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AND
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CHARLES
DARWIN.
CHAPTER
THE
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volume,
in the
given
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of
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words.
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language
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orthodox
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in
found
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thoroughly
species.
at
feel
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my
SPECIES.'
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following chapters
that, in the
not
ORIGIN
growth
in
history thus
the
did
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p.
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monizes
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468.
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in
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speaking of
p. 353 ; 2nd
any
in
the
part
why
of the
mass
but
it shows
belief
(p.83),that
a
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theory took
his
Journal
true
us
mentioned
finished
the
seven
of
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index
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in
appear
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selection.
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mind,
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he
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got
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turning-point
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place
to
first edition
years
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in the
read
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taking shape
potency of natural
publisheduntil 1839),and
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was
of
'
development
give
sure
until
not
after
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not
was
felt
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was
of the
clear view
1838
it
he
of the
of
wonder
to
created."
edition.
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idea
insignificant
so
is apt
one
been
editions
two
It does
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us
allow
to
have
conjecturewhich
of
the
of nature,
some
evolution.
on
play
to
seems
speciesshould
giving
as
views
which
great scheme
comparison
animal
distinct
Thus,
the birds
edit. p.
this case,
SPECIES.'
OF
with
historythan
natural
theological
in
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
FOUNDATIONS
not
edition
the formation
writing
of
the two
editions.
I will first give
in the
same
interest
The
2nd
his
illustrating
as
of the
edit. p.
by
him
deeply.
which
p. 139 ; 2nd
by
the
The
frame
have
of the
him
phenomenon
which
are,
of mind
we
been
one
existence
know
discussion
edit. p.
the
practically
are
therefore,
chieflyof
in
1837.
species of Molothrus
two
53) must
which
passages
editions,and
two
case
noticed
few
120)
of
of the
(istedit.
p. 61 ;
earliest instances
representativespecies
"
struck
('Autobiography,'
p. 8^,)
on
shows
introduced
how
animals
much
complicatedinterdependence of
he
the
(istedit.
impressed
was
inhabitants
of
given area.
An
analogous point
(istedit.
large
;
p.
animals
98
; 2nd
of
view
edit. p.
require,for
is
85) of
their
given
the
support,
in
the
mistaken
a
discussion
belief that
luxuriant
tion
vegeta-
by the
com-
THE
parisonof
the
the fauna
is that
is
bearing
as
the
the east
has
origin of
species
same
we
countries,
the Andes
the
than
not
are
other
in
evolutionary
blind
Tuco-tuco
first edition
have
thought,
which
are
of
verbally
instance
similar to the
Thus, in describing
edit. p.
what
to
strongly
more
are
p. 60 ; 2nd
allusion
is the
nor
larity
simi-
strait of the
is almost
edit.,but otherwise
no
two
same.
(ist edit.
makes
he
we
in
closer
broad
corresponding passages
the
on
opposite sides
passage
again
passages
the 2nd
the
on
mice
created
expect any
cusses
dis-
Unless
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399) :
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to
he
speciesof
p.
separatedby
and is practically
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identical,
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the
have
quoted
once
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(istedit.
ought
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more
between
organic beings
on
In the 2nd
organism.
been
to
of the
interest
priori ignorance of
his views.
of the Andes
west
America, and
The
our
clearly
which
South
continents.
difference
striking
between
sea."
Africa
two
it shows
the
on
the
different
and
passage
and
suppose
of South
the conditions
There
VOYAGE.'
the
vegetation of
discussion
'NATURALIST'S
used
52),in
Lamarck
as
the
might
of
example
an
strikingpassage
in the
occurs
between
relationship
the
sloths,ant-eaters, and
armadillos."
"
This
wonderful
the dead
more
and
and
the
This
extinct
in
relationship
will,I
living,
the appearance
lighton
their
"
of
does
not
evidentlyprofoundly struck
giganticforerunners
In
both, our
strong
of the
the discussions
statement
by
the
continent
same
the
living
between
not
organic beingson
any
the
other
1st
edition,the discussion
our
earth,
class of facts."
edit, but he
was
disappearanceof
The
editions is most
the conditions
of the
(p.173) on
and
present animals.
in the two
ignoranceof
the
in the
occur
edit.
edentata
from it,than
disappearance
sentence
between
do
2nd
the
difference
instructive.
to lead up
to
THE
FOUNDATIONS
Then
follows
which
introduces
OF
SPECIES.'
OF
rarity*
between
comparison
'ORIGIN
THE
and
extinction,,
preservationand
dominance
of
climate
increased
believe
of other
number
But
disappearance of
the
of
varieties of
of the
the
ends
the
species to
tion
varia-
as
enemies,
cause
he
(istedit.)
finally
the
or
sion
succes-
chapter by
exhaustion
and
as
fruit-trees,
though he thought
of life was
mysterious term
of
introduction
species,as
the extinction
comparing
simple relations
in such
food, or
and
of races,"
that
to
impressed
each
on
species
its creation.
at
The
difference of
productionsof
book, the
the
noticed, as
different islands
forward.
islands
whole
the
the
creative
is not
passage
fuller.
Why
the
their
the
In
the
manner
the
strongly put
:
"
and
would
be
the
to
been
explained,
authors,by saying
according
tinents,
con-
scarcely
same
that
law
of
droughts is givenas
in the
second
the
over
"
"
are
much
the
wider
:
"
in kind
therefore
were
(2nd edit.
p.
good example
number
and
acting
they
edition,p. 146,
Niata cattle by
a
edition,and
associated
aboriginalinhabitants,
why
"
second
destruction
distinct,has
some
given
proportionsboth
organisation?
*
of
he asks
Continent, and
different
of
but
own,
so
geographicaldistribution
Thus
were
different
on
the
(istedit. p. 474.)
"
on
generalisations
"
fact that
distant islands
circumstance
acted
had
power
area."
The
the views
according to
between
species are
noticed.
sufficiently
and
is the
is not
is of
type of the
speciallytheir
problem
similarityof type
while
This
American
"This
wide
is
forms
possess
of
importance
Galapagos problem
In the earlier
interest.
some
of the
treatment
on
created
on
each
in
...
from
those
other
American
in
types
393.)
of
ignorance of
our
rarityor
does
not
extinction.
occur
the
causes
of
The
passage
in the firstedition.
FROM
led
to
to
comprehend
Fossil
of
My
1837.
would
theory
Anatomy
lead
to
of
it
"
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what
to
we
what
give
would
zest
lead
of
direct
passages
which
speculations.
would
then
order
in
tend,
to
this
in
structure
be
whole
heredity,
of
examination
it,
prevents
mind
closest
change
causes
from
"
heredity,
would
come
our
affinities.
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instincts,
generation,
change,
OF
to
it
crossing
NOTE-BOOK
true
"
recent
study
what
what
have
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direct
and
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might
object
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hybridity
circumstances
species,
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to
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of
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of
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NOTE-BOOK
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edition
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the whole
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views
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strong
point
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and
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Journal,'we
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form
which
in
proof of
treatment
of the
surprisehow
note-books
the
in the
edition
second
of
remarkable
self-restraint
sense
1837.
from
the
in
species has
me
readingthe
After
find with
his
from
is not
and
theory.
in the first
"
to
seems
editions
the two
between
presented
ends."
for different
modified
in this
Archipelago,one
in this
birds
of beak
Whereas
One
"
elsewhere
is described
finch
comment.
concludes
form
the
speciesof
allied
the thirteen
by
837.
is shown
gradation in
the
Thus
chapter.
of treatment
difference
same
OF
opinion
an
he
on
down
wrote
1838:
and
this is the
The
Malthus.
of
so
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arrive at
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us
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exceptions (indicated
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have
punctuation,however,
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are
being omitted,
words
many
notes
it
doing, as
thoughts before
of his
condition
insightinto the
worth
more
extracts
as
altered, and
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necessary.
written
few
; the
obvious
extracts
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not
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book
my
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book,
seems
why
from
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structure
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in
see
can
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of the
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reproductionby
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this
pages
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cut
book, probablyfor
of
have
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use
1844, and
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where
is mentioned.
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the
Many
of thenote-
out
in
writingthe
these
contained
interestingextracts.
as
countries
discussed, and
Zoonomia
pages
type
the
would
most
THE
when
to
FOUNDATIONS
we
Countries
from
necessary,
Hope
apply to
whole
Hence
differences
distinct
lopes
ante-
if separated
"
types, but
organickingdom
followingextracts
of evolution
it is.
necessary
each
when
planet
our
"
two
as
was
in Australia."
"
The
if it
be
first cooled
but
longestseparated greatest
this
SPECIES.'
OF
marsupials at Australia."
ORIGIN
result would
of Good
Cape
at
'
THE
hardly believe
can
the
forefather,
one
"
OF
to the
that he
appliedthe theory
from
organic kingdom
plantsto
"
whole
"
show
man.
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"
choose
we
fellow
brethren
slaves
our
to let
in
ancestor
common
The
"
between
as
they
we
"
different
laborious
most
"
wild, then
animals,our
and
pain,disease,death, suffering
in the
amusements
our
conjecture run
works,
be all melted
may
intellects of
livingthingswithout
in
origin in
one
together."
and
man
"
companions
our
partake [of?]our
may
famine
animals
not
so
great
and living
thought (plants),
view
"
followingextracts
of the
probabilityof
as
propagation,"
"
The
base of branches
"
There
yet from
ranks
had
have
been
At
"
have
he called
of life should
tree
never
some
dead
may
the
concerned
so
not
called
that passages
been
grade
place,
speaking of
descent
"
between
life,
be seen."
pig
and
tapir,
if the intermediate
series would
intermediate
forms,he
says
"
Now
all Armadilloes
dead."
priori
the coral of
cannot
Now
progenitor.
intermediate
forms
been
Palseotherium,Megalonyx, Mastodon,
now
perfect."
more
Cuvier
an
it.
probably the
produced infinite species,
another
living?
with
originof speciesby
perhaps be
have
common
again
are
according to
might
be
my
view
brother
discovered
and
the
between
species now
Megatherium
"
of
uncle
NOTE-BOOK
Speaking elsewhere
Opponents will
"
show
will
you
Here
we
The
leads
to
up
It is
dying
it
over
"
disappearance
animals
the
on
:
"
yes, if
answer
bulldog
and
hound."
grey-
already
was
of natural
production
forms
naturally
which
the
of intermediate
subject of extinction,with
the
Mr.
from
in such
time
same
that
Lyell say
tract
wonderful
about
out
Will
"
I will
me.
domestic
bearing
as
forms, he remarks
them
of
case
next
begins.
extract
"
837.
step between
every
species.
show
"
that the
see
of intermediate
say
me
OF
Spain
different quarters.
killed
[same ?]circumstance
some
South
to
mastodon,
America
(Never.)
"
They die,without
it is
individual
does
Why
die ?
To
and
(therefore
adaptation),
and
obliterate accidental
of
change (for,
arities
peculi-
varieties,
change,
course,
in
even
itself to
accommodate
to
perpetuate certain
this
argument
appliesto species.
"
If individual
cannot
propagate
he
has
issue
no
so
"
with
species.
"If
off:
other
species
generate
like
"
their
species,
is not
race
utterlycut
on
wise
other-
"
all die.
"
The
fossil horse
continued
"
All
buds
perishedin
"
animals
of
generated, in South
of
Prove
between
associated
and
will be
complete."
Here
or
impressed
But
have
we
on
in the
speciesare
die at
later.
sooner
"
and
America.
same
plants,which
Africa, zebra
one
animals
non-associated
the view
togetherjust like
bound
plants
animals
already alluded
gradation
trace
"
"
to of
and
the
term
story
of life
species.
followingnote
we
with
FOUNDATIONS
THE
unfavourable
selection
"
'ORIGIN
variation,and
thus
SPECIES.'
OF
hint is
extinction, we
to
respect
thus
perish out
(Petise),
may
the
on
; or,
be
not
other
well
requires [the]principlethat
permanent
confined
continued
such
and
therefore
what
(contraryto
that
circumstances."
The
the
The
first part of
end
he had
of his
"
we
of the
this
at
next
earlydate
has
extract
visions
the
produced.
variations
adaptation of
species is
from
America)
similar
bearing.
showing that
interest,as
of
[a
circumstances
of
appear
is of much
passage
adapted,
be
the
to
death
would
non-adaptation of
of
changing
producefd] according
circumstances, and
consequence
the
and
breeding
[a]
might
produced by
that
easily see
can
being favourable,many
Galapagos bird],
are
natural
"
variety of [the]ostrich
This
of
given
With
and
THE
OF
character
far-reaching
:
speculations
"
With
led
are
discover
to
full of
study
of
of
instincts,heredity,and
and
ture
struc-
observation.
of
theory would
My
....
and
lines
speculation and
intelligible
recent
geographicalgrouping,
of change ; the
causes
becomes
of
endeavour
to
of
manner
View
and
belief of transmutation
ganisation
highest or-
give
; it would
zest
lead
mind-heredity,whole
to
to
the
[of]
metaphysics.
"
It would
of
causes
from
and
to
crossingand
of direct
change
what
in order
tend
we
"
of structure
passages
The
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might
species,
be the
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ation,
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what
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what
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to
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organized
OF
NOTE-BOOK
of the
concluding sentence
the
said
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movement
separate
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stock, and
one
to
be
ordered
each
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[a] power
sublime
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then
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by
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for each
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created,
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it contains
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second
successors.
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be such, and
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let geological
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country to another
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Originof Species (edit,
p.
There
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animals,
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and
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discussions
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in
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and
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and
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'
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on
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on
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Origin of Species.' It
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nature,
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work,
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variation under
on
'
hand, in
leaves
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to
It is divided
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view
Organic Beings
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to
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folio,blank
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and
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1844 is written
the
SPECIES.'
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text
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and
'ORIGIN
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to
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Origin
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place in Chapter
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VI.
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view
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to
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'
I.
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stated
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explained by
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means.
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First
Edition
Chapter VII.
of the
('Origin')on
Sketch,
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under
'
Nature
chapters of
their
the
in
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second
correspondence
part of the
with
final
the
Origin.'
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of such
includes
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intermediate
II. "The
and
IX.
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forms."
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Chapters VI.
Chapter
'
'Variation
illustrate
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can
chapter in
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explain
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('Origin')
with
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exclude
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1859:
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believe
concluding Chapters of
we
point of
brieflygiven
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second
'Origin.'But
and
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series of facts
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to
seems
certainlydoes explain.
it
part,he
This
theory
part
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nth,
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my
in the first
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13,
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with
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slowly disappear."
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1844.
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'
to
Origin.'
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corresponds
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and
disappearance
Chapter
X.
of
the
Origin.'
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Chapters
XI.
Chapter
GeographicalDistribution."
"
XII.
and
IV.
"
of the
Affinities
Correspondsto
'Origin.'
and
Classification
of
Organic
beings."
Chapter V.
Chapter
These
'
Unity
"
VI.
of
Rudimentary Organs.
three
chapters correspond
to
Chapter
XII.
of the
Origin.'
Chapter VII.
Recapitulationand
Conclusion.
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final
THE
14
FOUNDATIONS
of
sentence
form
in
the
'
such
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division
Book
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is not
Origin
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into
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chapters on
the
on
the division
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Huxley, who
that in the
out
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forming
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remarking
1844 Essay,
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into two
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of
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'
SPECIES.'
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through the
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views
have
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and
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Sketch, it
grasp,
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Introduction,
Origin,'
p.
5.
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characteristics of
1859.
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law
general style of
it should
that
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in the parent.
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anticipated
regard to
first
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given in
birds, incidentally
that he had
the
Originof Species.'
unconscious," is
of
that my
me
'
mentioned
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Newton, who
"
as
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us
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may
Selection,which
Sexual
tend
familiar
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mention
find in the
are
so
and
striking
OF
PRINCIPLE
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all
The
each
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"
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dray-horses,"c,
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is greater.
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of
labour
different organs.
efficient and
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seize
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from
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wheat
sown,
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1844, I have
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exist because
to
when
are
by
division
performed by
'
1st
Origin,'
hi.
of
filldifferent stations.
found
the absence
edit. p.
more
different sections
it difficult to
of any
to
on
species becomes
to
plot
one
organism becomes
life
when
as
on
the
case
able
survive
functions
flaw in the
the
be
been
fitted to
more
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speciesbecome
In
race-horses,
and
constitution,
variety.
same
different
the
originally
an
polityof nature,
individuals have
perfectand
more
analogous
an
into
in the latter
varieties,
all of the
not
greater
the descendants
enabled
is exemplified by
principle
ground
they
diversified
in the
lesser difference
in numbers."
increase
to
species.
better
places
the
where
speciesin
are
how
on
goes
explain how
to
in structure,
varieties
into the
splitup
on
goes
more
they be
diversified
widely
of
that the
speciesbecome
one
any
been
natural
principleapplies to
circumstance
has
then
and
shows
domestication
He
species."
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does
augmented
between
uniform
then
How
is discussed
be familiar
then
view, varieties
the
and
difficulty
stating
my
varieties become
between
of the
species,and
to
point
not
than
formation
of
This
account
stated
importance,"
it may
begins by
Nevertheless,according
process
short
has
1844 Sketch; he
great
.character.
divergenceof
its solution.
of
problem
but, as
Originof Species,'
'
father
flaw of the
chief
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"one
of the
problem
to
him
to
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In
DIVERGENCE.
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with
l6
THE
FOUNDATIONS
modification
impliesdivergence,and
to
do
not
an
advantage.
in
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notice
found
1876
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As
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shown
will
value
the
to
should
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that
we
is in itself
father
Autobiography, my
credible
be
chronologicalposition,since
feelingas
divergence,that
in
have
looked
over-
its solution.
and
problem
habituated
so
in the
hardly
SPECIES.'
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become
we
therefore
of
following letter
The
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
what
it shows
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than
place here
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more
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its
father's
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the
time
of
its
completion.]
to Mrs.
C. Darwin
Darwin.
July 5, 1844.
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editor.
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H.
will
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with
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and
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Natural
at
History,
the end
and
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to
consider
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or
roughly divided
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Wedgwood.
books
portfolios.The
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by possibility
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make
editor.
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will
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references
carefullyto
you
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books
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or
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or
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all my
by
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be
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appendices.
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where
museum
[The followingnote
but
originalletter,
"
with
Lyell,especially
aid),would
zoological
pledge
himself
paying
such
After
the
comes
has
been
VOL.
Mr.
to
been
have
may
be
give
hundred
be
be
given
accepted.
.
formed
of later date
part of the
:
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Without
if any
an
to
it,it would
be
ible.
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Owen
good
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use
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name
sentence, which
following
erased, but
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best of all.
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History may
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My remaining collections
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request you
one
procuring
Dr.
Strickland.*
capable man
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will raise
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of
(and quite
Henslow.
next, Mr.
pounds
best
next
it, I would
undertake
Lyell, or
Professor
The
pleasant,
next
The
be
good.
very
Mr.
with
consult
the
naturalist,
As
him.
to
new
respects)would
of these
none
as
of
Forbes
in many
Hooker
facts
some
well
as
geologist
Professor
be
it ; I believe he would
undertake
would
remains
leg-
would
be
but I presume
he would
very
undertake such a work."
not
good
THE
FOUNDATIONS
If
"
there
would
of
go
the
of
should
marked
passages
it
then
its
form."
The
event
of
have
been
finished
his
"
that
idea
his
with
species
"
Hooker
by
the
the
far
copied
with
man
in
August
and
on
to
edit
is, stating
without
remain,
in
in
work,
his
of
to
he
had
beginning
above
volume.
the
seems
when
the
of
species
scraps
publication
1854,
back
the
of
memory
thinking
was
my
it
of
of
bearing
out
might
1844
record
for
added
from
intention
no
only
mind,
he
and
the
of
as
who
editor
an
published
of
Cirripedes,
best
and
ago
the
his
work,"
books
Sketch
as
in
think
and
death,
long
and
be
years
works,
any
subject,
sketch
my
several
consulting
getting
the
in
let
done
was
present
the
SPECIES.'
OF
in
difficulty
any
into
thoroughly
paper,
that
be
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
letter,
August
1854."]
later
The
date.
words
several
years
ago
and,"
seem
to
have
been
added
at
19
II.
CHAPTER
THE
GROWTH
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
LETTERS,
SPECIES.
