17 February 1879 – 23 February 1879

Drove with Carlyle. — Darwin and Haeckel. C. : ' For Darwin personally I have great respect ; but ail that of " Origin of Species," etc., is of little interest to me. What we desire to know is, who is the Maker ? and what is to come to us when we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Whoever looks into him- self must be aware that at the centre of things is a mysterious Demiurgus — who is God, and who cannot in the least be adequately spoken of in any human words.'