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the discovery, as Ulysses when he, at last, sighted the island of Ithaca after all his wanderings, and gave vent to his feelings in the words,—

Χαιρ᾽ Ιθακη, μετ αεθλα, μετ αλγεα μικρα
Ασπασιως τεον ουδας ἱκανομαι.

Which we venture to paraphrase, after Moore.^[1]

Hail—thou portal of nature!
To seek thee we’ need no longer sigh;
Darwin, at last, has brought us nigh.

Thus launched on the vast ocean of evolution:

That dark and endless sea!
Their thoughts as boundless;
And of old notions free.^[2]
[Apud Byron “The Corsair.”]

They have out-sailed their pilot, and imagine all animal life has been evolved from “primal atoms, or protoplasm.’ Such as Bathybius or Protobathybius.^[2]

NOTE

1. See his “Travels of an Irish Gentleman.”
2. Terms given by M M. Hæckel and Huxley to a