ON REFLECTION
A day out with Darwin
Correspondence to:
Dr J Launer, London Department of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN, UK; jlauner@londondeanery.ac.uk
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If you want to pay homage to Britain’s greatest poet and playwright, you must fight your way through the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, alongside thousands of others who have come to visit a town that is almost entirely dedicated to Shakespeare’s memory. If, by contrast, you want to pay homage to Britain’s greatest scientist, you will need to take a train from London to one of its outer suburbs, wait half an hour for a bus, ask to be dropped off at a small village several miles away, and then walk for a further quarter of a mile. You will then have arrived at Down House, where Charles Darwin lived for 40 years and where he wrote On the origin of species. On a busy day, you may find a small party of visiting tourists—probably German or Scandinavian—but if you are lucky you may find yourself practically alone.
The contrast
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