Adam, Alexander (the famous schoolmaster) ... "It grows dark, boys: you may go."
Addison, Joseph ... "See how a Christian can die!"
Albert Prince Consort ... "Liebes gutes Frauchen!"
Augustus (Emperor) ... "Plaudite!"
Bede (The Venerable) ... "Consummatum est."
Bossuet, Benigne ... "Fiat Voluntas Tua!"
Brontë, Charlotte (to her husband) ... "I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy."
Byron (Lord) ... "I think I will go to sleep."
Charles II. (King) ... "Don't let poor Nellie starve."
Charles V. (Emperor) ... "Ay, Jesus!"
Chesterfield (Lord) ... "Give Dayrolles a chair."
Cicero ... "Causa causarum, miserere mei!"
Darwin, Charles B. ... "I am not in the least afraid to die."
Devonshire (8th Duke of) ... "Well, the game is over, and I am not sorry."
Disraeli, Benjamin ... "I am overwhelmed!"
"Eliot, George" ... "Tell the doctors that I have great pain in the left side."
Etty, William (painter) ... "Wonderful—wonderful! this death."
Frederick the Great ... "La montagne est passée; nous irons mieux."
George IV. (King) ... "Watty, what is this? It is death, my boy: they have deceived me."
Gladstone, W. E. ... "Prions—commençons—Our Father."
Goethe, W. von ... "Draw back the curtains, and let in more light."
Goldsmith, Oliver (to the question, "Is your mind at ease?" in a melancholy voice) ... "No, it is not."
Haydn, Joseph ... "God preserve the Emperor!"
Hood, Thomas (in a tone of relief) ... "Dying—dying."
Humboldt, A. von ... "Wie herrlich diese Strahlen! sie schienen die Erde zum Himmel zu rufen."
Jerrold, Douglas, asked how he felt, said "he felt like one who was waiting and was waited for."
Johnson, Samuel ... "God bless you!"
Keats, John ... "I feel the flowers growing over me."
Knox, John ... "about 11 of the clock gave a deep sigh, exclaimed, 'Now it is come,' and presently expired."
Lacordaire, Henri ... "Mon Dieu! mon Dieu! ouvrez-moi, ouvrez-moi."
Mackintosh, Sir James ... "Happy!"
Mary Queen of Scots ... "In Te, Domine, speravi."
Mathews, Charles ... "I am ready."
Mezzofanti (Cardinal) ... "Andiamo, andiamo presto in Paradiso!"
Mirabeau, Victor ... "Let me die to the sounds of delicious music."
Napoleon Bonaparte ... "Tête d'armée."
Pope, Alexander ... "There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship; and indeed friendship itself is but a part of virtue."
Rabelais ... "Je vais quérir le grand peut-être."
Scott, Walter ... "God bless you!"
Tasso, Torquato ... "In manus Tuas, Domine."
Wordsworth, William ... "God bless you!"
Ximenes, Cardinal ... "In Te, Domine, speravi."
"Science and Christ have nothing to do with each other, except in as far as the habit of scientific investigation makes a man cautious about accepting any proofs.As far as I am concerned, I do not believe that any revelation has ever been made. With regard to a future life, every one must draw his own conclusions from vague and contradictory probabilities."—(Letter to a Jena student, dated June 5th, 1879.)
"Mr. Darwin was much less reticent to myself than in his letter to Jena. He distinctly stated that, in his opinion, a vital or somatic principle, apart from the somatic energy, had no morelocus standiin the human than in any other races of the animal kingdom—a conclusion that seems a mere corollary of, and indeed a position tantamount with, his essential doctrine of human and bestial identity of nature and genesis."—(Dr. Robert Lewins, in theJournal of Science.)
It may be instructive to subjoin to the aboveCredoof Darwin those of three other eminent Victorians, whom the present generation would probably pronounce it unkind and ill-mannered to brand as atheistical or un-Christian. Let them speak for themselves:—
Stuart Mill: "This world is a bungled business, in which no clear-sighted man can see any signs either of wisdom or of God."
Huxley: "Scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Matthew Arnold: "The existence of God is an unverifiable hypothesis."
Dr. Liddon, preaching in St. Paul's Cathedral on the Sunday after Darwin's death, devoted his matchless oratory to a eulogy in which there was not the remotest reference to the fact that the subject of it was a man who had formally repudiated not only Christianity but revealed religion. Here are the eloquent canon's opening words:—
"These reflections may naturally lead us to think of the eminent man, whose death during the past week is an event of European importance; since he is the author of nothing less than a revolution in the modern way of treating a large district of thought, while his works have shed high distinction on English science."
Dr. Laing, of Cambridge University, on the other hand, expressed with refreshing candour his objections to the proposed interment of Darwin in Westminster Abbey:—
"They urged his claim to Abbey honours on the very ground of his having been the chief promoter of the atheistic mock-doctrines of evolution of species and the ape-descent of man. It is, therefore, as the high priest of dirt-worship that the English nation has assigned to him the privilege of being interred in a temple dedicated to the service of his Creator."
