PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION (1892).
NOTE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
TABLE OF CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. The Darwins 1 II.
CHAPTER I. THE DARWINS.
CHAPTER II. AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER III. RELIGION.
CHAPTER IV. REMINISCENCES OF MY FATHER'S EVERYDAY LIFE.
CHAPTER V. CAMBRIDGE LIFE. THE APPOINTMENT TO THE 'BEAGLE.'
CHAPTER VI. THE VOYAGE.
CHAPTER VII. LONDON AND CAMBRIDGE. 1836-1842.
CHAPTER VIII. LIFE AT DOWN. 1842-1854.
CHAPTER IX. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.'
CHAPTER X. THE GROWTH OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' 1843-1858.
CHAPTER XI. THE WRITING OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.'
CHAPTER XII. THE PUBLICATION OF THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.'
CHAPTER XIII. THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES' REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS ADHESIONS AND ATTACKS.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. 1861 1871.
CHAPTER XV. MISCELLANEA. REVIVAL OF GEOLOGICAL WORK. THE VIVISECTION QUESTION. HONOURS.
BOTANICAL WORK.
CHAPTER XVI. FERTILISATION OF FLOWERS.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION.
APPENDIX I. THE FUNERAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
APPENDIX II.
INDEX.
Title: Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters
Author: Charles Darwin
Editor: Sir Francis Darwin
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CHARLES DARWIN:
HIS LIFE TOLD IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
CHAPTER, AND IN A SELECTED SERIES
OF HIS PUBLISHED LETTERS.
EDITED BY HIS SON, FRANCIS DARWIN, F.R.S.
WITH A PORTRAIT.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1908.
PRINTED BY
WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
LONDON AND BECCLES.
TO DR. HOLLAND, ST. MORITZ.
13th July, 1892.
Dear Holland,
This book is associated in my mind with St. Moritz (where I worked at it), and therefore with you.
I inscribe your name on it, not only in token of my remembrance of your many acts of friendship, but also as a sign of my respect for one who lives a difficult life well.
Yours gratefully,
Francis Darwin.
"For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; ... as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to reconsider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture. So I thought my nature had a kind of familiarity and relationship with Truth."—Bacon. (Proem to the Interpretatio NaturÆ.)