OF
843-1 856.
completely in
[The historyof my father's life is told more
than
in any other
his correspondencewith Sir J. D. Hooker
of the history
this is especially
series of letters ; and
true
of the growth of the
Origin of Species.'This, therefore,
'
seems
Sir
father
:
"
first
"My
Trafalgar Square.
been
had
his
before, but
introduced
was
of
a
rather
that
interview
I carried
rather
tall and
slightstoop,
and
that
greetingof his
frank
is,delightfully
for I
was
from
his
read
Journal.'These
Charles)Lyellby
'
old
various
Mr.
submitted
Darwin, and
Ch.
Lyell,Esq.,of Kinnordy,
my
father,and taking
as
had
naturalist)
me
(being a
well,
unpublished
Sir
(afterwards
Mr.
him
him
"
labours,derived
his then
to
to peruse
with
sailor-like
was
and
interest in my
kind
allowed
who
by
that
voice ; and
I observed
of
proof-sheets
been
had
man,
mellow
but
cordial.
was
the
expression when
animated
acquaintance
and
him.
met
stillretain
and
seven
and
brief,
course
broad-shouldered
hollow
Beagle
believe,since
away
in
1839,
officer who
an
in the
of his attainments
alreadyaware
having
with
of
was
agreeableand
an
talking,beetle brows,
that
not, I
in
was
time
short
had
; the
of him
memory
for
who
Darwin
walking
was
shipmate
years
Mr.
with
meeting
his
sent
to
very
old
father,
friend of
projectedcareer
them.
At
c
this time
2
GROWTH
20
hurryingon
was
volunteeringto
Admiralty
; and
sleep with
the
had
'
between
should
who
they stimulated
been
It has
knew
of
that
pressed
imthe
physical,required
in
whilst
footsteps,
in Darwin's
in the
desire
travel
to
this little
complete,
"
which
and
episode
that
giftfrom
Mr.
ripened
for his
reverence
is reasonable
as
happinessto
scientific work
Darwin's
Mr.
of
of
source
intimacy began
those
to
near
to
that
pillow,
my
despairingly,with
enthusiasm
permanent
much
so
before
years
as
to
observe.
and
"
I used
rising. They
and
and
follow
to
me
under
say
'
the
by
on
I, that
was
waking
profoundly, I might
me
determined
Journal
before
degree
in the Antarctic
Ross
James
for time
of the
them
take my
to
as
been
just
pressed
so
sheets
read
might
Sir
accompany
Expedition, which
studies,so
my
[1843.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
I received
Lyell,
"
so
into
only
few
days
feelings
remains
of the
copy
many
and
works,
life,
It
proper.
that
me
racter
cha-
to
'
add
Journal
before
'
leaving
England.
"
Very
after
soon
the
return
of the
Antarctic
my
correspondence with
Mr.
by
his
long letter,warmly
me
on
wish
sending
had
he
hear
derived
plunging at
to
the
that of the
This
had
southern
knowledge
communicated
or
of
Cordillera and
collections
led to
formed
as
me
his
from
private letters
Mr.
of considerable
of
Europe,
he had
Patagonian
the
areas
him
the
an
and
and
directed
invited
made
which
of
my
Lyell). Then,
Flora
with
study
to
me
in the
tion
atten-
my
correlatingthe Fuegian
sending
regions,and
expressing
expedition,of
through
which
regarding
congratulating
friends,and
importance
Islands,as well
"
family and
my
some
once
the botanical
more
(writtento
own
to
return
my
to
me
Darwin
Expedition
Galapagos
Fuegian plants.
outline
distribution
of the
of
plants
of assuming
necessity
of land to account
conclusions
the
in
the
tion
destruc-
1843.]
SIR
of the
flora
suppose
that
led
to
the
of
HOOKER'S
D.
J.
so-called
of these
any
animated
an
REMINISCE^XES.
Antarctic
ideas
and
were
21
Islands.
him, but
to
new
I do
not
they
full
lengthy correspondence
of
instruction."
follows
Here
referred
My
the
"
from
return
anxious
materials
you
how
well
of
England
I have
days
of
since
me
which
in
of
and
am
Patagoniaat
thought that
sure
the
some
land, stretchingso
curious.
to
deal
the
Do
make
European
ignoramuses
like
sent
been
of
all
the
the
when
general sketch
far into
the
comparative
species, for
It has
remarks
the
I am,
they are,
very
remarkable
flowers
few
plants.
of Tierra
which
I have
of the
the
advantage
often struck
me
long
point of
seas, would
on
del
in flower
was
there.
of the Flora
southern
tion
collec-
pleased
as
me
plant
were
write,of
small
are
gale !
my
few
months
informed
There
more
we
enjoyment
me
much
some
more.
he
lost,and
Alpine
deal
of many
you
has
I got every
seasons
"
of the
one
made
how
of trouble.
to
as
all your
first few
(as
to
Henslow
myself.
I, as
good
of my
Henslow
of
your
time
some
full of
and
now
think
few
some
reading
subject,which
have
believe
if
sorry
happiness
cannot
good
on
doing with
paid particularattention
Fuego,
of
that
had
But
for
meet
intend
very
has
by letter)
habitats,"c,
I
pleasure
my
have
to
Geologicalmeetings.
you
busy
the
they would
cost
notes,
above
worth
from
this time
yet
the
what
the
plants. You
I feared
they
Hooker
D.
glorious voyage.
not
may
very
was
run
expressing
as
J.
congratulatingyou
I shall be
are
it
and
we
I remember
"
long
opportunity
no
suppose
and
much
so
that
letters,
public, have
you
know
to
I had
"
of your
few
Sir
before
hoped
led to attend
are
you
am
But
your
London,
to
go
without
I had
Sir,
dear
seldom
(1843)to
to.]
pleasure of seeing
safe
letter
the
be very
speciesallied
of
as
botanical
a
curious
OF
GROWTH
22
point
to find
in T. del
out, whether
Fuego which
Cordillera;the
Do
the
American
differences
of
that
Pray
St.
which
this
mous.
enor-
so
what
up,
and
how
the
genera
great
are
my
considerable
me
I suspect, offer
Helena,
excuse
you
all
pains in collecting
archipelagowould,
be
the
ignoramuses.
expressed to
even
much
of the
when
genera
ridge of
draw
you
are,
the
would
case
European,
species
will send
Humboldt
I took
"
the
Henslow
hope
which
of
along
sketch
what
European
many
such
any
and
European,
I
in
out
are
found
not
separation in
point
are
genera
there
are
[l843-
'ORIGIN.'
THE
has
I could.
curiosity)
Flora
of this
nearlyparallelcase
long
so
and
to
interest.
excited
believe
me,
my
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
Will
be
you
to
"
Sir
the
in
tell you
how
results
support my
different
Again
"
read
to
weeks
few
them
since
it is
me
interestingthe
I wish
ago
being
at
am
animals
in the
of the
fearful."
four
Flora
there
Galapagos papers,*and
I
here.
days
of the
were
the reinclude
papers
suits of Sir J. D. Hooker's
examina-
to
of what
read
Sandwich
materials
and
reallycannot
express
geographical discussion
perfectmodel
These
tion of my
wonderfully they
always been
your
of the
admiration
be ; it took
be, how
to
how
I have
astonished
"
judgment
should
Galapagos
delighted and
which
the
on
(1849):
stronglymy
my
How
work
the differences
on
islands,about
he wrote
1846
examination
your
assertion
I received
I have
too
of
compliments
respectful
present my
Hooker's
J. D.
father wrote
I cannot
to
as
Hooker.
Sir W.
[Referringto
Flora, my
good
so
and
such
think
Islands
for you
to
publishedby
Societyin 1849.
were
paper
over.
appears
treat
its
the Linnean
1843.]
flora
NATURAL
paper
rather
was
remarks
done
have
you
as
in almost
even
interesting
Very
letter
the
to
all their
as
and
often
you
and
St.
which
make
give
Hilaire
them
Sir J. D. Hooker] in
[continues
he
whom
the
by him,
historyof Evolution, I
C. Darwin
and
here copy
from
of
that I
believe
as
'Origin
his then
of interest
being
the
of
subject
communicated
which
subject,and
Systematic
rinding general
not
such
papers,
forward
brought
was
the
non-Botanist."
January 1844,
first to
the
on
in
In
Candolle
De
as
afterwards
'
the
was
to
soon
dated
Species
such
23
Galapagos.
affinities,
structures, "c,
on
introduced
"
the
disappointed
conversation, and
in
SELECTION.
ideas
new
contribution
"
his letter
:
"
J. D. Hooker.
to
have
been
now
work,
not
say
of the
of
determined
bear
one.
was
the American
struck
so
collect
"c.
of
sort
species.
are
collectingfacts.
At
almost
with)
convinced
that
"
Heaven
tendency
forfend
from
me
! But
widely
different from
are
wholly
so.
think
simple way
to various
though
I have
by which
ends.
You
found
now
could
of
heaps
ceased
never
Lamarck
and
I
am
started
the
out
I
means
of
nonsense
from
the
led
am
of
slow
to
are
change
(here'spresumption
speciesbecome
will
confessing a murder)
the conclusions
his ;
the
"c, that
opinion
"
not
adapted
like
the
bution
distri-
with
come,
progression," adaptations
to
!) the
(itis
not
to
the
read
have
lighthave
(quite contrary
species are
immutable.
of
gleams
would
fact,which
I have
agriculturaland
last
"c.
sumptuous
pre-
very
and
"c,
lands,I
who
with
mammifers,
blindlyevery
what
on
way
fossil
individual
one
Galapagos organisms,
to
any
no
in
engaged
return
my
I know
and
foolish
very
character
since
ever
the southern
groan,
exquisitely
and
think to
24
GROWTH
yourself,"on
and
what
the
fast
DEAR
the
HOOKER,
"
hope
by
the
thing
those
plants which
Do
examine
separate
Webb
I
the
this
know
of
islands
always
they
in
see
intended
on
islands
the
Sandwich
it
the
with
so
state
you
(is not
this
related
forms
to
in
of
case
your
have
the
Bentham,
representativespeciesof
this be worth
most
continental
(but
Mr.
of
Is
for
S.
archipelago,
an
Berthelot
and
my
ascertained
just
archipelago;
other
any
with
not
enough
will
sea-shells.
proportions are
are
send
can
in your
quite time
have
peculiarto
are
you
I have
answers
see
Galapagos, you
with
good
though
questions,
more
I shall
visited.
we
conveyance.
object. Talking
distinct
justfinished
I suppose
copy.
will be
for the
throw
some
you
fact?) but
curious
species?
you
aspect
the
for
fellow
as
may
I have
which
of my
have
Birds, though peculiarspecies,
holds
same
America.
care
interest
father's
my
and
one) we
islands
asking them,
American
S.
separate
chieflyof
the freedom
excuse
weak
coach
ask
to
First
Journal,that
would
will
then
was
occupying
formality.
published, which
purposes.
this
then
very
common
going
am
work, when
with
Hooker
J. D.
letter is
volcanic
send
me
say, without
obvious
far you
how
London
I
very
thought
1844, shows
23,
co-circum-wanderers
as
the
on
will let
you
...
dare
time
my
have
ago,
...
know
not
it from
to
Sir
you
of the old-world
some
little volume
hope
wasting
February
on
problems
(though myself
labourers
my
written
of
sort
aside
been
years
showing
mind
:]
do
five
acquaintanceship with
as
[The followingletter
that
have
should,
[1844.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
man
writing to."
so.
OF
the
yet done
not
Canary
he
told
Islands
me
so)
for
that the
Archipelago possessed
same
enquiry?
genera
How
of Labiatae
is it with
the
844.]
Azores
; to be
diffuse the
I
hope
attend
will
you
relation
in
it is
conclude
other
times
dissimilar
this
of
of
peculiarity
attributed
they may
plants
brown
the
from
leafless
I will trouble
with
you
Mr.
birds which
range
and
mundane,
I believe
adduce
plants;
have
genera
which
to
tinguish
dis-
the thin
islands,and
arid parts
would
mind, when
in
other
amining
ex-
are
get
mundane
that
list of
when
or
I
a
this?
mundane
thus
ranges,
do
not
the Owl
ranges.
shells
with
so
so
It
would
far
and
in those
that
suppose
you
"
Cryptogamic
ranges,
species has
genera
wide
very
species wide
Will
wide.
over
most
fresh-water
Is it not
the
of the
cussion
dis-
in
wider
and
land
of
ranges
that
In
question.
species have
cases.
most
other
one
whole
the
of the
it is with
not
only
over
many
"
also
with
occasionally thinking
trouble
to
serve
this remark
species have
holds, viz.
its genus
being
but
Galapagos plants,
the lower
Gould, I found
converse
the
floras may
Floras
hardly
of
collection.
my
might
possiblypart
two
will
of the
from
bear
to
as
these
at
remarkably
Galapagos
if not
summits
plants come
kind
so
of
; most,
cases
of
led to
remarkably
are
that
me
notes
my
been
speciesand
same
they
and
part
habitats
the
some
come
be
you
in
I fear
of
to
St. Helena
great
Floras.
much
that
occurred
the
to
of the
of
groups
S. America
or
either
are
of
sort
St. Helena
collected,I have
of mountains
it has
the
Can
with Africa
genera),or
same
and
mountain
So
confined.
more
in the presence
(sometimes
to
islands,
perceivethis
quadrupeds,
or
I have
fauna
the
isolated
affinityin
difficult to
fancy, rather
that
similar
is
of
in birds
facts,which
tend
quite superfluous)
is
hope
my
classed,
though remotely, either
some
gales would
western
say
more
plants,than
are, I
From
of
dare
(I
2$
that group.
general kind
this
I suppose
be
heavy
speciesover
though
be
the
sure
same
to
which
FLORA.
GALAPAGOS
wide
range,
oblige me
cost
phanerogamic
me
genera
the
by
vast
and
26
GROWTH
then
search
range
wide
how
far the
though perhaps
other
or
species of
the
point
Botanists.
facts,concerning the
well
species is wide,
long
hope
of my
will try to
you
and
letters,
Geology
is
have
occurred
believe
little as
me
to
it is
pretty
of
geographical range
persistenceand
as
mind,
ing
bringingto lightinterest-
the
as
to
sionally,
occa-
this in
of shells ; I think
ranges
grudge
pray
might
you
since
apt
are
genera
; but
may
is its
so
[1844.
just bear
pursuits,
established,that according
these
countries
of your
course
'ORIGIN.'
THE
in their several
in the
you
OF
duration
the
can
you
in time.
trouble
trulyyours,
very
C. Darwin.
should
P.S.
the sketch
the
feel
of Humboldt
like to have
The
"
next
him
This
at his
which
was
Down
to
intervals
meet
of
few
rendered
had
brother
health
good
could
view
Dr.
life
own
enjoyment
discuss
and
were
that
we
in
any
had
with
an
invitation
In
home
that
romps
haunts
laugh,
friends
; strolls
branch
of
followed ; and
1844 and
under
hollow
by
short
were.
every
Societythere
long walks,
one
the
one
and
with
in his
biologicalor
which
to
illnesses which
Forbes, Professor
us
with
Street ;
they
delightful
of
"
knees, music
life with
interviews
questions
knowledge
imagined
hearty manner,
of home
together,and
be
personal
in Park
long
attractive
more
with
him, between
to
and
invitations,
there
"
hands
on
not
burthen
the
notes.
breakfast
to
Naturalists.
Falconer, Edward
Waterhouse
Darwin's
invitation
that followed
such
many
often
children
lives opens
our
an
Hooker's
J. D.
(Erasmus Darwin's)house
followed
shortlyafterwards
by
hospitableand
more
point of
Mr.
with
began
still
I shall
London,
him.
Sir
of
in
brother's
oftentimes
1847, I
in the drama
act
intercourse.
from
quoted
kind offer of
your
him
portraitof
any
follows is
[What
most
; I venerate
more
extremely obligedfor
I at
were
Bell,and
with
me
the
still.
thorough
him
all
study, to
physical
any
rate
844.]
sir
left with
always
carried
the
weeks
rule
an
hour
opinion
various
on
noon,
when
name
under
my
forenoon
found
him
thick
his hand
in
always
was
walk, round
which
old
our
no
saw
this
sand-
experiment
which
fixed
conversation
walk.*
On
the
and
in
in his
both
to
I
and
in
there
sand-
taken, during
were
off
far
him
the
foreignlands
on
daily
where
to
on
my
staff
stout
garden,
of turns
things
calling
summer,
my
till about
him
joining
visit,and
ran
by telling
him
winter, and
number
called
study, when
voice
join
to
usually
books,
of
to
in
he
an
work, asking
shooting-coat
grey
was
as
his
own
ringing
was
and
me
It
concluded
more
trudged through
some
friends, old
his
in
shoulders
we
with
me,
and
days
questions botanical,
and
mellow
the
his
; away
"
rough
made
his
window
slipswith
answer,
points.
round
over
cape
had
heard
walk
of
to
me
he
progress
for
was
in
and
Latterly, as
work
my
after breakfast
heap
nothing
stagger under.
day pumped
every
so
or
for
geographical, "c,
imparted
opportunity offered.
as
he
out
27
seriouslyaffected,I
that
first brought
of the
I could
more
society
established
me
I had
enjoying
he
than
became
his health
reminiscences.
feeling that
the
more
away
hooker's
d.
j.
and
seas,
mind
and
eye.
"
he
In the afternoon
again
if not, he
where
there
till dinner
retired
seated
or
in
his
of
my
conversation
follows
Here
if well
generally managed
father's
to
on
of his
series
views, and
such
enough
with
high
join
stool
after
the
family
drawing-room,
feet in
"
which
he
enormous
enjoyed
the
family,"
of
letters
illustratingthe
nature
of
the
See
to
his
period.]
*
walk,
in the
appear
high chair,
another
was
Vol.
I. p. 115.
his
work
growth
during
this
28
GROWTH
C. Darwin
[1844.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
J. D. Hooker.
to
[1844}.
Down
The
in
areas,
been
which
divided
divided
give
organic beings,appears
forms
concomitant
well
(I
know
Secondly, from
in
swarm
what'
the
led
consider
to
organic beings
features,than
of
created
originally
will find
it
differences
half
the
speciesin
peopled.
With
forms, I
new
have
country, which
subsided
I should
But
this
exposure
country
any
expect
such
case
:
to
been
forms
cannot
to
appear
or
how
do
most
the late
into
by
portional
pro-
doubt
if
had
us
not
fully
chief
ment.
eletract
geological
periods
islands,and
reunited,
forms.
amusing only to
not
you
productionof
the
appears
within
converted
contain
as
useless,
they
seen
would
there
whether
destroyed or
isolation
oftenest
speculationsare
if I had
been
had
and
and
originalcreation
to
that
said
have
its external
have
of
in
of the
number
doubt
number
were
country
respect
Hence, with
of
of
been
I much
ing
see-
instance
on
forms, which
produced.
or
from
plants, I
and
less
depend
of
new
animals
it,and
native
spreading
country
the number
on
of all
of
and
that the
any
plants
into
most
staring exceptions),
the
often
of
the
appearance
some
introduced
number
thetical.
hypo-
very
are
seeing how
vast
there
in
changes
some
in detail ; but
of
cause
country, when
to
me
or
again
geographicaldistribution
the
to
and
justlysound
will
reasons
my
united
areas,
oftenest
have
numerous,
other
This
conditions.
is,that those
at
come
I cannot
the
most
from
isolated
process
external
the
species are
and
I have
conclusion,which
show
any
one's
and
self,
in
vation
direct line of obser-
which
hypothetical[is]the little,
844.]
MUTABILITY
unclearlywritten, I
have
reading of
the
would
Believe
it.
SPECIES.
OF
me,
"
not
have
at
last not
Yours
29
troubled
hypothetically,
sincerely,
very
Darwin.
C.
