A Darwinian Gentleman at Marx's Funeral

摘要

What could possibly be deemed incongruous on a shelf of Victorian bric-a-brac, the ultimate anglophone symbol for miscellany? What, to illustrate the same principle on a larger scale, could possibly seem out of place in London's Highgate Cemetery—the world's most fantastic funerary park of overgrown vegetation and overblown statuary, once described as a "Victorian Valhalla ... a maze of rising terraces, winding paths, tombs and catacombs... a monument to the Victorian age and to the Victorian attitude to death . . . containing some of the most celebrated—and often most eccentric—funerary architecture to be found anywhere" (from Highgate Cemetery, by Felix Barker and John Gay, published in 1984 by John Murray in London, the same firm that printed Darwin's major books— score one for British continuity!)?