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Excerpt from Charles Darwin, Naturalist O Rugged sage, strange confidant wert thou Of Nature's choice to learn long secret lore, Age-baffling riddles answerless before! Ah, woman-like, she in the end must bow To patience of pursuit, to constant vow, To cunning study, yielding more and more, To thy long siege, until the very core Of her thought showed, invisible till now. And thou art crowned with measureless acclaim The greatest son of Science' brightest day, To Newton's self at least co-equal fame: Nay more, thou art a rock above the seas Of superstition, and by thee the way To a new church is given, and the keys! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.