all honour to make plain, as it is the theory involved which it is also my endeavour, with all honour, to refute. I shall hope for some small credit in the success of that, even if I fail in this. My authorities, whether as regards Workmen or Work, will all be found named. To Mr. Francis Darwin's three volumes of the Life and Letters, I have very special obligations, as will readily appear: if for one's psychology of grandfather and father one had respectively Miss Seward and Miss Meteyard, one had for Charles Darwin with himself—only Mr. Francis. I may remind here also how I explain in my Gifford Lectures, pp. 326, 375, and 376, that I had to forego a first intention psychologically to inquire, "not only into the life and character of Mr. Darwin himself, but into those of his father, and specially of his grandfather;" as well as that I had found it impossible there and then to do that justice properly to the theme of the Work "for which I had prepared myself." It may sometimes prevent a confusion of names if the reader start with knowing that Charles Darwin's grandfather, the Dr. Erasmus Darwin of Zoonomia and the Botanic Garden, had two sons. These were called, the one Erasmus, and the other Dr. Robert Waring. This Erasmus had an untimely death. Dr. R. W. was the father of our hero, Charles. Charles had for brother a third Erasmus; and he had also for son Mr. Francis Darwin; whose grandfather, consequently, was Dr. R. W. Darwin. |