C. Darwin
with
you
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
sillyone,
it
as
the
been
have
without
be
in
of
do
of
notion
With
of
know
not
Pritchard, "c,
rubbish
books
to
; but
there
of
on
tending
towards
entitled
"
of
such
will
book
as
that
the
'
the
has
their seeds) to
(and plants,
to become
attached
to
Germanic)
(specially
or
wood-pecker
views
arise
to
from
is
make
climb
no
one
this
from
subject,I
Lamarck's,
Lyell,
'
of immutability.
good Essays,
Suites
Buffon,'
sans
never
be of
hardly
a
grouped
descended
some
their
see
'
should
should
eggs,
forms,
particular
particularobjects.
notion
and
in favour
written
Animaux
alists,
Natur-
immutability. Agassiz
Is it not
insects,which
all I
plenty, as
are
in the
mutability-side,
Zoolog. Generale."
written
have
the
then
the immutability
except
evidence,
no
viewed
to
; I must
sound
to
specieshaving
view
degree
questionof
be
can
respect
the
on
the
of
views,and
even
systematicalones,
any
is veritable
which
allied
very
number
divided
and
show
to
facts
sanguine moments,
most
able
that
"
stocks.
common
the
all my
admit
sides to
two
species;
the
under
been
it,for I have
written
my
isolated
willingto
; but
that there
of
notion
my
often
have
to
person
follow
it does
been
cracked
gave
have
it must
had
area
but
letter,
I
seems
in
species being
which
last
forget my
...
1844.
The
less
other
so
as
common
Pediculus
formed
to
believe
all
these
know,
trees.
having,
as
far
as
under
climb
domest-
GROWTH
30
OF
but
my
own.
I could
of
defend
criticism
your
the
plants :
to
island-floras
on
subject is
your
eyes,
variation
but
a
me
H.
than
at
my
views
on
Watson.
[July,1844.]
for
facts
and
delightfully,
hereafter
times
I hate
on
It is stiff German
times
some-
horrified
more
from
arguments
descent, reallyNatural
results,
History
becomes
quiz
may
leave
this
...
for I
that
Have
you
to
inflict
I must
thirteen
and
good fertilizers,
are
and
with
of another
bee
take
Cecidomya
to
seems
tired ; but
am
little more
evidence
good
any
I found
islands ?
I think
will be ten
of
book
der Natur.'
sometimes
me,
cruelly. You
me
wonderful
Bronn, 'Geschichte
it forestalls
at
in
J. D. Hooker.
to
reading
now
am
"
extent,
indeed
or
Down,
I
long for
too
considerable
some
successfullyin
C. Darwin
...
ation.
domestic-
about
hear
myself
whether
doubt
glad to
very
non-diffusion
on
letter
was
[1845.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
of insects in small
species in Keeling
I have
seen
flightfrom
far N.
as
enjoy writing
so
you.
for absence
C. Darwin
as
Flies
flower
in the
direction
countries
In Arctic
flower
any
to
Atoll.
microscopicThrips
them.
pollenadheringto
go
on
J. D. Hooker.
Shrewsbury [September,1845].
My
thank
you
and
half
far
the
I
as
it is
an
"
I write
for your
groan
battle.
can
over
How
understand
nice note.
the
true
I have
one's
translation of Humboldt's
Cosmos
in Pt.
in such
of the
own
that
justbegun
which
style,
many
say
loose
came
the wretched
expressionof
exact
line to
sheet
arrived
to
HOOKER,
DEAR
remarks
English)on
thoughts.
'
Kosmos.'
and
I.),
the introduction,
parts is full
are
as
{i.e.
the scenery
845.]
I wish
you
many
alter
not
had
have
lent
me.
you
kindly
of what
All
for
now
amusement
to
for the
specieswork
my
does
worked
out
it has
years
the
speculating on
been
of
share
due
my
subject
species.
the
anyhow
of
greatest
me.
Hooker,
dear
believe,over
I have
about
say
and
having
Farewell, my
well
in return
you
long self-acknowledgedpresumption
my
nine
lend
to
facts
variation,without
But
any
iota
one
accumulating
in
books
ever
SPECIES.
OF
MUTABILITY
prospect of
our
perceivedbut
never
grieve more
than
seldom
meeting.
so
grievously,viz. modesty ;
Sydney Smith's aphorism,that
and
fault in you,
one
you
form
merit
and
have
can
you
that
you
exception
an
modesty
have
to
no
other
C. Darwin.
Jenyns (Blomefield).
to L.
C. Darwin
Oct.
Down,
My
JENYNS,
DEAR
I have
say
not
require,in
my
the tail-end
even
leisure
some
case,
had none
I have
ingredients
thoroughly expends both.
would
keep a journaland
I
my
garden
an
idle
trees, and
and
of my
frame
manner.
same
affairs,you
I
done.
*
Mr.
Natural
shall
be
spare,
had
time
very
in
Jenyns' Observations
is
It
prefaced
History.'
"
Habits
of
with
observing as connected
study of Natural History,"and
fol-
by
an
Introduction
on
writing my
as
record.
occasionallya
glad
do
the
to
of which
Geology
always thought
to
all that
lowed
by
"
"
of such
Calendar
in
Phenomena
with
which
Remarks
in
Natural
on
the
Registers."
in
the
parish
have
you
little work
after
little walk
all your
with
in the way
afternoon
your
that
Looking
very
every
see
to
sorry
both
but
everything,
record
to
am
[1845].
English Zoology
energy,
surprised that
had
have
and
to
2th
observations
trifling
even
mind, fills up
am
note.
fact in
nothing
now
of
that
found
I have
communicate.
to
for your
Thanks
"
(and
of Periodic
History,"
importance
GROWTH
32
should
proud
I have
work
it). My
to
intended
the
subject,on
working
which
am
of nature.
have
checks
and
what
the
given species
calculate
the
increase
of
bird, if you
accidents)life
individuals
become
surprised to
think
occasionally
be
of such
period
I
of
what
think
draw
can
animals
know
species
have
is
I shall
present
pick
up
structure
not
am
from
or
conclusions.
slowly
that
been
at
least
this
subject
Geology
of South
publish
on
the
your
instincts
on
book
in the
some
facts
animals
Believe
for
for
several
America.
on
ever
or
and
the
on
question
facts,and
general
clusions
con-
directly
that
and
such
I
clusion,
con-
deliberatelycome
of your
me,
much
stocks.
common
and
of
us.
from
reproach
honestly
natural
means
mutable,
are
from
to
of
The
driven
species
myself
open
I have
but
it.
the
on
body
grand
only
collectingfacts
plants, and
co-descendants
are
much
how
have
sound
opposite conviction,
allied
and
Just
annually
miist
and
"
been
scarcely perceived by
steadilyreading
some
which
at
is
life,
number
have
species,yet
every
destruction
species.
are
and
of
the
the
parents
destruction
great
falling on
of domestic
variation
of the
it ;
on
that
within
one
you
is limited.
assume
breed
enormous,
how
continued
have
these
is
perhaps
periods
of any
reared, and
one
thought
increase
are
your
There
ever
the
the young
as
me
make
which
by which
half
works
facts which
if you
any
impressed
pleased generally
curious, and
on,
single fact
has
are
the
economy
very
the
are
added
all such
people
are
or
light
some
what
namely,
what
These
the
throw
may
of
importance
triflingfacts.
understand
have
species question
containing
one,
call
to
the
on
forciblywith
very
if I could
been
[1845.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
years.
I
hope
slightvariations
acquaintance.
yours,
C. Darwin.
to
At
to
in
1845.]
STRUGGLE
FOR
C. D arzvii1
LIFE.
33
Jenyns*
to L.
Down, [1845?].
My
trouble
the
a
JENYNS,
DEAR
have
you
The
the
increase
of
species.
parish?
natural
the
young
check
must
for, if
one
bred, how
which
of passage
come
here
decreased
the
with the
same
numbers,
one
probable)that
in the
be
here
winter
period. If
at
II.
your
from
that
suppose
and
shown
and
one's
that
has, however,
ignorance,when
statistics to
apparentlythe
in the
return
increase,
ceeding
suc-
annually,
greatly
know
seems
(as indeed
chieflyon full-grownbirds
on
appeared to
birds
those that
with
return
jecture
con-
births
to
non-breedingseason
not
reared
are
number, whereas
fell
any
life ;
species'
One
is without
same
_* Rev.
VOL.
to
progeny
!
increase
would
season,
time
effect
far distant
of each
numbers, but
check
any
birds
rooks, what
percentage of deaths
and
the
has
birds, which
and
sparrow
surpriseat
breed here
in about
years
come
much
If it could
in mankind.
most
our
fact of old
is too
one
half the
only
of life and
the duration
of
par
it shows
immigrate into
time
some
impossibleit
how
me
in number
now
and
is the
so
habits
check
heavilyat
feel
to
answering
sparrows
which
rook
enormous
to
the
being thus
remains
originaldifficulty
; for
England
calculates that
knows
one
of
how
for
long
so
thought of the
never
killed your
thus far
fall
business
no
the
limits of the
are
had
you
me
appears
bare
of local gaps
of those
in the middle
the
and
but
But
not
become
have
would
had
farmers
of the
aware
was
and
are
clearlypoint out,
so
written
having
in
difficulty
our
their young,
drivingaway
you
in
obliged to
given speciesfalls
reallyignorantwe
familiar
much
very
taken
and
interesting,
ticularly
how
am
note.
to
"
the
me
remarks
eggs
often
on
and
the
this
most
very
young
probable
subjectshould
L. Blomefield.
D
34
GROWTH
to
occur
OF
I should
you,
be
[1845?
'ORIGIN.'
THE
benefit of
the
gratefulfor
most
them.
With
have
to
to
respect
that
inevitable.
I meant
to
have
They
alone
expect
than
never
sides
two
more
i.e. whether
the
the
approach
I should
why
be
hard
the
islands, such
a
for
of
the
from
the
appear)that
this must
and
other
deliberate
me
believe
I cannot
as
tell,
my
Pray
there
do
are
they appear
not
numerous
to
me
think
that
am
of the
in
books
and
I
co-
people
varieties
new
conditions
a
bold
of life
to
man
so
the
lay
most
make
blind
common
far
by degrees,
from
remote
more
am
grounds which
as
not
difficulties in my
on
light
and
fall away
reasons
immense
less than
throw
long searching
in which
mutable
speciesare
that
me
complete fool,and
the nature
applied to speciesmore
other.
but
that
extend
when
that
From
one.
to
species being
A
cannot
they
being thought
and
adjoining
on
would
the external
surrounding beings.
to
mining
deter-
absurdlypresumptuous
the way
see
exquisitelyadapted to
myself open
and
related
how
not
America,
occurred
stock.
become
to
South
It
of
intermediate
between
relationship
in
know
are
doings it would
my
horticultural
(I well
believe
me
the
as
common
but (though
varieties,
are
Continent
view
there
in
difficulty
analogous facts
and
agricultural
amongst
of the
Galapagos.
all such
weighing
I did
individuals).
mammifers
the
that
by
or
historyof
facts
such
against
or
descendants
makes
such
livingon
as
collection
either
what
were
immutability of species,
of
death
you
day-dream,
show
to
the
speciesand
extinct
those
able
side
give you
livingand
wildest
my
the
say)from
to
between
life and
are
I led
of
years
directlycreated
subjecton
what
in
be
to
species are
(as with
laws
but
must
conclusions
my
after
so,
question of
the
to
that
say
become
puzzles,to myself
species,I
on
singularinaccuracy if
with
expressed myself
suppose
work
far distant
my
view.
each
to
see
notions,
I have
1846.]
drawn
sketch
up
thankful
this very
Excuse
which
by
future
some
of
Yours
most
critic.
letter,
ill-written
believe
into,and
me
my
you
be
competent
so
led
have
you
that
time
course,
and
egotistical
and
long
pages) of
criticism
remarks
your
35
reading,I should, of
the
have
to
it
thought at
it worth
think
had
and
if I
conclusions ; and
would
JENYNS' 'OBSERVATIONS.'
MR.
me,
truly,
very
C. Darwin,
C. Darwin
to
L.
Jenyns,
Down, Oct. 17th,1846.
Dear
of
Jenyns,
in
time
'
your
thanking
But
Observations.'
I found
which
is
than
good
of the
'
would
on
The
I
make
he would
remarks
and
sparrows
with
on
remember
the
he
been
having lately
skimming
of
Gloger
speciesout
of
could
limbs,"c.
in beaks
the
as
and
of every
Brehm
common
over
being
discussion,
saying you
and
barometer,
had
also
hoped
the amount
Smith
of
once
specimens of larks
detect any
This
very
firstnumber
one
and
parts of Great Britain,
or
conclusions
dozen
all
animals
me
your
weather
hundreds
some
finest measurements,
variations
from
from
get
of your
days
interested,
struck
declared
few
of the lower
some
in hand
many
more
preliminaryessay to
Natural
History.' I missed
some
had
only a
was
introduction
for
myself ill-used,
think
and
of
Annals
have
yours
I think
higher ones.
quite delightedwith
to
present of
kind
very
finished
notes
your
this is what
; but
your
happened
have
much.
me
odd, with
the
on
ungratefullength
most
pleasantreading, and
it very
interested
facts
for
you
taken
I have
"
whether,
see
proportional
point interests
me
the
; the
absurdlyopposite
one
making half-a-
bird, and
the
D
other
36
GROWTH
turning so
done
anything of
Brehm's
or
many
this kind,
works
martins, for
I had
noticingjust such
the
on
before
just
been
proceeding
in
as
adjoiningwall.
I may
within
that
so
I must
tell you
Cam,
in
I found
each
hand, when
I
lose
to
and
lo and
behold
not
bear
was
out
Panag"us
to
Planaria
of
quite a
broken
that
for about
and
the Southern
fact.
the way,
fever,or
By
flukes
serioiis
any
all the
man
hope
I had
seen
days, and
looking
you
extremely,and
we
it did
never
*
the
none
were
you
The
despair
teeth,when
my
to
little inconsiderate
the
two
or
Carabi, and
that in
so
between
I lost both
ago
of
hear
to
Carabi
I described
me
you
:
been
meeting of
to
the
trial
terres-
in the
thought
father
my
be
the flukes in
enjoyed
you
much
of each
aver
evacuated.
Southampton
I missed
limb, will
broken
with
it
sheep with
to
case
fatter.
see
worms
for
worse
of
heard
I have
good.
managed
speak
accident,as
rather
and
Hemisphere,
intestinal
question;
astonished
year
Panagcens crux
either of my
throat,and
my
sacred
saw
pain
speciesof
and
of the
banks
the
on
rostratus
pain ;
extreme
me
maggot
Natural
new
in
Cychrus
give up
quite
was
cause
Carabi
acid down
Panagceus !
terrestrial
to
of the
of the
one
squirtedhis
Annals
semi-transparent
for the
me
some
saw
once
oak-leaves
gave
happened
unspeakable disgust
beast
'
what
I could
gently seized
my
and
eyes
stickingdirt
my
bark
major
my
of
little
I counted
and
that I
insectivorous.
they are
squirted into
once
describe
you
mention
back
the
of the
utterly perplexed by
Gloger's
account
your
ever
you
studied
ever
you
interested
was
Have
one.
one
seven,
have
or
[1 84.6.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
the
I wish
my
week
last few
other
; but
849.]
there
VARIABILITY.
anythingof
believe
present, and
kind
for your
Once
one.
any
I for
many
so
were
37
again
the
I thank
hardly
one
pleasure it
cordially
very
you
has
saw
and
given me,
me,
Ever
truly yours,
most
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I have
"
with
was
will
your
Natural
say how
discussion
statistics of
History
will be
discuss
greatlyinterested
quite forgottento
the
on
be
such
perfectthat
so
known
perfectly
C. Darwin
about
animals
animal
one
any
last
At
first-fruitof
had
on
ask
have
felt
been
struck
difficulties
some
every
When
the
many
more.
part in
same
is
parts of the
in
Systematic
On
the
of
would
be
though
speculatist,
remarks
on
Himalayan
northern
the
odious
distinctness
Rubi,
me
any
are
small
share
"
hand, I have
class)with
thought
of
the
every
in
as
same
for
do
mould.
this
founded
con-
as
pleasant to me
systematist.Your
compared
to
leading
of
the
those
of
me)
with
interesting
;
in
the
same
it not
is
minute
(than they
the
(so unpleasant
very
much
species from
were
willows, "c,
[Europe ?],"c,
had
species-sketch
to
the
in
think
other
resemble
more
easy
unculate
ped-
studying species
not
I had
Cirripedia)objects cast
work
fossil
the
and
slightvariability,
diagnosis
species
same
poor
rigorouslycompared
some
always dangerous.
[1849].
small
slight degree
is
organ
the
consequently that
anyhow
do
some
differences
; I
variabilityof
species.
effect
what
variation theories
my
with
press
Cirripedia,viz.
cirripedia.You
has
to
confounded
my
you
J. D. Hooker.
to
going
am
as
Malvern, June 13
...
when
points
if my
you
to
rude
these
38
may
strange
so
extremely glad
you
are
have
you
an
must
love.
cost
May
neglect of
cordial
effort.
with
am
it
again, though
him
is
way,
thing
any-
letters ; I
your
must
one
man
Hooker.
dear
my
affectionate
Your
heard
never
Falconer
in every
prosper
you
ample service,and
and
good
in peace.
Falconer's
as
[1849.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
GROWTH
friend,
C. Darwin.
C. Danvin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
.
thanks
Many
always,set
as
for your
stinginessin changes
liberal
towards
sake
the
have
of
sink
to
into the
of
extent
the
I must
identity of
Edward
on
animals
in
known
was
distribution
the
been
have
His
Report
of
marine
in my
father's 'Autobiography,'
p. 88. He
held successively
tor
the posts of Curamemoir
to
of his
the
Museum,
Historyin
and
is referred to
Geological Society's
Professor
the Museum
of Natural
of Practical
true
one)
periodof existing
there is
not
am
like better
amount
no
fullyprepared
evidence,than
possibly(I do
transported.
not
say
Particular
have
to
seems
pressed
im-
his
in the
depths
An
important
Mediterranean.
otherwise
the
the
But
I should
his
different
at
within
I trust
plants,which
few
and
distinct evidence.
some
level,which
say
Forbes, born
Isle of Man
best
of
so
surface,for
mother-earth's
of surface.
tract
my
Forbes,* being
phenomenon,
ocean,
at
must
without
bold
attack
at your
towards
our
one
so
depths of
probably)might
*
it
change
admit, but
to
but
done
so
large a
species,
or
level
explainingany
stillthink
I must
So
laughed
upheaved
or
seldom
very
of
myself;
let down
never
thinking:
me
which,
yesterday,
letter received
of
man
contemporaries as a
strikinglyversatile and
vigorous mind.
The
changes
Forbes's tendency
facts
by
of
means
above
of level
to
sion
allu-
refers
to
explain the
geographicaldistribution
of an
active geological
imagination.
to
I853-]
LAMARCK,
thanks
for your
almost
equal
misdoubted
thanks
him,
I
his facts.
to
attempt
for
find
get
this
rightto
examine
described
that
was
of
collected.
History,and
species,and
union) ;
I
and
know
their
be
to
My
species,at least
in
clever work
and,
as
in the
(some
the
bear
to
fully
pain-
hardly a
minutely
not
Owen
of
get
(as
to
mean
branches
work
out
my
more
work.
of, of
than
half-pennies,
Lamarck
is the
who
Kingdom,
he
has
in his absurd
Mr.
has
as
of
believed
dis-
though
Vestiges,
attempting the
Mr.
only
describer
accurate
an
naturalist
there
question,
in several
subject harm,
loose
that
the
on
is
dabbled
species,but
future
has
subject,and
Invertebrate
done
has
one
good specificmen
think
permanent
has
no
comfort
only
seen
I shall
can
gospel
as
mutability in species),
any
brought
will,life serving,
attempt my
exception,that
take
to
rather
credibility.How
fair
very
something
though
and
my
that I have
attempt the subject),
of Natural
him
was
of facts to
mass
hitherto
not
it
L'Espece,'*
on
questionof specieswho
I was,
thought
'
inclined
remark, that
vehemently opposed
he
a
the
many.
is
(who
is your
true
of
copy
much
foreignauthors,viz. judging of
(to me)
39
criticisms
your
one
VESTIGES.'
me
felt not
and
'
THE
same
D.
.
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
September 25th [1853].
Down,
My
DEAR
interest ; it
introduction
world.
