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Darwin's example.(Charles Darwin)

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From: The Humanist
Date: 20060501
Author:Appleman, Philip

CHARLES DARWIN, after many years of hard work and illness, controversy and honor, lay on his deathbed. A biographer tells us: "During the night of April 18th [1882], about a quarter to twelve, he had a severe attack and passed into a faint, from which he was brought back to consciousness with great difficulty. He seemed to recognize the approach of death, and said, 'I am not the least afraid to die.'" His last words.

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