. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . of the Outlook, the periodical spoken of, Two impressive factsbecome clear from the study of these lists: the books selected are almost withoutexception books of spiritual liberation and of the enlargement of human interestsand privileges. The men of letters whose works appear in these lists are thosewho might have said, with Heine, Lay a sword on my coffin, for I was a soldierIn the war for the liberation of humanity. Having before us this choice selection from those with whom the pen hasbeen mightier
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . of the Outlook, the periodical spoken of, Two impressive factsbecome clear from the study of these lists: the books selected are almost withoutexception books of spiritual liberation and of the enlargement of human interestsand privileges. The men of letters whose works appear in these lists are thosewho might have said, with Heine, Lay a sword on my coffin, for I was a soldierIn the war for the liberation of humanity. Having before us this choice selection from those with whom the pen hasbeen mightier than the sword, and with whom thought has proved perhapsa more potent mover of the world than all the arms of war and implements ofpeace, it seems highly desirable to lay before our readers sketches of the careersof these famous authors and to give critical reviews of the works named, withthe endeavor to discover to what they owe their potent influence and what thecharacter of this influence has been. This, however, we have already. 2>1 C ** * • :*£ * wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ;*t * ♦ ^. g CHARLES DARWIN, THE FAMOUS APOSTLE OF EVOLUTION. ;P to the middle of the nineteenth century the science of Hfe was avery incomplete one. Hundreds of men had been busy in collectingand studying animals and plants; travellers had sought all accessibleparts of the world in quest of new species and varieties; facts wereaccumulating like books in a library or specimens in a museum;facts by thousands and tens of thousands, yet they lay heaped to-gether without system or arrangement, a confused mass, whose intricacy grewgreater with every addition to the heap. How had this multitude of living forms come upon the earth ? Had each ofthe seemingly numberless species been separately created, as was held by many ?Had they developed one from another, as was held by a few ? These were theproblems which presented themselves to the world and called for solution, and theopposed doctrines of special creation a
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