How
HOOKER,
seems
to the
few
I have
all very
New
read
clear,and
Zealand
will form
are
to
an
any
among
1848-49,
and
separate book
in
in
with
paper
your
Flora, or
generalizersthere
Probably Godron's
lished by the Academy
*
"
great
admirable
Flora
in the
systematists;
afterwards
1859.
as
GROWTH
40
other
hostile
and
of
far
as
discuss
to
the wind
to
The
whole
I undertake
In
of
deal
in
"
much
difference
the
one
should
have
should
I
felt it
have
examining
been
MS.,
my
and
fine
too
set
has
teeth, cursed
species,and
be
the
so
of forms
happened
punished.
thing would
same
non-permanence),
as
asked
I must
But
have
cases
Certainly
doubting,
mind
own
the
to-day
it,as Snagsby
distinct
and
then
tearing
species,
have
what
sin
confess
happened
them
making
me),
to
me
up
one
gnashed
I had
that
or
would
tearing that
species,
one
to
few
some
varied
form
separate, and
again (which
to
cases
varieties.
point on
them
making
them
making
and
few
in my
the
great
"
some
in
and
remarkable
whether
of
me
for
you
made
; in
again,when
over
yesterday(notto put
arguing
specieshas
humiliating,discussing and
has
of
felt conscious
not
of
other
names,
to
least
I have
the doctrine
on
names
and
over
doubt
only
give the
thank
way,
at
or
"
the
or
affixed
affixed
the
permanence
mere
way
have
not
one
work
own
(ifpublishingavowedly
I
ail nuts
to
instead
could),
(by
; it does
my
disbelievingin
as
work
Cirripedial
good)
take
alone.
of soft solder
the dose
determined
time
(as far
both sides
on
own
my
sails ; it will be
of my
some
you
useful
will be very
mutability side
the
that
for
in which
way
my
completelyout
very
arguments
on
subject is unique.
put, and,
well
very
candid
for I have
me
me
the
whenever
me
to
appear
facts.
of
collections
large
on
experiencegoes,
my
the
reasoning
arguments
your
as
is
in
systematisingand
Many
there
reallysuspect
[1853.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
my
committed
perhaps nearly
on
scheme
any
of work.
I
heartily glad
am
advanced
In
'
Bleak
how
to
hear
your
magnificentlyit
House.'
Sir
J. D.
Journal f
to
seems
Hooker's
'
be
is
so
much
illustrated !
Himalayan Journal.'
853.]
'
too
much
regard
I think
lots
but
Journal of
whether
"in
the
imagination
Naturalist
not
species!
'
in the East
would
Himalaya"
rather
sounds
and
discuss
to
man
a
C. Darwin
of
to
title of
your
good;
FLORA.
Naturalist',with
Oriental
An
very
ZEALAND
NEW
be
not
vague.
J. D. Hooker.
to
[1853.]
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
sending
indeed,
you,
nor,
how
perfectand
judgment
as
my
on
the
with
time
digestan
to
almost
have
taken
I much
up.
on
I have
believe
been
thank
Mrs.
see
seeingyou
almost
You
do
me
putting me
two's
and
not
reallymore
after
let
have
more.
made
me
points
been
different,
I could
have
intended
to
New
shall
be
Zealand
memoir
and
my
not
enjoy
and
essay,
which
your
I
hurry.
to
wish
your
without
pass
it much.
I have
any
downs.
species book
Flora,'1853.
slightest
in it when
summer
than
at
of the
whole
me
provincial
for
sincerely
I should
ups
the
the
deep
another
on
to
been
by
was
honour
Lyell
time, when
*
given
yourselfmost
for indeed
Kew,
in
no
some
I had
arrived, begging
note
I will
at
I could
memorable.
Hooker
me.
far
requiremuch
answer
having produced
on
considerate
most
wish
have
deeply interested
you
will be
As
discussion
say
sidering
con-
congratulate
or
not
which
points
some
species-mongers. I
to
; but
say
could
can
I should
have liked to have
theoretically
partlyfrom seeing so far better done than
done, discussions
use
quality. It
feelingI
it is.*
important
published.
of such
essay
should,
essay
most
everythingyou
gloomy, partlyfrom
and
an
all worth
at
likelythat
elaborated
it is the
goes,
remarks
no
it
was
I agree
which
have
"
claim
In
to,
year
(ifI
do
42
GROWTH
break
not
down), I
having put
so
OF
shall
'ORIGIN.'
THE
gnash
hostile facts
many
Ever
teeth
my
[1854.
abuse
and
for
you
confoundedlywell.
affectionately,
so
yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
had
I had
far
very
from
(and somewhat
the
contrite)for
most
to
interesting
glad indeed
in the
deeply interested
to
wife, how
my
nearlyall
to
which, as
far
only two
will
then
as
; I
old and
come
making
to
up
then
an
The
to
average
to
go
PhilosophicalClub,
which
father
my
Professor
elected
was
to
(as
good enough
me)
April24, 1854. He
resigned his membership in 1864.
to
Bonney
inform
on
The
Club
The
number
limited
christen
the
from
of the
of
47,
it
name
nature
was
to
was
"
it
the
never
of the Club
in
founded
is to
being
proposed to
was
Club
of
47,"
but
The
adopted.
may be gathered
"
The
promote
purpose
as much
Club,
my
exact
(with
Natural
rare
think,will allow
meeting.
between
the
it is
But
those
Fellows
in cultivating
various
branches
Science, and
who
of
have
contributed
to its progress
crease
; to inthe attendance at the evening
1847.
members
the
activelyengaged
are
to
acquaintances.
every
head,
intercourse
who
regretting
answer
for
is
am
endeavour
new
other
every
reforms,
thinkingof
some
my
in
me
Club,* I
was
I would
London
this
being dropped by
goes, would
thing
one
any
not
was
of the
ago, I
and
London
therefore
on
days
that
exceptions)Club-day, and
me
three
received
the
to
respect
lettingdrop
was
object in keeping up
I
or
hear
to
acquaintances,and
my
oftener
go
obliged
more
and
many
"c,
seems
letter
news
very
the
have
this
long
juicywith
am
would
you
am
[1854].
the
morning,most
ways.
26th
Journal,but
; and
case
that
hoped
little breathing-time
after your
be
to
HOOKER,"
DEAR
March
meetings, and
contribution
papers."
at
6,
to
and
The
and
discussion
Club
the
the
encourage
for dinner
met
chair
of
was
to
be
members
would
Royal Society.
dinner
has been
meeting in
at
go
to
the
Of
the afternoon.
8 54-]
HUMBOLDT
often
grievoushow
attend
not
the Club
about
so
Glaciers.
very
soon
several,in
small
our
I shall be curious
should
hear
hear
than
one,
which
other
any
has
wonderful
when
the
bad
and
new
fellow
have
feel any
the
on
and
It is
; it does
hear
singularit is that
immense
knowledge
write
development,
him,
all the
"c.
"c,
North
man
he is.
remarks
on
Of the
was
told
that
me
he
to
went
that
delightful,
true."
without
been
I seldom
such
History,
so
was
progressive
could
see
and
help
Zoological
not
observingthe impress
another
proof,by
pleased
and
the way,
surprised to
collectingfacts
Himalayan Journal.
with
afterwards
he
for these
Henslow's
very
he
on
him
how
Natural
of
in confusion
man,
on
varieties,
crossing,obliterating
I have
*
that
so
clever
am
caution
your
me
lectures
(Agassiz')
America,
"
know,
his
Gray'sletter
Agassiz
on
all
strange
so
uncomfortable.
branches
Lyell
wishing it was
Agassiz' doctrines,
a
many
will
that
hear
his and
hope,
health.
overwhelm
on
you
Asa
me
see
eminently
May,
; it is
feel deuced
me
does.
was
to
of
his
sending
To
grieved to
about
so
of
one
that it
time
from
paper
"
he
as
delighted with
told
for
writes.
make
end
What
him.
way,
the
By
the
am
remember
cannot
with
will,I
it
praise from
more
left Henslow
species-questionought
to
delightful
should
not
you
pleasantlyhe
shame
...
uneasiness
particularly
obligedto
very
is.
rest.
some
symptoms
to
he
of
pleasure.
will say
common
Edit.*
heard
much
very
Travels, for I
of
subjectsin
many
have
to
book
answers
second
I have
with
meet
Hitcham,| towards
to
go
be forced
so
old
you
how
and
for
of the
Humboldt
what
encumber
worst
thanks
circle,
reading it with
to
year, if I did
elected,I certainly
for
surprised,
not
am
think,delight him,
him
glad to
very
at
me
many
but
get
can
pleased. Very
am
I will further
up.
I should
that
If you
temporarily.
much
me
pretty often,so
shall be very
43
knocks
change
any
I told
pledge myself,as
AGASSIZ.
"
of how
see
A.
great
Gray's
which, as
dozen
of
you
years.
living.
GROWTH
44
awfullyflat
How
feel,if,when
I shall
whole
on
puff-ball.Do
work
not
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
[1854.
like
thing explodes
yourselfto
Ever
together
notes
get my
empty
an
death.
truly,
most
yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
yesterday.
Hooker
Mrs.
her
send
to
in Great
is
cordial
Britain
to
the
see
E. desires
I
congratulations.
...
of my
bottom
very
which
I fear
much
heart
shall
I have
you
goes
badly, and
have
to
Without
(and
that
others
the
speech,
have
you
that all is
tangibleproof,that
some
from
pity you
I believe
I do
particularly
me
pleasantlittle stimulus
ruminates
one
claims.
after-dinner
your
hear.
not
about
whether
highest scientific
recogniseyour
pleased,and
note
get your
and
heartily,*
very
I rejoiceto
little,
or
judgment-court
hope
delighted
was
congratulateyou
much
care
you
"
5th [1854].
Nov.
Down,
you
very
have),
; when
work
vanity,it is pleasant
have
thing
thought some-
of one's labours.
Good-bye,
both
dear
my
Hooker,
trulyenjoyed
most
I
and
your
can
[you] that
assure
Mrs.
we
visit here.
Hooker's
Farewell.
dear
My
Hooker,
your
friend,
sincere
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
March
On
just
Maderensia
Insecta
*
have
...
the
award
to
finished
'
him
it is
of
the
born
Thomas
March
Vernon
9, 1821
well
admirable
an
Wollaston,
died Jan. 4,
Wollaston's
work.
There
health
1878. His
manhood
early
the
a
south, he
study
of
[1855].
at
in
Medal.
Royal Society's
working
forcing
to
devoted
the
is
f
a
him
winter
in
himself
to
Coleoptera
of
I855-]
IXSECTA
that
of
sea
to
small
danger, and
even
considerablygreater
of
and
"sure
course
But
to
be
here
the
than
Madeira
and
certain
witnesses
other
the
eyes
it would
such
blown
the
to
exposed
more
It is
to
apterous insects
Archipelagoes as
old
is
Wollaston
proper.
being
continent," and
follows
implicitly
directlyopposite
see
of
difficult to
be
view.
still
of Forbes'
my
to
reason,
insects inhabiting
be
to
Madeira
on
Entomologicalworld
to
be
proportion
the
opposed
them
expose
the
guessed
injuriousto
would
islet,
this
speaks
I have
flightwould
and
locality,
quite
I think
the Dezerte
this,I find that the insects inhabiting
test
Grande,
45
; and
apterous
are
the
point in
curious
very
MADERENSIA.
this view.
facts
imagine
reallydisgusting and
conclusions
of
more
iating
humil-
from
drawn
the
facts.
same
I have
and
had
other
(2) that
now,
the
old
time
down
reach
to
I shall
the
and
in support
submerged
the
'Atlantis.'
by
is
Mr.
In
Rye
described
"
upon
the
science
while
time
de
an
or
dozen
Verdes,
he deduced
of
of
continent
obituary
of
the
of
of
score
notice
when
which
being
"accurate,
at
was
the
elaborate,
precisead fiunctum,
and
and
naturally
had
points of land
and
in
yet
Wollaston
years
written
was
paper
His
he
at
the
he
University,
and
genera
minutelycritical habit."
afterwards
('Nature,'1878)
as
tently the Ray Club
working persisa broad
conceptionof
societywhich
to
land
was
an
undergraduate at
Jesus College,Cambridge. While
he
he
and
the
the
assumptions ?
first scientific
belief
the
Africa
or
of
centres
(4) that
families
jollylot
next
evidence
in
these
not
Cape
certain
Europe
for the
see
Madeira,
before
than
destroyed before
was
diffuse,and
to
(i)that
powers
in
this
on
coolly assumes,
speciallyrich
was
time
from
Are
question.
land
uniting land
had
specialcreations
broken
Wollaston
was
I find that he
subjects,and
formerly insects
with
correspondence
some
where
this
an
Member
is
still meets
the
of
small
once
undergraduate
Associates,
receive
kindly encouragement
from
members,
much
ciate
Asso-
was
their elders.
or
46
quoted
proving
as
former
the
[1855.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
GROWTH
of
existence
Forbes'
poor
Atlantis.
I
I have
hope
its
this
about
like to hear
wearied
not
book, which
the author
and
facts,
but
you,
me
excellent in
as
modest
Most
would
thought you
strikes
nice and
most
man.
truly yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
D.
W.
to
Fox.
My
long
and
reallywant
; but
my
immediate
communication,
goes
with
observe
busy
you
a
of your
point
with
man
doing
quite idle
it is since
How
Fox,
dear
"
for me,
much
too
As
it would
as
that you
have
pigeons. (How
order
some
two
now
have
you
how
object is
I know
as
to
I want,
what
man.
and
have
we
hear
to
be
Noah's
I wish
had
any
the
to
ask
you
are
world
very
chance
hopelessto
I do
to
you
good
Ark,
by
19th [1855].
March
Down,
ask
doubt
not
chance
they were
what
I want
to know
fantails !) Now
is,at what age nestling
developed to be
pigeons have their tail feathers sufficiently
I do not think I ever
a
counted.
saw
pigeon. I am
young
and
notes
at my
hard at work
collecting
comparing them, in
in
facts and
arguments, which
breeds, to
differences
amusement
young
from
their
and
see
I go
Yarrell,I
development,
therefore
be
not
to
expose
point of
respect
course
in the adult
fantail.
one
If you
had
and
young
I have
our
excessive
to
be cheated
tail
breed
heard
something
of
of
about
ignorance,
and
gulled.
feathers,it
development of
any
of
what
my
the
the
versus
know
to
liable
excessively
the
the
degree the
myself (which is no
to
whom
seller,
With
to
breed
reallyanxious
am
and
me)
to
a
book
get the
to
either
to
collect,
for
can
young,
horrid bore
before
; and
write
to
want
how
I must
appear.
but
species. I
of
immutability
domestic
three years
or
any
is of
tail feathers
poultrypure,
I855-]
FEATHERS
beg
would
chicken with
old ! to be sent
be very
I should
for I
wild
comparing
have
otherwise
is that I have
for
took
and
went,
Fox, but
Mrs.
see
first
down
put
the weather
when
both
could
hope
before
I do
to
us
pay
gettingoldish.
family.
know
I
*
"
you
I have
what
tically
parts ;
wild
of
and
on
long
Time
tell
us
tame
duck
well-boiled,
high
frost
help
skeleton
me
of
(oh,the smell
! !) and
I
duck
say ;
we
myself
boys
very
of ailments.
of
air, we
just
went
and
all the
thingsto do,
had
we
I had
time.
We
to
and
go
time
some
to
out
in when
E.
ill
Partly
it turned
set
improve,we
you
will be
able
slippingaway,
about
little
our
nearly
is
disuse
have
to
see
day
not
out.
very
will
of
whooping cough,
month, but
not
the
barnacles.
everlasting
all sorts
list of
our
go
Do
to
would
visit.
the
after waiting
literally
whether
we
of
two
rheumatism
and
duck
dreadful
children
our
colds
and
coughs
had
all
fully,
care-
having largely
much
not
with
for
house
results
very
little wild
and
bones
tame
with the
had
we
the
impossible.
the
bronchitis,and
and
amusement,
London
house
of the year
end
fever
with
at
pigeon sent,
I think
of the
get
Far
Indeed,
proportional
weights of
is almost
all well.
are
the heart
.
night
fort-
or
already justbegun
And
I could
noisy
terribly
have
ourselves, I have
to
have
postage
the several
weighing
on
could
pay
ducks.
tame
I wish
How
me
week
nestlingcommon
foot
respect
the
greatlyvaried,the
now
but
and
With
At
have
the
increased.
week
let
perfectlycleaned
when
have
by post, ifyou
box
to
47
stated,about
age
skeletons,and
curious,*for
rather
two
glad
make
to
mean
exact
secondly,would
; and
to kill one
in
SKELETONS.
"
yourselfand
if you
can
cording
have
and
manage
we
all your
with
to
are
large
information
to scale of wild
prototype,
its two
"
48
the young
about
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
GROWTH
and
pigeons;
[1855.
write before very
do
anyhow
long.
dear
My
Fox,
sincere
your
old friend,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
all sorts
Amongst
"
amusing myself,I
of
had
plants.I
to
gave
thrown
was
it to you
was
if not
I should
from
extract
[The following
the
to
thingswill be
young
teaspoon of ether
on
have
moths
and
such
write
and
am
such
sure
very
would
do
old
hens
old
as
be
addressed
rail,
buy
I should
you,
has
to
the
have
beg
you
persuaded
leave
The
way
gives
I shall kill
tumbler
for
them
just tie up
word
know
going
am
glasswith
hour
an
(I have
would
with
to
'
old
me
killed
be to send
them
to
care
I do
not
at
once
even
at
take
trouble
die
send
that
trouble
; and
or
her
if I had
about
I
much
so
; should
become
to
me
per
for
make
not
shortest
as
this,as
now
skeletons.
heard
pigeons,for
am
so
Acton, Post-office,
Baily'sto
attempt it,and
such
thing more
this address
dead
will
one
care
on
account
an
kill babies
as
of Mr.
keep
you
birds
to
take
to
as
would
you
you
hardly believe
can
ask
to
and
keep
to
soul
one
C. Darwin,
written
not
two,
or
thus
string;
I wish
7iseless,
Will
Bromley, Kent.'
for parcels. But
way
could
:"
"
it.
(March 27th,
letter,and
under
good-natured
not
above
of any
be
Fox
it
pinch of
last
disagreeablething
I do
one
the
best way
my
so
very
so.
to
and
Upon
could
do
to Mr.
happier by allowing me
me
postage, "c.
one
of
glad
to
could
you
of the variations
thousand
of revivification.
power
The
butterflies.)
reallymake
any
put them
am
or
procure
you
which
of
to
letter
specieswork
be very
yieldingsurface,and
some
young
as
"
seeds
It is
subjectas
same
of the
account
some
the
which
ends, with
wild
formerlysome
away,
1855) refers
and
comparing
am
one,
some
of odds
from
Yarrell
fitting
up
85 5.]
(when
a
written
have
place,and
littleabout
where
you
I did
not
even
fowl
how
know
they differ?
do
forgetwhether
present work
"
"
time
Some-
much
was
to
called ?
so
"c.
hear
And
ignorant
so
varieties of
Dorking
told
ever
why
three
were
what
you
view
it is to
is,
like very
it is like ?
there
49
prices,"c.
should
"
your
Baily about
to
better)I
are
you
SPECIES.
OF
MUTABILITY
the
objectof
my
master
can
speciesare
number
subjectwill
very
very
health
be
am
with
happy
all the
One
of
foot
revere.
of which
memory
which
wholly
glad to
hear
duties.
How
Farewell,my
for your
futurityon
the
to
owe
that you
much
dear
have
the
letter. I
of
account
an
am
your
and
precious,
it
goodness
to
be
noble
like the
willow
find my
ought
to
you
assure
old Crux-
stumps, the
littleentomology,
in very
useful.
a
givenyourself
illness
Fox.
now
comes
you,
whether
one.
of those
I
givingme
reasonablybe expected
can
as
my
life is very
activityand
and
I have
me.
happy
as
or
utmost
my
sides.
often doubt
largefamily your
cares
way,
indifferent
so
all your
one,
cannot
major days
hear
your
both
on
quasi-businesspart of
to
sorry
sure
with
for the
with
; but
with
mean
in every
quiteoverpower
not
much
So
assistance
valuable
most
facts
to
power
immutable
or
rest
have
had
you
I thank
am
from
in
very
Sunday
your
life !
heartily
you
assistance."]
proffered
C. Darwin
to W.
D. Fox.
Down, May 7th [1855].
