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