ABSTRACT
In spite of Charles Darwin’s long periods of physical distress, and apart from the anxiety over sick children and the grief caused by the death of two children, conceivably there was never a more closely knit or happier family on this earth. The children were keen, eager-eyed, and, intelligently trained to become sane and intelligent members of society. Darwin himself was more than once the sport of fate; it is hardly too much to say that he became a scientist in spite of his germplasm. Darwin could find time to carry on long investigations in many fields of science and to father his children as he did, because he had a great respect for time and never forgot how precious it was. The adulation paid Darwin must have been enough to turn the heads of a dozen ordinary men and so elevate them in their own estimate of their importance as to make them more human and less humane.
