, the, [31]
Müller, Fritz, [124]
Müller, Hermann, [124]
Murchison, [14]
'NATURALIST on the Amazons,' [79]
'Naturalist's Voyage round the World' published, [59]
Natural system, [63]
Nebular hypothesis, [15], [179]
New Zealand, Darwin at, [54]
OKEN, [17]
'Origin of Species,' first planned, [60]; projected, [78]; published, [86];
analysis of, [89]; its success, [112]; second edition, [114]
Owen, Sir R., [33], [59]; on types, [78]
PANGENESIS, [126]
'Philosophie Zoologique,' [12]
Population, Malthus's essay on, [16], [51]
Powell, Baden-, [78]
'Physiological Units,' [126]
Psychology, evolution in, [183]
RAFINESQUE, [69]
Rio Janeiro, Darwin at, [45]
ST. HILAIRE, Geoffroy, [9]; the younger, [77]
St. Paul's Rocks, [43]
Sexual selection, first glimpse of, [45]; Darwin's theory of, [144]
Smith, William, [13]
Sociology, [183]
Spencer, Herbert, [17]; on 'Vestiges of Creation,' [72]; essay in the
'Leader,' [77]; 'Principles of Psychology,' ib.; essay in
'Westminster Review,' [84]; extracts from 'Leader' essay, [88]; accepts
Darwin's theory, [118]; 'Principles of Biology,' ib.; 'Physiological
Units,' [126]; theory of evolution, [191]
Sprengel, [103], [158]
THOMPSON, Allen, [163]
Treviranus, [17]
Tucutuco, [47]
Tyndall, Prof., [163]
'VESTIGES of Creation,' [18]; criticism of, [70]
Von Baer, [18]
Von Buch, [18]
WALLACE, Alfred Russel, [18]; goes to Brazil, [79]; publishes his travels, [80];
in Malay archipelago, ib.; discovers natural selection, ib.;
paper at Linnean Society, [81]; on sexual selection, [153]
Wedgwood, Emma, [65]
Wedgwood, Hensleigh, [27]
Wedgwood, Josiah, [27], [28]
Wedgwood, Susannah, [27]
Wells, Dr., anticipates natural selection, [81]
White, Gilbert, on worms, [169]
Wollaston, [18]
Worms, action of, [66], [168]
Wright, Chauncey, [124]
'ZOONOMIA,' Erasmus Darwin's, [22]