But Darwin was an evolutionista disciple of Lamarck.

He wished to make a physician out of his son in order to carry on the medical tradition of the family: Erasmus Darwin was a physician before him.

Dr. W.A. Johnston, in an article in the American Anthropologist, 1901, has marshalled a number of available facts, to sustain his thesis that Darwin was a victim of neurasthenia.

And Darwin, if he share the town's regard, Was first a doctor ere he rose a bard.

Charles Darwin was heir to a fortune, and in youth the possession of ample means prevented him from taking any deep interest in studying for a profession, although he did study medicine and, later, for the church.

Darwin and Huxley are classics, and they would not have been if they had not written good English.

" While at Edinburgh, Darwin was a member of the Plinian Society, and read a couple of papers on some observations in natural history.

The evolutionary theory, which had been in the air since Goethe, and to which Darwin was able to give an incontrovertible basis of scientific fact, profoundly influenced man's attitude to nature and to religion.

Faraday, we might have heard of, but Darwin, Huxley, Tyndall, and the rest, were names all unknown, as were also the revolutionary ideas, the conservation and correlation of forces, the substitution of evolution in the scheme of the universe for the plan of special creations.