"I was born at Shrewsbury on February 12th, 1809. I have heard my Father say that he believed that persons with powerful minds generally had memories extending far back to a very early period of life.
"Dramatis personae. Biographical list of persons appearing in the pages of Charles Darwin's diary": p.[xxi]-xxiii siris_sil_12778 ...
In his secret notebooks, Darwin shifts his focus to humankind as a species. "Man -- wonderful Man, with divine face, turned towards heaven, he is not a deity, his end under present form will come ...