Charles Darwin finds his way: in the spring he begins to study geology and in the autumn he receives the offer to embark on the Beagle. In the previous years he had not had very clear ideas: with a precocious mania for collecting and a strong inclination for solitary walking that he had since he was a boy, he also did badly in high school and soon settled into the certainty that he would inherit a fortune sufficient to avoid him having to work
