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Updated: June 5, 2025
It is a little curious that each of these great scientists should have been born in a house overlooking a well-known river the home of the Darwins standing on the banks of the Severn, at Shrewsbury, and that of the Wallaces a stone's throw from the waters of the romantic and beautiful Usk, of Monmouthshire. With remarkable clearness Dr.
I've met young chaps to-day I could ha' sworn to for mates of mine forty years back if I hadn't ha' been i't' churchyard spelling over their fathers' tumstuns!" "Aye. There's a many old standards gone home o' lately." "What do they call him?" "T' young chap?" "Aye." "They call him Darwin." "Dar win? I should known a Darwin. They're old standards, is Darwins.
He relates it to them for himself as he goes along, so far as he feels the need; and he draws from the domestic affections all the additional solace necessary. But then Darwins are extremely rare. Another great and admirable master of natural knowledge, Faraday, was a Sandemanian.
The world to-day seeks its rule of life in exact knowledge of man and his surroundings; its teachers, high-priests in the temple of Truth, are the Darwins, the Bunsens, the Pasteurs.
It was a bold idea of the Lichfield doctor bold, at least, for the times he lived in when Sam Johnson was held a mighty sage, and physical speculation was regarded askance as having in it a dangerous touch of the devil. But the Darwins were always a bold folk, and had the courage of their opinions more than most men.
He relates it to them for himself as he goes along, so far as he feels the need; and he draws from the domestic affections all the additional solace necessary. But then Darwins are extremely rare.
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