My
DEAR
Fox,
"
My correspondencehas
trouble,
though this note
VOL.
II.
will not.
cost
I found yours
you
on
my
E
deal of
return
50
OF
GROWTH
home
'on
there
all
saw
told
Call
Duck,
freelywith
of the old
glad
for
birds,should
one
duck
be
able to
measure
for
with
for
crossed
I should
make
death.
business
but
them,
of
have
Very
feared
good
any
you
turkey
baby
key,
tur-
offer.
salt,and
colts
young
it
I will
wild
for your
in
of
I shall be
for
care
greyhound
race-horse
Most
not
thanks
many
old
an
am
age
thought,and
Should
; I do
me
I shall do
depth.
what
the
nobody, I
I suppose
one
Yarrell
the characteristic
skeletons,I
to
for
forty varieties
you
of old cocks.
and
Whether
of my
that it had
natural
to
than
me
respect
mastiff.
cart-horse
out
return
puppies of bull-dogsand
have
had
die
just confirms
skeletons
nor
doubt
any
James's Park.
collected
die,pleaseremember
ever
feel
not
old cocks
about
my
examined
carefully
did
in St.
ever
Well, to
impossibleto
would
make
fix better
could
little chickens
say
had
Whilst
seven-days'ducklingand
had
Sabine
that
me
sure,
and
varieties
common
therefore be very
common
he
me
[1855.
in London.
and
identical,
being specifically
it
told
work
week's
Yarrell,who
in the
points
about
after
Saturday
'ORIGIN.'
THE
I have
sured.
carefullymea-
I doubt.
am
getting
trulyyours,
C. Darwin.
[An
from
extract
here,though of
"
Many
horrors
later
letter to
'
done
angelic littlefantail,and
and
ether
the
a
for the
deed
at
ten
and
first,
Dorking, and
bottle,half
an
hour
before
'
even
and
chamber
than
more
murdered
an
place
old white
kindness
black
pouter
find
may
gettingquite
am
appreciateyour
chloroform
days
seven
promised ones.
Fox
Mr.
date,viz. July,1855
for the
thanks
putting
in
the
a
second
very
the
large
pigeon,
1855.]
prussicacid
the
and
FANCYING.
PIGEON
thus
gas
51
generated
was
quickly
very
fatal."
letter
mention
of
Fox
Mr.
to
father's laborious
my
the
(May
piece
of
work
first
the
on
breeding of pigeons :
I write
"
to
now
say
that I have
I should
our
well.
do very
for years,
of
yotuig
I have
of actual
I
believe
and
measurement
sufficient worth.
I have
birds,I hope, as
and
grand cage
to
the
In
of my
father's
Clubs, where
Philoperistera
he met
fancy,"and
writing to
In
from
the
be
a
"
In
Tumbler
his
attention
which
and
of
motive
(choice
Baily) in a
pouters
decided
ment
amuse-
mysteries of
their art.
afterwards,he quotes
J. Eaton,
close
and
of
fond
Columbarian
of the
years
Mr.
was
in illustration
"
observation
necessary
of
to
fancier.
Rock-pigeon, Mr.
five
hope
pairfrom
of the
some
Pigeons by
on
variety,which
young
learnt much
Huxley
Mr.
extreme
good
a
"
book
pigeon-fancying enterprisehe
member
"
anything short
fantails and
other
became
necessarily
and
each
H."
delightto
course
the
without
and
me,
trouble
been
whether
of Three.
for each
20s.
have
from
faith in
Rule
got my
paid
much
of
some
old would
and
ascertain
as
no
much
giving so
not
am
the
week
one
I am,
to
differ
breeds
do
as
domestic
our
about, is
curious
very
looking at
say
points which
chief
The
been
fanciers
who
is
sub-variety of
varietyof
Eaton
are
the
Tumbler,
'
says
There
over-covetous,
the
to
the
as
are
who
Almond
short-faced
that
is of the
of
some
go
the
52
GROWTH
almost
by gettingnothing.' In short,it is
intellect to
Tumbler
"
attend
all
to
the
excellencies
be
good breeder,
and
to
succeed
gained lots
If it
'
"
the
Almond
listen
prizes,
when
nobleman
Almond
with
had
he
p.
To
did
Their
wonderings
own
become
not
B.
back
with
father
not
and
as
assure
old
of
and
to
every
that
to
series
were
by
the
clear
have
diligenceof
that
Mr.
the
pile of letters,
for
Tegetmeier'sknowledge
"
as
not,
are
and
highlyvalued
note
phrases,such as
your
of
me," occur, expressinghis sense
well
meier
Teget-
questions relating
completelytrusted
Tegetmeier'shelp,as
ances
acquaint-
Mr.
to
little
so
old
to
valuable
had
up
look
attended
such
letters
of
1881,
to
that I often
keep
father's
co-operation.
me
gave
able
Numerous
wealth
Mr.
it is made
judgment
him.
"
poultry,
on
lasted
when
and
you
days
you
entirelyof
different breeds
facts,and
that
writer
1855, and
rarely regret
almost
consist
is much
child
advice
in
when
one
any
their aviaries of
well-known
can
the
pleasure to
assistance.
"
wrote
the
scarce
"
for constant
correspondence began
my
{i.e.
ornithologist." ('Autobiography,'
an
Tegetmeier,the
indebted
was
when
that
without
be
their
35.)
Mr. W.
"c, he
think
the
forgottenhis
gentleman
to
should
would
from
understand
to
know
gentlemen to
of
fond
was
of
tone
Eaton
"
Tumblers.'
father
improving any
pleasurederived
they begin
gentleman
or
and
and
tumbler's)properties,I
in
to him.
of solace
amount
Tumbler,
My
Almond
of the
required. Mr.
is
noblemen
possiblefor
was
amazing
the
the human
beyond
To
has
[1855.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
words
is
the
by
mine
of
value
of
expressinghis
warm
I855-]
MR"
TEGETMEIER.
53
or
"
subject of
by
read
Bees-cells,'
useful
work
the
animals
transported
across
which
an
the
"your
gave
the
highly
he
evolutionary principles,
which
by
means
wide
of
spaces
interest
It
ocean.
class of
the
to
"c,
seeds, eggs,
be
can
this need
was
experiment
which
to
followingletters allude.]
My
Fox,
DEAR
; but
at
more,
W.
to
D. Fox.
think
it too
dozen,
or
it would
to
offer
your
lizards
whether
such
snakes
nor
alive thus
beings
that
am
therefore
water.
a
; and
can
Of
very
course
strange and
it with
the eggs.
want
on
Your
most
two
have, should
for
sea
a
or
three
to
see
need
half-
dozen
and
such
also ; and
object
or
found
on
whether
not
chance, you
troublesome
be
can
mistake
have
we
is to
whether
water, and
month
are
every
brought in
My
you
for lizard's
me
were
here.
nothing
sandy soil,
on
shillingfor
writing
hand-
my
for
two
in my
transportation of
on
this note
favourable
eggs
lizards
anxious
If you
got
floatingfor
trying experiments
am
school
will float
eggs
live
reward
about
sightof
you
common
well, for I
very
As
time.
17th [1855].
May
I will ask
promise
If snake's
me?
to
be
keep
in
neither
will
all
at
boys
more
them
send
long
ridiculous
the
to
eggs
for
lizards
you
You
"
least
have
by
on
butions
Geographical Distri-
Down,
sea
the
paper
Association, was
on
plantson
C. Darwin
On
Tegetmeier's help
wrote,
British
problems
and
the
study
to
the
science."
Mr.
combs,
father,who
my
before
out
of
had
their
of
kindness,
suggestiveto me."
and
To
and
hive-bees
valued
also
was
love
disinterested
and
pure
and
every
all
see
they
cellar.
organic
island,and
their eggs
stand
answered, without,
some
day
answer
friend,
C. Darwin.
54
C. Darwin
[1855.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
GROWTH
J. D. Hooker.
to
have
in salt water,
shall
and
When
last I
I wrote
that
would
you
what
scoffed
you
view
to
seem
in small
seed
week,
all
have
water
the
badly,and
(the Vestiges
so
tadpoles),
into
germinated
and
as
and
in
has
lettuces)
come
up
One
think, dead.
native
the
few
mation.
in the
26, Nov.
words
asking for
results
Gardeners'
24,
to
1855.
were
infor-
published
stand
Chronicle,'May
In the
same
year
stood
all
the
good
their
well.
The
I wash
have
to
written
whether
sent
it
few words
Leguminosae.
was
the
worth
misprint and
correcting a
adding a
the
of
(p.789) he
paper,
seeds
thought,from
have
I
planting them.
Chronicle* though I doubt
The
'
seem
these
turn
accelerated,
except
before
seed
Gardeners'
*
onions
to
germination
have
and
The
them
; but
mass
quantity
and
irregularly,
very
many,
Umbelliferae
wonderful
been
would
smelt
especially,
expected
; for
me)
at
sneer
cress
have
would
splendidly.
have
cabbages,which
'
the
emitted
adhere
to
grew
cress
(especially
of
seed
cress
would
you
in the
I did not
germinated, which
for
great families.
four
"
mucus
I have
celery,and
doors,exposed
'
of
now
carrots, and
radish,cabbages, lettuces,
of
out
least expect
very
me
you
Christian.
good
in
that made
formerlysay
like
raise
I cannot
experiments vastly;for
experiment
would
you
of temperature,
exactly one
the
this,with
to variation
bottles
cress,
onion
the
snow.
I could
plants which
did
you
the
at
that
aggravating that
It is very
immersion.
after
all the
have
for my
you,
; but
tell,in hopes
not
eat
over
succeeded
slightdegree
seeds
with
great tank
going to triumph
was
baseness, I did
infinite
say
in
had
I filled
as
in
little time
some
namely,
interesting,
I
of 32"-33",
which
in water
immersed
long have,
experiment
be
will,I think,
which
progress
experiment
one
...
on
the seeds of
fuller paper
1855.]
GERMINATION
while.
If my
send
seed
list,to
in
hour, even
an
Gulf
the
So
replant the
As
and
much
too
swans.
to
seeds
be
; but
mile
miles
sixty miles
fiftyand
after
go
transported 168
this head
on
classes
above
as
sea-currents
many
go
while, I will
different
some
same
they might
is said
Stream
much
always
week
55
it worth
mark
to
get you
days' immersion.
fourteen
make
to
seems
To-day
seeds.
of
success
EXPERIMENTS.
day.
are
geese
my
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
[April14th, 1855.]
You
are
The
triumph.
asked
children
in
everythingI
knew
called)which]I
so
for
to sneer,
nice little
Hooker!"
no
Have
I have
power
get
after twenty-one
well
which
more,
is
great
great pleasuretelling
you
very
they
of the
some
are
experiments (ifthey
absurd
so
have
would
trying, you
am
to
not
had
of
some
a
men
letter
in my
even
nice
resistingsalt water,
islands ?
This
be
may
good right
opinion that
I dare
of
?
experimentising
seeds
must
have
for otherwise
how
could
is the true
to
notion
that
tellingme
C. Darwin
way
to solve
My
exhale
the
dear
some
Hooker,
of your
"
You
great
they
problem !
J. D. Hooker.
Down,
on
The
tell you.
not
and
do.
If you
...
I will write
me
gives me
beat Dr.
just vegetated
But
the
expected
tremendously eager,
I should
; for it is to
me
that you
for this
at firstwere
lettuce have
days' immersion.
virtue
week,
often,"whether
me
and
cress
to confess
man
be killed in
would
cress
good
have
satisfaction
in
been
very
writing two
in salt water,
good
notes
[1855.]
to
man
to
me
appeared in
the
56
GROWTH
could
you
for
I
have
not
showing your
assure
seeds, which,
better
satisfaction
you
taken
in
line,in
[I S 5 5.
confoundingmy
as
experiments"
horrid
those
"
you
but
opinion;
my
am
as
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
sink
won't
they
float.
I
have
written
answer,
but
hopes
of any
much
very
unknown
law
it
hour
an
The
is,if the
bore
nothing.
Everything has
ate
voided
and
with
of
lo and
when
splendidly,
of
mind
been
going
to
for half
with
see
other
my
for
the fish
seeds, and
in
and
hundred
miles, been
lake
germinated
fish
and
ejected vehemently,,
all the
own,
lately;
me
swallowed, fish
behold, the
to
By
ocean.
him
soaked
carried
some
disgust equal
their
sinking question !
will
with
lots
my
been
banks
the
on
no
saltingthe ungratefulrascals
up
in
heron, had
seeds
the
make
the
dry
arrest
Col. Sabine
not
going wrong
in
been
Zoolog. Soc.
the
at
could
confounded
taking
might
to
the difficulty
of
transportal
to
respect
I talked
and
subject,
the
on
which
me
rather
giving me
deepestdepths of
odd, but
very
was
had
and
purpose,
to
into the
descent
everlasting
the way
the
to
have
and
Scoresby
to
seeds
from
their
mouths.*
I
But
place I
try fresh
must
probable
more
branch
In
Mr.
my
father
is perverse
it ; and
nature
I wish
wish
had
my
troubles
wrote
"
:
"
and
will not
just
at
old
floatingyet
sea
"
All
do
present I
barnacles
to
at, and
"
; and
pod
to
The
nothing new."
experiment ultimatelysucceeded,
and
he wrote
to Sir J. Hooker
:
work
sink
in the
into the
describingthese
the
up
seeds, though of
believe
being washed
Fox,
give
they will
that
I must
resource,
as
not
am
of
"
or
floods and
nate.
'
and
far
seems
a
last
plant
or
slipsand
greedilyeat
aquatic grasses,
stork,and
of
whole
seed
in first
secondly, as
even
; with
it
course
seeds
that millet-
given to
voided,will
germi-
pig,'"c.
"c."
1855.]
SEEDS
57
this must
earthquakes;
FLOATING.
seeds.
intended
had
seeds.
been
have
float
have
asked
tells
washed
Island
Keeling
seed
to
Brown
R.
Mimosa
seeds
that
and
they must
not
shall !
What
their
try fresh
seeds
Indian
assured
was
rarelywashed
at
shore
on
been
I have
long yarn
Mimosa
to
four W.
Europe.
were
the
Kew,
at
grows
of
shores
on
whether
you
believes
he
me
shed
and
open
Kew.
at
bondnc
Giiilandina
and
scandens
so
try your
not
if kept
spinning.
If you
and
tepid water,
experiment after
its
seeds, do soak
Loffoden
of the
several
have
care
heart,with chances
own
my
utmost
this is
1000
in
some
to 1
against
nth
[1855].
success.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
May
Down,
My
and
Hooker,
dear
just received
I have
"
at the
sincerelyand heartilyglad
most
am
wife.
is my
so
the
Though
news
is but
income
it
a
Hooker.
As
I do
hope
you
taste
I cannot
own
of such
than
and
it,the gladderI
As
took
the
thought
of
give him
the
may
*
The
Royal
not
of
is
contains,
one,
poor
Mrs.
Directorship,
fortune.
piece of good
doing
far
no
more
put in
Chronicle
next
am
bound
week, my
J.
D.
to
first
option of insertingit ;
at Kew.
The
I will say
but
For
the
better,I should
town.
great
it,I think I
appointment of
Gardens
But
Gardeners'
notice
as
the
to
years
splendidplace ;
am.
Hooker
Mrs.
in future
than
fancy a pleasanterposition,
in
Professorship
hope
at it
look
noble
lead
it must
note.
your
to yourselfand
I hope, is satisfactory
yet the certainty,
he
an
my
Head
think,
of
more
I think
except that I
my
question, and
send, which
report
I had
Lindley
to
I think it
to
likelythat
Gardening periodical.When
Hooker
as
Assistant
Director
of the
58
GROWTH
ended
experiments are
my
should
and
the
(shouldthe
Journal
Linnean
'
worthy of
was
I think
but
I
germinating
I
and hope
subject,
the
on
hope
managed
you
for
be Treasurer
not
the Club
up
to
the
than
hope
much
it
.
The
Club.
the
at
I would
I know
long :
which
enquiries
and
you,
so
result
little lighton
some
plague to
me
newspaper
serious
all the
get
be
Lindley.
good meeting
be
Treasurership must
than
it firstto
making
am
cost
probably the
that
floatingquestionmore
; and
one
send
to
think the
begin to
can
bound
am
previous
should
; for it has
record
permanent
more
the
objectto
not
think
worthy)
results appear
report there
much
'
[1855.
provisional
reports,I
of imperfectand
publication
to
delighted
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
will
you
give
sooner
be its Treasurer.
than
Assistant
Farewell,Mr.
and
Director
friend,
dear
C. Darwin.
C. Danvin
J. D. Hooker.
to
June 5th,1855.
Miss
....
work
! for
viz.
making
which
and
been
allowed
cultivated
was
all
collecting
but
cultivated
have
arrived
help
in
to
field ;
naming
from
me
in
grow
field,
adjoiningand
of
seeing
we
similar
what
shall want
we
but
; and
plants
bit of
dreadfully difficult
puzzlers. How
much,
very
immemorial
an
fun
the
little Botanical
time
Hereafter
out.
amuse
waste
run
just for
which
plants,
plantsin
the
died
or
doing
are
it does
and
before
also
are
amusement,
our
has
which
Thorley
it is to
plants.
name
What
remarkably
in
sent
me
your
copy
have
answered
I thank
*
to
answer
of his
you
'
Manual
much
was
for
letter Dr. A.
kind
and
troublesome
my
'
till I heard
letter,I will
his
lady who
nice
for many
from
years
him,
and
has
retained
when
it to you.
return
Hedysarum
queries;
Gray
I do
governess
hope
it is not
in the
very
family.
85 5.]
COLLECTING
precious,for
half
hour, and
an
easilythan
more
why
out
think
do,
have
would
been
they
indifferent whether
long as
philosophyto
my
Whenever
evidence.
would
have
it, it
nevertheless
it is
make
grass
out
stomach
out
the
was
surprisinggood.
C. Darwin
Hooker,
dear
is
Hedysarum
You
imagine
cannot
by naming those
three
and
want
give him
perfectlist of
and
I agree
work, having
the awful
Adios.
If
a
it
you
for
or
was
odoratum
expected
It has
done
to
my
[June?] 15th,[1855].
to
have
you
just got
catch
Both
to
to
me
dry
beginner,
him
to
Miss
Thorley
make
interest to the
work
all British
reallyconsummately
given
paper
quite
Botany, tell
wood.
that the
say
for it.
you
reallyuncommon
thank
I have
ever
taste
gives
! hurrah
never
line
one
amusement
little field
some
that
what
grasses
and
to
justwrite
quitesafely,and
come
views.
words
J. D. Hooker.
to
"
few
pendent
inde-
Down,
My
very
hurrah
hurrah
life,
so
in all my
and
A nthoxanthum
easy
great discovery ; I
other
the
favours
it shocks
But
your
first grass,
my
that fortune
confess
must
made
just
by
land, as
or
sea
some
clearlyunderstand
should, I think,more
I have
notions, it is quite
by
meet,
we
thought you
is shown.
land,without
create
make
of transmission
means
many
tolerablyprobableway
some
have
transmitted
are
or
by itself,
transmission, as
pet theoretic
own
my
as
daily for
I cannot
I should
sea.
pleased at
possible.For
as
close
continental
prefer a
carriageby
to
it to
teach
can
its leaves
it up
cover
first in darkness
at
would
you
you
if I
see
to
foolish
most
closes
plant
no
I want
so
that
somewhere
59
probably a
it is for
I told you
as
I read
purpose.
PLANTS.
instead of
on,
Plants.
impudent
to
express
6o
"
opinion
my
snub, and
reflection
upon
I have
been
June 5th
did
glad you
very
good
not
answer
Sir
to
father
my
letter referred to
The
Gray.%
to Asa
C. Darwin
Hooker,
D.
J.
the Florula.
with
Gray.
following:]
the
to
answer
an
was
I deserved
and
Dr. Asa
letter from
am
interested
much
very
[Writing on
mentions
[1855.
Chronicle.
