Darwin and God by Spencer Nick

Author:Spencer, Nick [Spencer, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: SPCK
Published: 2009-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

She was to be ‘the solace of our old age’. ‘I always thought, that come what might, we should have had in our old age, at least one loving soul, which nothing could have changed.’ It was not to be.

‘She must have known how we loved her,’ he concluded. ‘Oh that she could now know how deeply, how tenderly we do still & shall ever love her dear joyous face.’

Annie was not the first child Darwin lost, nor the last. But nothing was the same after she died. Nearly a decade later, in September 1860, he wrote to his friend Thomas Huxley, whose four-year-old son had just died of scarlet fever.

I know well how intolerable is the bitterness of such grief. Yet believe me, that time, & time alone, acts wonderfully. To this day, though so many years have passed away, I cannot think of one child without tears rising in my eyes; but the grief is become tenderer & I can even call up the smile of our lost darling, with something like pleasure.153

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