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【正文】 an the intellect。 but, in all parts of the civilised world, it would seem that those whose business it is to feel the pulse of nat ions and to know what interests the masses of mankind, were well aware that thousands of their readers would think the world the poorer for Darwin39。s death, and would dwell with eager interest upon every incident of his history. In France, in Germany, in AustroHungary, in Italy, in the United States, writers of all shades of opinion, for once unanimous, have paid a willing tribute to the worth of our great countryman, ignored in life by the official representatives of the kingdom, but laid in death among his peers in Westminster Abbey by the will of the intelligence of the nation. 3 It is not for us to allude to the sacred sorrows of the bereaved home at Down。 but it is no secret that, outside that domestic group, there are many to whom Mr. Darwin39。s death is a wholly irreparable loss. And this not merely because of his wonderfully genial, simple, and generous nature。 his cheerful and animated conversation, and the infinite variety and accuracy of his information。 but because the more one knew of him, the more he seemed the incorporated ideal of a man of science. Acute as were his reasoning powers, vast as was his knowledge, marvellous as was his tenacious industry, under physical difficulties which would have converted nine men out of ten into aimless invalids。 it was not these qualities, great as they were, which impressed those who were admitted to his intimacy with involuntary veneration, but a certain intense and almost passionate honesty by which all his thoughts and actions were irradiated, as by a central fire. 4 It was this rarest and greatest of endowments which kept his vivid imagination and great speculative powers within due bounds。 which pelled him to undertake the prodigious labours of original investigation and of reading, upon which his published works are based。 which made him accept criticisms and suggestions from anybody and everybody, not only without impatience, but with expressions of gratitude sometimes almost ically in excess of their value。 which led him to allow neither himself nor others to be deceived by phrases, and to spare neither time nor pains in order to obtain clear and distinct ideas upon every topic with which he occupied himself. 5 One could not converse with Darwin without being reminded of Socrates. There was the same desire to find some one wiser than himself。 the same belief in the sovereignty of reason。 the same ready humour。 the same sympathetic interest in all the ways and works of men. But instead of turning away from the problems of Nature as hopelessly insoluble, our modern philosopher devoted his whole life to attacking them in the spirit of Heraclitus and of Democritus, with results which are the substance of which their speculations were anticipatory shadows. 6 The due appreciation, or even enumeration, of these results is neither practicable nor desirable at this moment. There is a time for all things–a time for glorying in our everextending conquests over the realm of Nature, and a time for mourning over the heroes who have led us to victory. 7 None have fought better, and none have been more fortunate, than Charles Darwin. He found a great truth trodden underfoot, reviled by bigots, and ridiculed by all the world。 he lived long enough to see it, chiefly by his own efforts, irrefragably established in science, inseparably incorporated with the mon thoughts of men, and only hated and feared by those who would revile, but dare not. What shall a man desire more than this? Once more 新編英語教程 7 (Unit 714 Text I) ants05 10 the image of Socrates rises unbidden, and the noble peroration of the Apology rings in our ears as if it were Charles Darwin39。s farewell: 8 The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways–I to die and you to live. Which is the better, God only knows. From: S. F. Tropp, pp. 230232. 新編英語教程 7 (Unit 714 Text I) ants05 11 Unit Thirteen The Scopes Trial Frederick Lewis Allen In the following essay, you can see how carefully the author describes the town and people of Dayton, Tennessee, so that the reader visualizes the setting in which the trial takes place. Description thus makes the narrative vivid。 we live for a moment in that hurlyburly and watch the action of the trial unfold. 1 It was a strange trial. Into the quiet town of Dayton flocked gaunt Tennessee farmers and their families in muledrawn wagons and ram shackle Fords。 quiet, godly people in overalls and gingham and black, ready to defend their faith against the foreigners, yet curious to know what this newfangled evolutionary theory might be. Revivalists of every sort flocked there, too, held their meetings on the outskirts of the town under the light of flares, and tacked up signs on the trees about the courthouse= Read Your Bible Daily for One Week, and Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out, and at the very courthouse gate: THE KINGDOM OF GOD The sweetheart love of Jesus Christ and Paradise Street is at hand. Do you want to be a sweet angel? Forty days of prayer. Itemize your sins and iniquities for eternal life. If you e clean, God will talk back to you in voice. 2 Yet the atmosphere of Dayton was not simply that of rural piety. Hotdog venders and lemonade venders set up their stalls along the streets as if it were circus day. Booksellers hawked volumes on biology. Over a hundred newspapermen poured into the town. The Western Union installed twenty two telegraph operators in a room off a grocery store. In the courtroom itself, as the trial impended, reporters and cameramen crowded alongside grimfaced Tennessee countrymen。 there was a buzz of talk, a shuffle of feet, a ticking of telegraph instruments, an air of suspense like that of a first night perfor