Gardeners'
in the
me
retrogradestep,"
the
on
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
GROWTH
Sir,
DEAR
"
hope that
the
pleasureof being
beg
But
to
facts
remark
"
on
you
to
hold
when
[Here follows
Alpine plants,and
subject.]I
can
not
in
on
our
seems
distribution,
the
of
means
to
of
much
you
botanist,it
no
questions;
ing
collect-
been
that
offer
can
general
any
animals, I try
that
to
plantsintroduced
%
test
with
Dr.
imported wooL
American
My father's friendship
respondence
Gray began with the corof which
the
sumptuous
pre-
the most
even
in
on
publishing
well-known
The
Botanist.
to
perceivehow
make
me,
ignorance
an
transportal,
state
present
I find
botanist,to
am
suggestionas
you
"To
for their
to
assure
think,cause
As
good amongst
it is in me,
*
know
I have
Plants.
the
I well
I want
asking botanical
my
variation,"and
seems
American
on
to
premise that
that I may
it in
absurd
so
seem
Kew.
at
you
for which
of you,
great favour
apology.
no
introduced
that I had
will remember
you
first letter.
letter to Sir
An
the present is
from a
extract
J.Hooker,
1857, shows
personal
for Dr. Gray had
an
early
regard
paper
I have
been glad to see
in the Gardeners*
Water
and Seeds
origin:
A.
letters
Gray's
Chronicle,May 26, 1855.
; there is always
Florula
Juvenalis,' something in them that shows that
t Godron's
of
he is a very lovable man."
which givesan interesting
account
almost
"
retrogradestep
Extract
in science."
'
the
from
on
father's strong
my
Salt
"
'
that
1855.]
AND
SUGGESTIONS
such
trifling
suggestionto
I
friend
believe
much
with
me,
as
from
of you
heard
have
and
what
saw
botanist
think
6l
QUERIES.
yourself; but
from
dear
kind
our
will
that you
forgiveme,
sir,yours
faithfully,
very
Darwin.
Charles
to Asa
C. Darwin
Gray.
June
Down,
I thank
SIR,
DEAR
"
kind
letter of the
and
obliging manner
some
The
have
you
taken
my
rather
you
how
much
hardly tell
can
but
room,
would
making
whilst
struck
of
their
here, owing
which
to
your
troublesome
plantsfound
in
Eastern
This
and
give
sent
now
kindness, I
give in
in brackets
it has
if
doubt, your
much
like to know
which
European.
do
not
publico.
your
the
Rocky Mountains,
to
Yenesei'
Gmelin,
the very
?
though
but
speak selfishly,
I presume
manual
in MS.
me
often
notion
some
so, I cannot
and
for
experience,
own
manuals,
our
for
are
you
have
you
of the
my
indigenous
according
right,
remember
*
west
From
Alpine
concerned, this
am
beginnerswould
Americano
to
as
now
capitalnews
pressed
it would
given ;
plantswere
bono
merely pro
found
been
be well in the
it not
addition
same
interest
inquirersand
American
Would
purpose.*
much
had
of their range
far
as
can
your
append (Eu)
to
space
English plants in
out
how
me
no
plant,and,
every
answer
which
take
is
Manual
preface how
your
it would
European
any
edit, of your
new
from
know
me.
too
in which
[1855].
extremely pleasant
summits.
to
for the
8th
remarkably
your
list of
your
in
for
cordially
you
ult.,and
22nd
questions.
troublesome
and
respect,
Dear
My
and
it would
be
habitats of those
and
likewise those
(?), which,
is the
"
main
if I
partition
62
GROWTH
line of Siberia.
Flora
Europe,
eastward
westward.
or
show
botanist
notice
for
for
will
so
pointI
one
vague
to tabulate
from
area,
the whole
had
from
intended
families,in
way,
order
to
I ventured
Chronicle
with
experiments
trifling
which
Gardeners*
of seeds
to
of
should
send
withstand
but
sea
reallyhardly
wish
to
than
have
what
see
also,of
whole
duced
intro-
of
means
days
short
the
water.
do
this
have
done
tained
ascer-
European
separate great
transportal.By
a
ago
report by
been
roughly)
have
the
Flora,of
few
done
course,
of
yet
as
botanists,you
I could
course
I have
it has
points
great leadingfamilies
speculate on
to
(and,indeed, have
but
area
of North
proportion (leavingout
introduced)and
plants (leavingout
the
of the
; but
I rather
of the
the
proportion,to
to
drawing up
whole
book,
your
is curious
some
definitely
comparisons,
the
is to
that of the
; and
presume
your
to
plants)
remarks
think of
you
some
than
state
most
am
profoundlya subject
for information
out
come
give,for
would
to
wish
are
these
been
in
as
and
ing
interest-
very
that
me
studies
glad that
me
me
objects. I
defined
the
who
very
for
geographical distribution,
ask
I much
they
results
it
so
me
non-botanist
the
to
migration has
of
use
[on]what
strikes
You
which
can,
is
one
America.
on
every
your
Manual
of the
points
am
on
only
what
unaware
information.
some
the
to
the
plants
in Greenland
are
believe
Pray
that
entirelyconscious
found
whether
show
point as tendingto
the northern
of the
ranges
most
[1855.
concerns
Asia, appears
in E.
or
more
The
America.
Western
'ORIGIN.'
THE
Perhaps Siberia
of North
and
east
OF
me
trying on
know
not
that it would
of the
copy
of
some
the power
whether
be advisable
it has
struck
for
botanists
lowest
I make
you,
to
me,
I855-]
the
Umbelliferae
whole
numbers,
proportionof
the
the
knows
one
of the
distant
; but
Mentioning
instance
an
you
futile
AND
SUGGESTIONS
these
are,
which
Brown's
of
plants,and
calculate
other
I found
cases
took
then
here
the
indigenous flora
or
find
result
the
the
in
families
the
""
worked
near
two
continuously
to all the
In
".
ginal
abori-
our
in many
; and
"
the
out
equally striking
in the introduced
I
question ;
same
almost
when
plants,and
to
came
the
*fg%
other
proportion entirelydifferent,showing
coincidences
the
that
found
that
Britain
proportion is
but
indigenous;
tne
-J-m
out
in Great
was
and
vague
work
once
the
Compositae an
correspondence,viz. -^"^ \
5=
how
give
equally strikingcorrespondence.
an
Manual, and
your
I may
great families in
of the
fluous.
super-
this
remark,
really
think
to
Hooker's
identityof proportionalnumbers
countries, shows
may
attempt
and
how
in two
points, and
for,without
familyare
same
proportionalnumbers,
sort
R.
reflectingon
the
judge
cannot
one
likelyyou
of the
often
they
,;fJ8=^-
are
plantsof
very
63
QUERIES.
in
the
British
Flora
probably
were
accidental !
will, I presume,
You
contains
genus
If it would
to
the
divide
the
to
Asia
and
found
in
there
or
not
though
be too
an
old
the
in Old
how
done
give
three
very
world, statingnumbers
species
species each
think
idea
viz.
groups,
the
myself.
not
you
good
of
many
this for
troublesome,do
it would
of your
to
common
the New
World
ought
not
found
in your
To
area.
Flora,
mon
(a) species com-
one
ideas)perfection
perfect,
are
proportion
average
I have
species into
to America
confined
my
on
and
interesting,
be very
to
i.e.show
the genera,
to
give
make
to
genera
genera
(according
be told whether
common
But
Europe
in
Europe
honestlyI feel
64
GROWTH
that it is
the
quiteridiculous
subject; but, as
write
to you
is
the
not
will
the
in
only way
from
be to bear
sheets
of the
Manual, my
let
and
species,
have
me
of
trouble
or
as
think
had
in
you
only
myself,which
whether
it.
for
The
makes
The
could
conceive
the
you
hardlyhope
can
Flora,so
in
the
same
genera
too
purposes
globe
are
give
to
vague
help,to
species of
ascertain
the
same
variable
of
"
or
close
but
thought specifically
distinct,
other
some
variety;
or
to
"
Hooker's
the
Hooker
what
whether
other
mark
just mention
definition I should
that you
race
of
proof-
or
give
species
different
the
cross
parcelto
I will
close
"
this would
But
the
quarters
The
put
question,and
my
one
But
attempted,by
distant
species"was
you
that you
little trouble.
and
sending
sheets.
species,"and
present varieties.
which
second
I have
marked
I have
in
that
me
geographicaldistribution.
Floras
different
similar way
genera
for
but
question
will do
in
compare
enumerate.
a
in
remembering
"close
have
in
old
such
; it is to have
to
so.
for information,
anxious
very
one
whenever
want
me
would
the
no
to do
reason
believe
with
present interest
trouble
to
better
laughs at
greatest hesitation,and
will
can
you
wholly different
case
the
you
often
most
am
it with
give it,without
at
lengthon
and
I do it gratefully,
who
presumptionto hope
follyand
point can
which
[1855.
at such
you
me,
have
you
that
full belief
in the
only
sure
mention
asked
Hooker,
to
point on
one
and
am
writingto
have
you
'ORIGIN.'
THE
my
I should
as
and
unmercifully,
There
OF
or,
were
(which
mere
would
I know
I do
cross
give
must
not
to
me
to
some
be
so
other
very
expect) spare
each
the
such
the
speciesin
information
be vague.
kind
to do
time, as
any
this,and
I have
useless
desired,which,
could
said, a
proof-sheets
I may
add,
3S5-]
VITALITY
How
the
length of
extreme
of your
letter to
the
often
too
been
in this
case
With
deeds.
good
this letter?
has
me
65
SEEDS.
The
partlythe
world, you
punished for
are
me,
Darwin.
Ch.
J. D. Hooker.
to
seed;*
think
but
remember
seed
a
bold
years
live in the
many
tellinghim
I
ought
far I go in
1855,
Gardeners'
"
the
length)by my
Vitalityof Seeds."
The
walk
1846
laid
"
wood
; the
on
1855, on
VOL.
as
the
II.
grass
soil
Sand-
planted in
was
piece of
down
"
think, Charlock
as
disgustedhim
common
I intend
can) the
facts and
of the
far the
and
more
forms
by
in which
descent
how
alive out
up
up.
way
show
to
notice
common
then
in
column
on
write, show
came
come
(asfar
Chronicle,
758, appeared
p.
(half a
show
come
we
seed
; the
against forms,
or
when
and
the
In
father
to have
not
; and
the
Clay ! !
againstthe
genus
tell for
different
cannot
that Charlock
attributing
organisms to
I know
answer
is to
treatingthe subject,
of the
it, I
you
years, you
his evidence
that Palms
ask how
:
time
Charlock
"
accordingto
descent
to
allow
Next
ground.
You
luck
would
you
in how
say
about
told me
A
the other
man
probablyall be dead.
I thought,a splendid instance, and splendid
it
day of, as
for
ill
salting,
about
as
case
mild
getting a
am
many
face,and
would
was,
just
how
might
seed
[July,1855].
1 8th
Down,
...
your
trulyand gratefully,
very
C. Darwin
is
that,as
so
cause,
presumption and
great good nature
for all my
apologiseenough
can
OF
species
same
ments
argu-
widely
more
of different orders
and
several
places,Charlock {Brassica
sinapistrum)sprang up freely.The
subjectcontinued to interest him,
and
I find a note
dated July 2nd,
1874,in
that
which
father
recorded
forty-six
plants of
Charlock
my
1840.
In
being dug
in
to
pasture
in
land
considerable
depth.
F
66
GROWTH
classes,
there
remain
be
perhaps
can
and
not
1855*
gives
Glasgow
and
E.
day
saw
asked
('
linear
Mag.'
of
have
done
Sir
of
meeting
the
last
enjoyed
instigated
a
was
liked
(whom
you
good
one,
to
worth,
old
much),
and
to
stayed
the
rob
go
was
we
seeing
news
to
it
return
our
no
was
than
more
British
the
have
time,
[Oct.
Fox
of
really
long
me
Mr.
to
meeting
"
On
Philip
I
letter
to
and
structures,
left.
for
cold.
which
those
as
rudimentary
:]
was
earth
on
The
this
attended
Shrewsbury,
'why
his
the
place.
and
he
poultryDuke
of
excellently."]
spoke
In
of
he
bad
arguments
is
from
fatigue
little
?'
Phil.
power
at
me
Argyll
the
but
similar
mention
we
caught
single
yard
brief
thing
only
from
extract
which
Association
such
argument
an
following
[The
the
deduced
soon
very
some
only
Q1855.
'ORIGIN.'
THE
OF
x.)
icebergs
published
he
year
"
paper
to
uniformly-directed
make
On
the
across
submarine
undulatory
sur-
face."
recti-
grooves
f
bour
Sir
of
P.
Mr.
Egerton
Fox.
was
neigh-
( 6/
III.
CHAPTER
THE
UNFINISHED
1856
MAY
[In
the
wrote
:"
views
pretty
three
or
Early
four
followed
in the
in
in
times
'
my
work
MS.
paid
wrote
several
Moor
to the shrine
as
p.
84) my
to
write
me
do
to
that which
I had
which
'
father
out
on
so
my
scale
afterwards
was
yet it
only
was
collected."
chieflyconcerned
The
with
the
an
letters
tion
prepara-
book.
it
the two
remained
visits to
Dr.
the
interruptedby
was
years
which
chapters(thatis
ten
He
14th,and steadilycontinued
May
on
During
projectedbook.
at
858.
once
Origin of Species ;
Wallace's
but
at
extensive
as
begun
was
he
considering,
the
began
to
Mr.
and
fully,
of this unfinished
up
JUNE
of the materials
The
TO
Autobiographicalchapter (Vol.I.
"
abstract
BOOK.
Lane's
of which
at
we
about
arrival of
are
of
one-haif)
part
Cure
he made
now
at
home,
ment
Establish-
pilgrimage
Selborne.]
LETTERS.
C. Darwin
to
C.
Lyell
May
With
.
respect
views,I hardlyknow
to
your
what
to
suggestion of
[1856J.
sketch
of
my
it,but
2
68
THE
it goes
for
absolutelyimpossible,
of facts.
array
the main
to
out
such
If I
of
few
view, and
the
anything,it
selection
"
think
of the main
; I
rather
know
for
were
priority,
yet I certainly should
before
doctrines
to publish my
you
heartilyfor
I will
week, and
on
as
not
so
precisely,
hour
will you
; but
own
for
call
let
strongest time
lose
to
countenance
be
idea
of
one
I thank
Anyhow,
be
writing
if any
vexed
me.
I do
in London
next
for
much
and
of your
do
my
as
in
old
dear
time
one
early as 9 o'clock,
the morning in my
come
I must
Farewell, my
the
an
perhaps point
Thursday morning
this time
me
which
much
have
on
you
be
only refer
difficulties. But
I shall
sympathy.
your
and
"
hate
not
to
could
leading features,which
few
some
what
do
change
would
propositionrequires such
every
to
were
of
agency
very
fair sketch
prejudices.To give a
againstmy
[1856.
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
patron.
Yours,
C. Darwin.
in the
perfectlyenclosed
nine
plantsin
pond
; Hooker
him
I showed
If I did
plants have
three
the way,
By
come
of
roots
the
much
how
publish a
I had
mud
scraped off
sketch,where
short
twenty-
with
little
it,when
duck's
one
earth
on
earth,
of the
out
was
the
And
trees.
of mud,
table-spoonful
the
of
out
up
feet.
should
publishit ?
If I do
9 to
10
not
that
I may
from
come
Thursday.
on
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
May 9th [1856].
I very
...
you
can
give
specieswork,
I
am
fixed
will not
much
want
it.
I had
and
he
against
expose
advice
any
me
truthfulconsolation
talk
with
Lyell about
an
if
my
or
periodical
Journal,as
myself to
publicationfor which
good
urges
and
Editor
they might
or
be
positively
Council,allowing a
abused.
If I
publish
1856.]
be
it must
anything
and
views
of my
sketch
UNFINISHED
THE
seemed
Lyell
yet could
could
been
publish for
not
point
I had
at work
several
-really
gratefulfor advice.
months
and
writing
such
whether
judgment
open
It will
simply impossiblefor
be
author
which
ground
could
be
not
outline
or
Preface
would
work
in
the
on
only
memory
work
the
sketch
mere
the
facts
references,"c,
I should
at
sneer
is, that
comfort
of
seems
it advisable.
think
peck
references
that
full
only
my
my
completed.
all
state
believe
couple of
authority of
give by
which
in
be
keep
to
exact
but
scientific,
strictly
to
deliberately
am
the
dreamed
trulynever
I
could
it when
giving
opinion, I
one
of
I should
trying
the
on
my
future
state
require
to
giving up
give
to
me
instead
considered
of
be
should
any
In
two.
or
one
and
generally;
of
years, and
me
you
publish
to
no
I should
anything important
think
might
as
especially
to
sketch,and
a
or
seemed
thought
ground, which
the
and
years,
what
think
eighteen*
for
difficulties which
out
references,of
to
on
reallydreadfully
exact
and
this,at the suggestion of friends,
do
I
But
unpublished work.
without
resume,
volume, giving
it is
difficulties ; but
to give a
unphilosophical
an
little
thin and
very
69
BOOK.
of
troubles, and
do
for
forgiveme
pray
troublingyou.
Yours
affectionately,
C.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
May
for
Now
.
from
more
extremely glad
am
The
interval of
1837
facts,would
when
he
viz.
importantI subject,
you
think
eighteenyears,
began to collect
bring the
date
of this
Darwin.
well
of
letter to 1855,not
the
latter
date.
seems
nth
my
[1856].
self:
own
separate
"
Pre-
1856,nevertheless
more
probable
the
TO
[1856-
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
THE
is published;for
liminaryEssay" {i.e.if anything whatever
Lyellseemed rather to doubt on this head)* ; but I cannot bear
the idea of
and
and Council to publish,
Editor
beggingsome
perhaps to have to apologisehumbly for having led them
then
into
In
scrape.
according to
fit state for
and
then,
this
respect I
one
wise
very
as
father
my
comfortable, and
Heaven
knows
at
all any
it
have
It is
led to such
I have
fear
not
should
being
is much
more
and
up
details
full
the
quite
as
me
results.
I
hope
down
to
see,
your
i.e. I
error,
!
superfluous
therefore
are
of yours
view
quite true
not
I do
doctrine.
feel
pretty
sure
by spreading error,
say
But
up
essay, in my
mischief
very
ing
publish-
to
respect
results without
was
up,
advice.
It yet strikes
exaggerated, I
tied
advice
reject bad
anything,and
rather
give
good
preliminaryessay.
say,
with
only
the
firmlymade
mind
to
which,
state
is
father's,
my
in this state
not
melancholy,and
to
easy
unphilosophicalto publish
which
with
used
was
am
of my
saying
in the
am
easier
to
more
sketch
and
publish,open.
least
trying
But
the
making
to
keep
always
I have
as
corrected.
than
spread
at
which
to
return
I confess
attempt
my
fixed
is
to publish without
dreadfullyunphilosophical
certainlythink
hearing what
my
my
future
friends
or
work
in
critics
and
judgment,
my
heard
often
you
I lean
drawing
whether
to
idea that it
full details.
full would
profitby
(ifreviewed)thought
of
the outline.
To
any
on
have
be
one
so
but
you
personalan
proved
it
by
I should
apologisefor
affair ; but
the trouble
believe,and
have
you
such
long
sion
discus-
indeed
superfluous.
Yours
trulyobliged,
Ch.
The
meaning
of the sentence
in
you
Darwin.
parentheses is obscure.
1856.]
P.S.
What
"
you
the
and
value
from
would
harm.
"
Letter
my
essay
not
need
resolved
is
it would
I may
publishedat
apology as
to
make
it
that
; and
true
Lyell had
other
liminary
pre-
good
never
Lyell [July,1856].
(withabsolute truth)that
suggestion,but
I at
nearly
I cannot
first
hope
as
you
it will
for I have
thought ;
complete
as
present
my
suggest, for
conceited."
too
appear
wish
say
your
much
allow.
C.
Sir
so
materials
is very
novelty
head.
into my
to
delightedthat
am
all
away
and
Theory,
heartilyto
Essay
an
take
and
letter)
your
everything. On the
I published a
Lyell'surgent advice),
begin most
From
just re-read
larger Book,
of the Coral
fl
beyond
grieve me
sketch
nor
future
any
(again from
hand
have
(for I
say
that
that
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
THE
From
Letter
to
W.
D.
Fox.
and
What
it gave
say about
you
another
me
I shall succeed
in
But
I tremble
some
three
anything.
the
on
about
or
fit of the
making
get information
to
four
more
say
One
I should
to
years
hope
that
great motive
which
points on
many
is very true
I want
is
it.
do, if I allowed
not
elapse before
publishing
."
