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They give, in the most vivid manner, the history of the greatest change in the ways of working and ways of thinking ever known in the history of science or the history of philosophy. The reader will naturally turn first to the autobiography, which, like everything which Darwin has ever said of himself, is characterized by the most charming frankness and simplicity. His early school days, it seems, were marked mainly by his love for collecting and for finding the names of things-shells, beetles, stamps, and minerals, and by his passion for hunting, angling, and all manner of field sports. None of the schools to which he was sentfrom the boys' schools in Shrewsbury to the university at Cambridge-were esteemed of much value to him. Of Dr. Butler's school, which he attended for seven years, he says: "Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught except a little ancient geography and history. The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank." He used to work at chemistry in a little laboratory fitted up by his brother in the toolhouse in the garden at home, and this unprecedented taste caused his school-fellows to give him the nickname of "Gas." "I was once," says he, "publicly rebuked by the head-master, Dr. Butler, for thus wasting my time on such useless subjects; and he called me very unjustly a 'poco curante,' and as I did not understand what he meant, it seemed to me a fearful reproach." Later, in the University of Edinburgh, he found the instruction even in natural history "incredibly dull." The sole effect produced on him by the lectures in geology was "the determination never so long as I lived to read a book on geology, or in any way to study the science." Going from Edinburgh to Cambridge after two years, he abandoned the thought of becoming a physician, and prepared for the career of country clergyman. Accordingly, he says: "I read with care 'Pearson on the Creeds,' and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our creed must be fully accepted. Considering how fiercely I have been attacked by the orthodox, it seems ludicrous that I once intended to be a clergyman.' Of his three years' work at Cambridge he says: "My time was wasted, as far as the academical studies were concerned, as completely as at Edinburgh and at school. The careful study of these works (Paley's Evidences of Christianity, |