Abbotsford,52,54,74
Aberdeen, Bishop (Chisholm) of,73,124,139,149
Abingdon, 7th Earl of,34,252
Abruzzi, Duca dei,82
Aix-les-bains, visit to,228
Amélie of Portugal, Queen,226
Ampleforth Abbey,120,138,153,201,217; jubilee of,230,251
Anderson, Mary (Mme. Navarro),153
Angus, Rev. George,19note,122; death of,124note,138,196,224,238
Anson, Sir William, M.P.,138
Aragon, R.M.S.P.,155
Argyll and the Isles, Bishop (Smith) of,240
Arthur of Connaught, Prince,92; Princess,225
Arundel Castle,3,8,13,42,51,65,105,108,109,223,260,261
Asquith, Mrs.,198
Athole, Duke of,64note
Bailey, "Abe,"151
Balfour of Burleigh, Lord,176
Balfour, Arthur,59note,62
Ball, Provost,102
Balston, Dr. Edward,171
Bath and Wells, Bishop (Kennion) of,100
Battenberg, Prince and Princess Henry of,237note
Beaufort Castle,61,81,99,106,119,132,151,195,220,227
Beauly, Scouts' monument at,61
Beethoven's Grand Mars,217
Bellairs, Lieut. Carlyon, M.P.,143
Bellingham of Castlebellingham,47,67note
Belloc, Hilaire,143
Belmont Priory,7,147
Benedictine life and work in Brazil,159-185
Benn, Sir John, M.P.,186
Benson, Robert Hugh,93,129
Bertouche, Baron de,11
Birrell, Augustine,69note
Bismarck, William II and,24
Blairquhan,119,149
Blair's College,124
Blenheim Palace,20,44,65
Bodley's Librarian,103,104
Boulogne-sur-mer,125,126
Booth, "General,"92
Boothby, Sir Brooke,153
Bourne, Archbishop,4note,43,75; Cardinal,223,231,240,253,259,263
Bowlby, Eleanor,141
Bowyer, Sir George,46note
Boyle, Hon. Alan,189,196
Boyle, Dean George,53note
Boyle, James (consul),187
Boyle, Hon. John,257
Bradfield College, Greek plays at,20,92
Bramham Park,96
Brazil, Dr. Vidal,174
Broughton, Rhoda,113
Buckie,220
Buoncompagni-Ludovisi, Don Andrea,77
Burges, William,58
Burgon, Dean,104,136
Bury St. Edmunds, pageant at,91,92
Butcher, Professor, M.P.,138
Bute, 4th Marquis of,1,35,40,47,54,56,62,118,146,222,240,259
Bute, Dowager Marchioness of,10,54,101,152
Butler, Abbot,84,245
Caerphilly Castle,147
Caldey Abbey,255
Caledonian Club,222
Caloen, Bishop Gerard van,245
Cambridge,141,199
Campbell of Skerrington,124
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H.,43,59note
Campden, Viscount,69
Canterbury,8,9,249
Cardiff Castle,59,141,263
Caruana, D. Maurus,250
Castlebellingham,47,48
Cecil, Lord Hugh,45,49,138,143
Cecil, Lord William,225
Chamberlain, Joseph,59
Chambéry, Cardinal Archbishop of,229
Cheadle, church at,231
Choate,69
Churchill, Winston,47,171
Clumber, chapel at,57note
Corehouse,21
Corpus Christiat S. Paulo,181; at Arundel,261
Craigmillar Castle,152
Cranbrook, Earls of,193,194
Crianlarich,206
Crichton-Stuart, Lord Colum,79
Crichton-Stuart, Lord Ninian,10,67,129,130,176,203
Cuddesdon College,128
Cumbrae, Isle of,69note,101,152
Curzon of Kedleston, Lord,84,89,100,102
Dalrymple, Sir Charles,62,141,240,241note
Dalrymple, Hon. North,176
Darwin, Charles,137,267,268
Day, Sir John,37
De Moleyns, Captain,112
Derwent Hall,3
Dillon, 17th Viscount,12
Dolan, Dom Gilbert,57note
Dorchester Abbey,128
Dorrien-Smith, "King of Scilly,"141
Douai Abbey,137,200,221,250,257
Doune Castle,218,240
Downside Abbey,42,56,84,129,263
Dumfries, convent-school at,21,49,94,117; asylum at,49
Dumfries House,54
Dunblane, cathedral at,205; Queen Victoria's School at,230
Dunedin, Lord,81
Dunskey,9,48,118,149
Eastbourne,87
Edmonstoune-Cranstouns,21
Edward VII, King,83,127,155; death of,179
Ellice, Mrs., of Invergarry,204
Ellis, Professor Robinson,86,87
Elwes, Lady Winifride,212
Encombe, Viscountess,109,139; John Viscount,139
Eton College,50,129,147,225
Eugénie, Empress,99note,242
Everingham Park,12,96
"Evil Eye," the,77
Exton Park,51
Faber, Rev. F. W.,145,250
Fanshawe, Admiral Sir Arthur,120
Farnborough, Benedictine Abbey at,11,241
Farrer, Sir William, death of,215,218
Fairlie of Myers,123
Fergusson, Sir James,62; death of,83
Fife, Colonel Sir Aubone,237
Fitzgerald, Percy,12
Fort Augustus Abbey: reunited with English Benedictines,176; railway at,202; election of abbot at,239
Franquetot, Marquis de,125
Franqueville, Comtesse de,125
Fraser, Hon. Alastair,215,221