.
giving,as showing
now
dare
wibber-gibbers:
it modest.
it,which
[The followingextracts
which
Essay, I
my
had
to
how
letters to Mr.
from
great
Fox
the accumulation
was
are
worth
of material
be dealt with.
see
your
Very
I had
many
thanks
blundered
originalnotes
for the
capitalinformation
greatly,but
; but
my
notes
I know
are
I have
so
numerous
on
cats
; I
somewhere
during
72
THE
nineteen
go
Nov.
"Sometimes
1856.
take
it would
I fear
I shall
break
each
month's
bigger with
C. Darwin
C.
to
LYELL,
DEAR
thing
in the
turns
cold
of your
North
world.
But
the
from
one
to
of
Madeira
witnesses
of
grant
depths (as if
island
every
the
this, if
stop
your
the
the
my
the
many
Pacific
recent
lower
my
a
300
or
not
extend
for
master,
and
slow
the
you
creeping
lived.
ever
writes
miles
a
ocean
If you
"
Don't
not
punishment
will
beat
manner
of
there.
go
live
to
all
be
Catastrophists.
myself
great deal
of
good,
and
passion.
forgiveme,
answer
all
do
and
believe
me,
ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
to
And
will
You
of
continent
Oceans
species!
region
great
certain
and
sure
200
Atlantic
and
is Wollaston
is Woodward
Here
over
of
the
and
America
Here
as
weed
Gulf
the
to
South
to
"
nothing),why
done
master,
and
passion
extending to]
[i.e.
same)
Land.
P. Santo
Catastrophistswho
my
impudent
most
with
to
Zealand
continent
disciples in
old
So
(or
continent."
be
the
exploded
continent
Kerguelen
believe,
There, I have
gets hot
New
existence
there
geologists, I
Why,
was
in
within
this
that
blood
[June, 1856].
6th
the
do
to
and
former
if you
me,
work."]
geological strides,which
another
World
going
the
made
and
speaking
to
my
for my
down,
taking.
Forbes
poor
makes
round
am
alternatelyat
America
Hooker
"
disciplesare
Here,
Lyell.
Down,
My
least
at
me
classifythem."
and
over
[1856.
BOOK.
years'collection,that
to
year
UNFINISHED
this, I did
it to
ease
myself.
have
1856.]
CONTINENTAL
EXTENSION.
C. Darwin
73
J. D. Hooker,
to
[June]17th, 1856.
Down
been
I have
I differ
though
read
ever
greatlyfrom
anything
mischievous,"
bottom
of
burning
line.
him
also
I fear
ultra-honestyis
he
it as
meant
I got
so
from
book
on
wroth
my
sneer
created
the
on
pretty
question
sure
to
Talking of
hope
not.
Atlantic
and
they
and
become
I have
doubt
protest, and
especially
so
not
ploded,
fairlyex-
all the
up
sinner
pretty nice
altogether!
therefore, if
(the head
and
island
merged
continents,sub-
summed
Forbes
by
Woodward,
make
geology,
that every
of
the remains
to
whether
eocene
existing species,that
Lyell
that
published a capital
has
to
seem
are
of
not
own
His
sure
continent, more
(who
not
is
know
; I
of late years
of land
I do
in
fact I wrote
he
says
period
to
he
of his
essay.
In
him.
characteristic
Atlantic
wrote
I told
as
Calvin
book
clever
little out
the
at
like
Zealand
New
most
is
was
and
very
frankly;
too
does
yourself,Wollaston,
extension
the
Woodward
who
shells),
valuable
"
further
he
you
far he goes,
very
go
him
told
very
eocene,
the
about
from
note
read
to
is rather
frankly;
most
Did
Theology
evidentlyread
has
He
urged
Geology
this.
It is
heretic.
opinion.
my
of
some
who
unsound."
absurd,"
"
those
against
book,*
of his doctrines.
many
rich,considering how
so
his denunciations
.as
Wollaston's
deeply interested by
very
...
!)
little
fairlyrabid
am
already,am
wrong
enjoyed
your
much.
note
Adios,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
your
say
[June]1 8th.
side, which
it does
Though
"
Lyell
ought
to
has
written
upset
me
me
capitalletter on
entirely,but
I cannot
quite.
I must
try and
*
The
being
cease
Variation
of
rabid
Species,'
1856.
and
try
to
feel
74
THE
and
humble,
cook
does
allow
all to
you
[1856.
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
continents,as easilyas
make
a.
pancakes.
C. Darwin
to
C,
LyelL
Down, June 25th[1856].
My
LYELL,
DEAR
keep
make
copied to
letter
the
you
authors, I gladlywrite
I discuss
when
be
I
is
admit
littoral
the
to
New
to
these
either
think
So
another
India.
the
have
well
been
islands
the
in the
to
Atlantic,
Island
Land
littoral
into
these
periods,
circumpolar
must
shells,the
sea
Islands
Woodward
as
to
; thus
Fernandez
the Pacific
Southern
Madagascar
Holland
New
almost
Juan
America, and
in the Pacific
islands
North
trust
joined to
to
as
continent,with
In
if we
and
no
join Madeira
at different
beings,an
again Galapagos
feel
Falklands, and
time, or
same
two
or
one
Raoul
Kerguelen
to
more
I should
to
(and
the
that
European plants,
necessary
and
these
; and
of
them.
on
much
was
S. America
the
cases,
Island
essay,
wrath
my
in any
account
on
Auckland
America
all the
; also
to
is
at
strictly
Galapagos must
miles distant)
as
to
Hooker
If there
in other
of
; I shall therefore
extension
all within
joined to
if
d'Acunha, and
Tristan
is.
being
of late
in my
general opinion
it is thought
shells,
sea
belt of land.
be
there
But
Zealand, and
making,
but
to
convinced
am
condensed
your
continental
mainland,
N.E.),and
persuaded myself in
than
whatever.
difficulty
to
have
instances
them
for
extensions
in them
more
to
reason
and
I want
as
reasons
my
as, without
give
to
particularly
glad to
quitelikelyhave
may
there
hear
to
in the continental
them,
I shall have
error,
my
followingtremendous
reading easier,and
like
would
you
say
unwillingto believe
most
the
copy.
As
I will have
"
(2400
seems
tinent
magnificent con-
Indian
Ocean
and
Africa, and
Europe
will stretch
into
perhaps
half-way-
1856.]
the
across
In
CONTINENTAL
short,we
land
was
within
Now
must
period
only
whether
the
such
of
wonderful
have
that
doubt
since at
least,the
livingshells
have
we
miocene
regions,short
of marine
Africa
existed
isthmus
the
had
since
of Suez
has
India.
Australia
doubt
that
was
very
conclude
that
they
stand
now
changes within
have
the
been
vaster
in
islands
our
"
Consider
non-volcanic.
Alps
of
In North
Abyssinia and
tropical
inter-
to the
range
I infer that
created.
of extinct
for
not
supials
mar-
second
one
have:
continents
period,but yet
this
barriers
should
have
appeared..
require the
such
in
in
in the sea,
immense,
our
oceans,
depths,the changes
what
the
must
are
Africa
the
the
of the
Pyrenees,
Asia, Altai
of
all the
that
In
its place
sense.
hence
of the
mammals
as
(or
its,
tertiarydepos-
the
livingorganisms
peaks as islands,and
be ?
South
almost
; hence
believe
great
vertical
Secondly. Submerge
stood
me
of
the
held
sides
all these
riod
pe-
miocene
compared
I do
therefore
make
period
same
Aralo-Caspianbasin
of level within
; and
to
from
moreover,
mountain
is
present
fundamentallythey
weightiest evidence
where,
the
large portions of
In Africa
great fauna
separate continent.
that
the
before
consider
and
and
has
imagine,from
In Australia
shows
the
and
I
aspect.
our
great antiquity. So
all North
opposite
the distance
as
this
Even
the
within
America
period.
on
Globe
opposite sides,and
the
on
is to
recent
ocean
The
see,
can
In
both
fundamentally
distinct
are
permutations.
America,
present
different
quite
undergone
eocene)shells,quite distinct
I cannot
had
this,that
test
the
rightacross.
livingorganisms.
have
must
to
way
north
probably, half
period
continents
Central
and
the
75;
further
Azores, and
suppose
within
this
the
the
to
ocean
EXTENSION.
Nevada,
Sierra
non-volcanic, Etna
and
Atlas.
I believe
Himalaya,
non-volcanic,as
In
South
and
imagine,
Africa, the
76
THE
Snow
Mountains.
North
America,
Mountains
South
and
Itacolumi
and
in
the
to the
of
known
all
Cordilleras, many
the
in the line of
several
on
bank
to
reasons
This
how
immense
antiquity
"
are
could
But
porphyry.
in the
old
I
battered
think
evidence
Coral
my
outbursts
there
see
volume
be
I should
islands,as
reason
than
of
the
of
the
of
be
such
less
have
view
(ifmy
:
tinent,
con-
be ; but
may
should
we
that
in
volcanic
subsidence
work, in risingareas
of
element
by
Rock, and
it,viz.
at
to
or
syenite,diorite,
Helena,
in
kind
would
last wreck
why
am
of the
that
and
as
oceans,
any
if any
that
St. Paul's
St.
have
we
as
oceans
risingcontinents
truth
any
off,
mainland,
with
of
any
compensating agent
no
which,
relation
continents
ocean
some
oceanic,
Believing,as
say
any
nowhere
we
has
accompany
will
as
great weight.
me
islands
leavingpeaks
of the
sinking
will be
there
midst
to
cores,
have
can
of
has
connected
have
volcanic
we
far
as
called
be
can
it appears.
forming
form
their
to
islands
continents,and
as
continents, they
denuded
Now
all.
not
were
different
islands
they
|Ventanas,
argument
suppose,
existing oceanic
time
latter
; New
inclined,that continents
of
but
oceanic
Geographical Map,
Sardinia, and
arc
the
Sierra
the
volcanic
; the
Madagascar
exception.
Compare
south
if this
Seychelles,
shallow
only a
of Caracas,
[Silla]
are
rock),and
another
Brazil, further
with
In
peaks
In
Alps.
of the latter
these
compare
are
the White
America
[1856.
BOOK.
Australia,the non-volcanic
In
some
"
UNFINISHED
outpoured volcanic
matter.
letter,inclined
your
amount
respect
of subsidence, but
to
coral
the ocean,
vehemently
I must
to
strike
dispute
my
before
I was,
the
colours.
vast
With
reefs,I carefully
guarded against its being
1856.]
CONTINENTAL
that
supposed
continent
It
is
amount
of subsidence
areas
of
of from
peaks
after your
fair to
letter
in
line of the
have
formations
in
the
during
beings.
Europe
if
islands,with,
deep
profotindly
volcanic
the
tells
not
of
on
supposed
of
for the
enough
Hooker
does
not
of
groups
the
from
argument
island
of volcanic
islands
of
absence
some
; but
cases
Banksias, "c,
these
they may
it certain
several
(inwhich
"c.
belting
former
you
will
least
and
of
seem
Batra-
insects
New
that those
say
on
Zealand
who
explain
that
continuous
and
not
of distribution
can
dispersal,
at
reasons,
in
Not
of
means
hardly compatiblewith
Finally. For
mammals
great groups
cases,
accidental
believe^ in various
these
certain
do
phenomena
of
absence
and
of Acacias
extensions
the
as
paucity of plantsin
seem
be
organic
existing oceanic
continental
account
islands ;
Madeira, and
facts
of
hemisphere.
; the
of
therefore
existing continents,not
; but
chain
there
during these
approximate
from
groups
vertical
one
set
; I believe
them
mere
in
and
same
not
nearly every
to
perfectly
me,
most
judge
between
sea
by talking
memory
America,
the
be
of the greatest
middle
feet would
continent
may
suppose
Fourthly. The
the
we
nature
the southern
chians
nearly
he does
to
of
Even
formation,it seems
continent, but
continuous
North
some
it would
feet of subsidence
and
12,000
even
for Hooker's
Azores, or
infer
carboniferous
continuance
But
in the
least 10,000
at
whether
me
the
buried.
probablethickness
the
pelago,
Archi-
odd, if
been
not
refreshingmy
; but
regard to
been
feet had
subsidences
Silurian and
Marshall
archipelagoes,be
10,000
in such
suspicioncrossed
from
Ramsay
must
to
continents
to
with
8000
argue
oceans
oceanic
existing
it
group,
the
me,
reefs ; but
Archipelago, the
Laccadive
and
heights
Lowe
of
groups
to
seems
coral
by
the
by
it
as
guess,
indicated
the
as
J?
indicated
was
difficult to
atolls.
large
EXTENSION.
these
land.
sidering
especiallycon-
agree)that
we
are
ex-
78
THE
tremely ignorantof
that
Forbes'
'
close
checking a
UNFINISHED
of
means
have
brieflyas
positionof
write
to
honest
an
postage remains
or
be
to
Hooker
I should
will
you
think
am
extensions
much
8th he wrote
sorry
like him
it worth
believe
give
I infer that
; and
It is not
(and
Nineteen
I do
little
think
sort
on
Nat.
of
facts
this
species,and
have
been
from
other
to Asa
of not
argument
my
I wish
I could
Gray.
varieties
but
egotistical,
I
it occurred
to
bearing
I have
the
on
since
be
varieties
destroyingthe others,but
be brief,I
much
by comparison
view
with
as
that
assume
extinction
many
as
as
propositions
can
of
doing.
they
gets his
filla
then
general
find made
like
I think
keeping
our
it
distinct
most
test this
and
species
descended
quire if I
speciesarise
; and
originof
species.
one
man
if I noted
the
have
work.
otherwise
Either
I should
my
good
question
from
like to tell
that whilst
me
been
probable that
by preservingsuch
varieties with
like
species,
to
I should
how
have)
independentlycreated, or
be shown
To
Continental
on
I know
extensions.
think
not
(!)ago
years
employed
on.
and
so."]
...
can
time
Darwin.
verdict
Down,
any
read
Lyell.
any
you
C. Darwin
you
to
truly,
most
Sir Charles
to
cannot
you
going to
was
Charles
"
the
proved.
Yours
[On July
these
putting yourselfin
you,
and
subject;
he
whether
this ; but
I shall be
like,whether
you
I told
judge.
this
on
you
with
weight
any
science, as
of dissemination.
means
reallygratefulto hear, as
arguments
ill-service to
an
was
of
study
ing
avoid think-
I cannot
dispersal,
'
Atlantis
[1856.
BOOK.
were
to
and
go
domestic
hypothesis
blished
pretty well-esta-
out,
"
in
geographical
1856.]
GEOGRAPHICAL
DISTRIBUTION.
79
"c.
distribution,
geologicalhistory, affinities,
to
seems
me
such
with
common
the
that
say
only
reverent
nonsensical
is
of
compass
I have
such
trying
But
note.
the
to
come
despise
difficulties
I do
me.
actual
are
would
be
have
of
distribution.
the
the
the
whole
much
exceptions
the balance
pleased
weight
with
to
staggered about
I must
that
that
say
your
said
word
notions
in
will be to
about
and
with) agriculturists
way
of
more
of
so
the
have
put
over.
great that
have
on
was
considerable
been
so
much
species.
and
me
works
means
feel
sure
crotchets),
my
species change
the
course
notions, but I
never
horticulturists
pretty clearlyon
it
(for I
justification
the
they
continuous
read
were
to
had
despise
how
long-continuedstudy
my
he
the permanence
tendency
all my
from
one
who
of
subject I
kindly
it seemed
that
same
; if
area
have
the
difficulties
and
the
to
grounds),all
weighed againstmy
find
Hooker,
Hooker
allude
to
exceptions (for
exactly same
of
huge
geological
changes.
species should
same
Just
many
and
climatal
On
too
no
explain too
species,this
one
sadly
(but on
chapter together,and
thought
see
the
explained by
this view
fortiorion
individuals
; and
case
be
to
of
are
many
to
continuous
or
descendants
lineal
the
common
that
speciesare
species of
generallyhaving
genus
there
it
the
tell you
the
me
false.
be
But
that
to
ation,
explan-
so.
that
underrate
to
inexplicable,
in your
point
one
much
not
"
this
on
much, otherwise
species
I know
varieties.
to
proceed,in
conclusion,that
heterodox
it till
mind
my
I must
man,
you
honest
admit
and
to
try
to
were
scientific
so
it
in accordance
to
no
it is
I
how
an
as
is
so
saying
show
to
For
out.
and
so
of
way
only stronglydefined
me)
found
created
specieswere
ought,
followingall sciences,to
hypothesisbe
better
some
of
way
And
hypothesis
general propositions,we
explain
"c.
derived
are
of
(and
and
used
by
converse
believe
nature
I
to
So
UNFINISHED
THE
species and
her
change
beautiful
is
exposed.
them
adapt
which
contingenciesto
C. Darwin
HOOKER,
DEAR
able to
not
was
J. D. Hooker.
to
of my
nothing
rely
never
yet I
and
therefore
500
misunderstand
evidence
both
to
are
believe
to
; and
in mammalia
me,
as
conclusions
the
facts.
fancy
have
great difficulties
may
such
in not
than
so
opposed
doctrine,and
been
found
mainland.
I doubt
the
far
on
On
rather
distribution.
distribution
I have
as
with
my
the
to
one
the
gone,
very
of
most
certainlyknow
we
in any
other
class.
of
more
Nothing
is
so
from
latelyremoved
opposed
the continental
any
sidering
cononly probability,
to
my
judges
many
than
myself,from
(not geographical)
notions, but
God
knows
be all hallucination.
*
ment
frag-
of
possibility
with respect
allied,
as
me,
to-
must
a
You
independentlyof
; but
sea
belief
different
same
and
There
continental
you
out
the
accordant
surprisingly
me
of distribution
vexatious
have
we
identical
of depth of
troublesome
means
as
strongly. You
here
has
feet ; it is
30,000
or
from
spondence,
corre-
over
think
you
yet worked
not
mammalia,
you
miles
when
me
such
results
600
or
get
will
thought
for this
too
the
palaeozoicrock
or
of 20,000
subsidence
element
I cannot
that he
difficulties
enormous
honestly admit
cannot
secondary
above
I have
remove
me,
you
moderately.
mine
as
to
Lyell,*as
sadly
doubts
put my
value
been
it not
written
predicament
so.
say
of
island
would
extensionists
Had
have
it I shall
such
from
answer
letters,
though I inferred
arguments.
on
was
letter is of much
definite
I should
may
Your
"
get
in the enclosed
see
quisitely
ex-
livingbeing-
every
Down,
My
and
the wondrous
to
[1856.
BOOK.
extensions
of Forbes
and
others.
it
1856.]
Please
man
that those
who
I know
of doubt
that
whether
was
Otherwise
amount
of difference
name
whether
And
our
graves,
the most
of
or
not
be
all the
when
conceive
laws
copied before
you
proved
laws of
change,
in formations.
are
in
thought one
of
such
we
notions
MS.
My
With
mine
as
But
specificcentres.
abroad.
go
immaterial
History.
thinks
time.
up your
the
justify
it is
gaps
are
whether
whenever
or
deserved
thinkingit
this
sufficient to
change
Natural
invalidate
take
and
on
thought
of the
of
why Lyell
will
'Vestiges,'
run
surely
Natural
importantparts of
I cannot
not
or
shall have
we
science
his
frequent
think
not
was
permanence
absolute
evidence
what
would
multiply
most
my
producedby generation,
by
speciesare
good
case
also,surprisedat
species are
that all
what
I am,
and
fixed will
not
have
greatlyin thinking
Barnacle, and
only
is,and what
you
him
own
others
I should
name.
to
speciesare
in my
God-created
was
that
believe
specificnames
I differ from
is.
he
wonderful
Lyell'sthat
of
capitalletter
Lyell'sletters.
return
What
source
CLASSIFICATION.
I must
will not, I
fear,
hearty thanks.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
After
"
continental
that
as
giving much
condensed,
two
arguments, and
judges
attach
C. Darwin
to
to
such
some
myselfhave
than
weight
no
argument
my
versus
sentence,
considered
these
them.
J. D. Hooker.
Down, August 5th [1856].
