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And where his loving soul, his genius bold?

In slumber? or already sent abroad

On angels’ wings and works, as some men hold?

Or waiting Evolution’s change, unawed?

All is a mystery, as Saint Paul has told,

Saying, “Your life is hid with Christ in God.”

In a peaceful corner of the St. Andrew Chapel in Westminster Abbey, alongside memorials of Sir Humphry Davy and a few other scientists of note, stands a speaking image in marble—perhaps the most expressive representation that exists—of this wonderful man,

“To whose genius and benevolence

The world owes the blessings derived