...
though
to
quite agree
me
letters,under
more
valuable
VOL.
I could
II.
Lyell's letters
have
interesting,
Your
I wish
about
to
the
me.
swallow
afforded
me
to
me,
no
new
which,
light.
of
point
view, have been
geological
You
cannot
imagine how earnestlv
continental
extension,but
I cannot
G
82
the
I think
more
head),the
half-dozen
I should
cases,
the
of the
generality
having a considerable
with
one
or
wonderful
which
in
look
at
facts
against continental
of
ground
on
A.
De
is poor
of
is known
anything
with
least
at
work
; but
other
no
see
plants have
no
man's
agency,
theory
of
whether
of
been
to
introduced
notions
my
every
from
in
suppose,
cabbage
no
regard
to
of
call the
think
that the
little harm
which,
dispersal,
of
believes
value
of
me
; when
will
singlecentres
in
that you
kitchen
the
And
surelythis
is centralisation
most
subjectcan,
argument,,
some
do
not
farm
garden
we
enough
tion
modifica-
of climate, "c.
are
at
in which
of
these
cross
the
red
made
Bakewell
in which
specificcentre
sincerelyfor
understand
anything) about
specificcentres,
cattle,the
you
do
to
it
England except by
but
means
worth
Shorthorn
thank
into
produced,or
was
the
Candolle's
does
remarks
the
quite agree
extensions.
your
very
; I should
purposes
scarcely
cannot
the
who
one
(whether or
; I attribute
extension
continental
see
...
in which
De
positive,seems
negativeor
admit
A.
weight.
no
continental
negatived,then
have
see
put myself
opinion,that
say
way
that
stopping investigationof
as
damning
that
I dare
case.
difficulty.I
of distribution.
(and
the
damning'
also
letter I must
my
to
the
of
like
enormous
(in a
means
Candolle's
distribution
be
of
an
view
if you
extension, and
difference
our
What
me.
subscribe
and
your
common
against migration, or
the
follow
I cannot
two)
or
vexatious, also*
It is most
strikinglyput
you
your
(exceptone
utterlystaggers
Epacridae !
some
difficulty
; but
that
me
only
were
least
of all islands
facts
of the
case
feel the
not
mainlands
more
to
humiliating,
way
If there
more
of my
I cannot
(and
[1856-
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
THE
t
species
all your
assistance
; and
1856.]
whether
no
or
sometimes
spiritsand
very
much
phantoms,
of much
in
changes
He
to
would
letter
same
the
In
will have
I
this
you
to
what
to
see
is
letter
Hooker
that
argues
that
that
species
single centres
would
deprive
the present
to
modern
illustrating
however,
recognised,
soon
have
be
to
in
that
faced, for he
Darwin
are
of
me
provinces
and
tertiary
persuades
you
the
phantom
in the
wrote
and
me
father
my
that
will go
many
of
MS.
never
to
over
to
are
the
do, and
Sir
geographical
J. D. Hooker.
unfortunate
wretch, you
one
point of GeographicalDistribution.
ask
such
piece of MS.,
it ; for
aid from
weeks, you
some
on
stillworking at
was
again sought
course
my
one
mind
own
doctrine."
modifiability
will,however,
to
My
have
autumn
the
admit
to
not, I foresee
and
distribution,
"In
I ascribe
which
faith
considered)or
indefinite
have
Whether
"
our
renounce
it.
physicalgeography."
seems
doctrine
interest
plants,as
and
good
the
of the value
animals
of
in very
about
if Darwin
that
he will also
dispersionare
your
"
to
am
July 25,
done
low
[With regard
"
have
wretched, you
Sometimes
question of
the
on
heavens, how
dated
be
may
it less wretched.
best to make
decided
book
my
S$
CENTRES.
SPECIFIC
never
favour
again ;
it is of infinite
in
heartilywish
importance to
life have
my
I could
but in
I felt such
regard
me
for
difficulty
subject
over."
In
letter to
Sir
characteristic passage
J. D. Hooker
occurs,
(June,1856),the following
suggested,no doubt, by the
G
84
THE
kind
entailed
"
which
of work
admirable
now
that
to
memoir
logic in
on
as
distribution,
got it up
I have
Depend
fool
and
man,
to
true
is
his
[E. Forbes']famous
at second hand
C. Darwin
Zealand
W.
to
remember
I
of
writing
desisted,and
am
materials
of
intend
stop
to
Fox,
urgent advice.
I find to
found
far and
Your
remarks
gradual changes
useful
in the
to
any
do
at
throw
up
of
One
all
the
perfectas
as
of
know,
?
pellet
with
not
Lyell's
considerably.
me
so
of
I have
ordinarily
extra-
can
used
bird,how
fowls
attending
I find most
of rabbits.
question. You
the
trace
been
am
lightening
en-
cation.
domesti-
pigeons and
pigeons.
can
has
ducks
rabbits,and
eating
pigeons
and
than
under
which
just had
Rabbits
after
I shall follow
variation
in the skeletons
other
my
do
to
run
have
investigationbeyond
farther
weighed
I have
breeds
odd
any
details ?
you
no
breeds
me.
differences
kept
line
points on
but less
pretty carefully,
ever
work
my
pigeons reallyinvaluable,as
at
many
the Gambia
alive from
up
by
copious old literature,
The
to
it will
on
me
that
Thus
careful work
my
unsatisfactorywork
when
years'collectingsuffice,but
sorrow
my
[1856].
Well,
perfectany
to
work,"]
is
species doctrines.
drawing
now
nineteen
work.
current
such
it
you
sketch of my
found
began
man.
heavens
Oct.
...
page.
commonplace
Flora,that
D.
me,
compiler
speculate
; but, oh, my
New
to
in
viz. that
one,
originalman
an
it appears
as
generaliseand
can
get up
so
saying
it,my
on
great
Any
ill
is wonderful
There
GeographicalDistribution
chapteron
his
[1856.
BOOK.
and
is
UNFINISHED
you
to
Have
you
give
keep
soon
markable
re-
me
hawks
after
they
1856.]
BOTANICAL
subject gives
No
the
as
I will
not
beg
you,
let
if so i?iclinedi
their eggs
apologise
for
me
hear
me
have
dear
how
the
his
"
am
found
it
sketch
working
very
he
hear.
to
get
materials
doing
am
steadily at
allow
without
acceleration
work
my
as
waiting
Do
C. Darwin
Hooker,
DEAR
thanks
miss
for them.
any
like
part of my
Goth
; but
and
big
my
completelyas
to
you
Vandal
battle
condition
had
would
I have
preliminaryessay
any
or
present
my
perfectthem.
seeds
very
And
this
Sunday [Oct.1856].
sorry
are
to
run
; and
wishing Mrs.
in
got
safe,many
so
away
without
time, as
all
come
pleasant evening
most
book
Sir
to
and
soon
ran
away
Hooker
on
the
bye
good-
platform
arrived.
I groan
if you
was
of
particularlyglad
was
fighting a
the
The
only just
was
Darwin.
J. D. Hooker.
to
"
; and
(Nov. 10th)
Down,
My
time,
some-
you."]
to
owe
about
in health
on
of
call-ducks.
on
wrote
quiteimpossible to publish
; but
much
book
me
affectionately,
Fox, yours
to
drive
much
Ch.
[With regard
Charles Lyell :
terrestrial
injurious action
writingso
you
culty
diffi-
experimentisetheir
to
words
some
and
mollusca
will like
you
doubt
speciesof
Land
to
let
and
same
resistance
I believe
My
the
islands.
anyhow get
doings,as
own
my
dispersalof
floating and
salt water.
trouble
much
so
the oceanic
I cannot
of
power
of
means
productionson
mad, and
me
85
GEOGRAPHY.
had
with
to
that
of Botanical
to
always
you
hear
search
our
A.
discussion
clears
Gray
agrees
Geography.
for
my
All
after
fully.
wonder-
mind
with
dinner
about
you
I know
is that
light in ZoologicalGeography
own
subjecta
vast
deal
S6
THE
than
more
gentlemen,
and
them
I have
caked
with
have
cast
!! ! *
mud
hawks
have
behaved
lots of
pelletswith
up
just had
[1856.
BOOK.
The
do.
now
you
; and
UNFINISHED
like
parcel of partridge'sfeet
in
seeds
well
Adios.
Your
insane
and
friend,
perverse
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
My
will
a
HOOKER,
DEAR
think
probable,for
great relief.
would
you
of
On
the
that
bad,
whole.
few
some
(and
was
I had
and
difficulties,
become
facts,evidence, reasoning
conflicting
I had
myself that
to
is
lost all
favourable
incomparablymore
but
do
value
that
HOOKER,
DEAR
not
your
I
letters,that
and
been
I felt
anticipated
after
therefore
Nov.
23rd [1856].
you
with
have
have
to
stint
letters,
I so
flattery,
without
of
heavy batch, as
extravagant and
shall
with
J. D. Hooker.
to
answer
have
money,
"
me
general verdict
Your
I had
than
me
to
opinions,that
Down,
My
relieved
C. Darwin
"
judgment.
have
to
me
bewildered
so
and
not
it very
say
MS.
my
been
or
difficulties seemed
the
had
would
you
has
whether
begged
mind
own
my
idea
you
have
verdict
no
I knew
would
you
To
Your
note.
your
cordiallythan
more
you
honour
my
it
say
kindly) so
burnt
I thank
"
4th [1856].
Nov.
Down,
drawn
late,I feel
much
too
myself on
another
occasion.
When
I sent
questionson
The
contains
thus
the
Whether
you.
mud
MS.
my
am
in such
seeds,
transported.
so
that
stronglythat
of variation
causes
I felt
rightor
cases
often
plants
are
wrong
some
ought
to
in these
On
the
MS.
preliminary
have
been
sent
pointsis quite a
relatingto
graphicaldistribution,
geo-
1856.]
separate question,but
all others
light.
more
on
this
I feel
which
on
of variation
the facts
But
parent) I
marked
look
at
as
varietyor
in
governed by laws,
causing
I look
be
what
may
This
power
Again,
at
species is
The
selection
last
(even with
I cannot
with
agree
altered
conditions,and
look
at
the
first and
whether
knows
I shall have
to
temperate and
last
far
so
will
you
discuss
and
yet done.
(if my
generalprinciplesare
to
the formation
migration,whether
'variability
may
have
"
be
can
shown
far
rightor
perceive at
forms
am
of
in the
shorter
to
right),that
a
S.
your
there
time
driving.
am
of
difficulty
hemisphere
think
selection.
that I
would
species,during
new
or
what
about
more
altered
terms."
to
scope
more
wrong,
important :
more
or
conditions.
convertible
giving
inclined
I have
tendency
race
to external
far
as
to
slow.
only excessively
than
as
think
sub-arctic
But
variability.
or
the
of
selection
in
animals),
associates,are
very
direct relation
whether
principles,
your
is
variability
the
to
I think
as
its
of
formation
variations
obviously with
Therefore, according to my
do
conditions
selected, by which
its associates
copy
strong variety or
due
be
formed, stands,
to
of
can
rough
the
in the most
stands
yet get
endeavouring
am
chance
of nature
plants,and
important relation
wholly
slight differences
at
I may
the
doubt
formation
almost
as
from
judge
closelyto resemble
not
which
called
incorrectly
of
the
of
some
in the state
time, and
of
child
point of
variability.This
mere
species. (No
obscurely to trace.)
species
external
different from
very
new
that
appeal) do
is the
do
weak.
is that
conclusion
subject,my
they
at
to,
come
often
so
domestication, and
variability
(causingthe
mere
much
myself very
under
.extremelylittle,except
the
naturalists
themselves
by
I have
geographical distribution,is
(towhich
conditions
which
conclusion
the
quite independently of
external
87
SELECTION.
NATURAL
than
right
am
be little
the
period
longer,though considerable
supervened.
.
S8
THE
UNFINISHED
C. Darwin
[1856.
BOOK.
J. D. Hooker.
to
24th [1856].
Dec.
How
with.
I do
I have
wish
I lived
justbeen
statingbrieflyhow
comparing
systematic
for
ideas
are
speak
of
prominent in
descent
"species;"
worth
define
the
black
seed
it is not
dozen
resemblance
capital
what
I suppose
taking trouble
of small
which
dung,
it is
trying to
odd
"
I have
got about
now
Adios,
dung.
dear
My
is
germinated, anyhow,
over.
birds'
others
lost the
have
for
go
descent
believe,from
you
they
to
seems
"
It all comes,
different
everythingand
resemblance
the
the birds'
out
was
is
their
out
minds, when
undefinable.
seeds
Indica
naturalists'
in some,
farthing.
worth
work
in some,
reigningidea
an
sterility
unfailingtest,with
some,
from
naturalists
species,and
various
in some,
Creation
of
see
"
"
definitions
matters
reallylaughableto
of littleweight
nothing,and
the key, in
not
It is
me.
discuss
to
you
Flora
the
in
subjects. Aquilegia
example
near
Hooker,
ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
Down, Jan. 1st [1857?]
My
Gray,
Dr.
DEAR
I have
"
your
paper,*and though
must
send
paper
strikes
fancy
and
remark
in
me
and
myself
What
relation
to
'
Journal, 1857.
part of
nothing particularto
The
heartyadmiration.
now
difference
the
of the
the
and
subject,
say, I
whole
I
quite
genera
second
I have
quite exhausting
as
flatter
Flora.
your
thanks
my
you
the
received
Northern
regard
makes
in
to
Europe
I
regard to
in strict
United
have
the
of
your
been
species
conformity with
States.'
"
Sillimaii's
857.]
TREES
results
the
worked
I have
importance
to
great compliment
makes
extremelylike
"riles"
me
Lyell
told
Saurians
to
(thisis
that
me,
first
were
opposed
lied."
never
"
that,
you
right.
Nature
odious
of
nothing
British
him
he
and
thought
made
the
trees
I dare
"
to
repeat
always
are
says
found
the
that
anticipated. So
conclude
polygamous
Britain
classes
further
the
result
I sent
Zealand
is very
of
Flora
other
striking,and
shall work
he
two
classes.
over
loc. cit.
Hooker
to
for this
do
the
end,
; and
so
more
so,
herbaceous
seems
larger area
species of small
Gray,
according
Flora
intermediate
an
It
little
Tasmanian
the
hold
bushes
range
to have
one
notions
my
with
species,genera
in
was
it has
structure.
bushes
from
am
led
it has
strong tendency
was
(though
curious, to
sufficiently
result
my
Persoon, I took
New
the
that
suggestion !
or
in
so
principle.)The
some
will say
you
discriminating trees
three
same
From
theorisers
say
have
of
investigations
his own,
this sagacious naturalist
inclines to think that large genera
"
tions
careful observa-
believe
is another
would
seemed
with
positionbetween
*
it
when
about
predicament, and
speculationsto
tabulate
to
plants. (He
on
accordance
he
should
geographical distribution,yet
I have
as
families,
ask
as
here
this
Flora, and
Loudon,
and
of
not?) dreadfully.
it
some
not
dioecious,monoecious
that
Seeing
the
; but
with
do
with
flowers
to
are,
wild
my
to
you
that
statistics)
your
to
as
plague
one
clusions
con-
your
connection
of
theory
lies,"ergo,
never
Overworked
by
did
this
just in
am
published in detail,for
hearing
he
of
me
such
in
Greenland.
Agassiz having
this,said
to
great
paid
even
line
expression,is
created, on
have
One
the
reasons
proper
It is of
mentioned
through
is
your
you
way
viz. that
groan,
see
the
great honour.
very
me
ways.
simply
strictlyAlpine plants
the
an
in several
By
be
to
consider
paper
out
notions.
my
89
SHRUBS.
AND
genera
to
me
than
the
do."
"
Asa
90
UNFINISHED
THE
curious
and
in
and
itself,
explanationare
correct.*
relation
With
hearty thanks,
is very
much
if my
so,
troublesome
most
your
[1857.
BOOK.
theory
friend,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
for
HOOKER,
DEAR
of your
advantage
What
of
to
I receive
allude
just
polymorphism
variation
these
to
a
little
whole
last
in your
the
on
as
cases,
the
on
note
damnable), as showing
and
are
we
unfair
give nothing.
write
discussed
cases
much,
me
I take
that
all and
could
(thoughodious
me
pleased
head,
my
you
The
profoundly ignorant
I shall
of
out
kindness, as
variation
valuable
how
letter has
splendid discussion
subject of
are
get it
can
never
Your
"
of variation.
causes
of
sort
sub-division
the
more
Rubi, and
equally
or
more
perplexing.
I have
been
just
apparently due
causes
; and
firm
sticklers
putting
the
to
I have
for
immediate
been
and
struck
same
species is
the
same
species than
thinner
brighter-colouredto
near
darker
and
the
sea
"
the
to
the
cases,
distinct
which
seems
plants are
speciesin
to
deep
to
me
the
be
most
See
'
two
of
the
north
and
more
in
now
zones
all
follow
most
fur of
that
of
range
shells
same
that
"
the
the
are
same
insects
livid and
more
"
south
water
smaller
mountains
on
than
south
The
result.
that
"
of external
action
one
the
north
mountains
on
that
brighter flowers
with
towards
[shell]is paler-colouredin
smaller
direct
independent creation
the
variations
togetheron
notes
my
testaceous
hairy and
such,
the
are
and
same
with
other
rule,
and
varieties,
Origin,'ed.
i. p.
100.
therefore
following
1I857-]
the
WATER-CURE.
laws
same
all this
what
examples, for
no
remarks
of
Do
you
there
called,of plants
generally so
.as
believe
you
ascending
I have
square
mountain
astonished
the
at
killed ; I
was
expected
it
exogens.
HOOKER,
I
here, where
been
amount
of
up,
and
Already
59
but
What
varieties,
hairy,and
the
and
still
have
be, and
to
seems
in
am
more
at
been
so
I attributed
of
destruction
suffer
feet
that this
fancied
I had
to
to
less
much
the
than
jf.D. Hooker.
good
even
how
It dulls
my
specieswas
me
aback
; I
act
it
as
since
thought
generallyadmitted
for
and
in the
not
an
quite
hearty Christian,
least understand
on
thought
leaving home.
me.
about
Your
note
hairiness,"c, of Alpine
the
I
received
certainlydoes
have
to
fortnight,
myself
I cannot
good.
kind
to
like
eat
splendidly;
any
forwarded
having already
and
can
[April(?)1857.]
been
quite incredible
walk
nights are
singlespeciesof
taken
is
can
brain
letter has
week, and
hydropathy
one's
Park, Farnham,
undergoing hydropathy
which
I
Your
"
am
here
unaccountable.
has
so
DEAR
having
in
garden,"of
come
Moor
and
being
more
it appears,
as
seem
C. Darwin
me
many
My
become
choking,
mere
Grass-seedlings
seedlings.
so
in it.
tendency
weed
many,
than
exclusively to
almost
that
good
potent check
less
truth
some
is any
by slugs,"c.
killed
number
seedling
number
the
"
in my
each
mark
on
dispute
interested
been
is
to
and
flowers
brighter-coloured
proportionallylarger and
with
doubt
mountains
plantson
there
ascending
only generally
stumbled
yet I have
characterised,that I presume
think
much
so
I mention
in
plants
foregoingremark
add, there is
varieties
on
varieties.
of
variation
the
to
casual
the
quoted
; I have
mountains
with
of
account
on
admitted
recognisedand
as
91
am
sure
I have
seen
it
92
alluded
it the
to
day
you
would
to
the
on
the
But
Alps.
after
by findingone
belief from
you
have
The
I knew
so
being
I must
he
all to
at
confess,the
of
knew
when
got marked
hairs
very
that
on
damned,
you
remark
any
oppositionto
I do
quite
not
so
know
criticism
tell you
it.
be
would
you
some
general
with
what
; and
an
ception.
ex-
for
case
if
me
habitats.
in
dry
of
Alpine plants as
marked
not
passages,
authors
I asked
advance.
Falconer, whether
that
the
an
out
feel
of your
own
yet much
deference
against you,
but
I have
there
by
entire
little
a
a
to
bad
be
deference
; but
when
in
feel
involuntarily
devil,I somehow
poor
are
deserves
head
me
thought
made
who
observer
think
you
sometimes
remark
utterlydamn.
make
Pyrenees losing
Shall
I have
somewhere
present case),
you
; that
right;
second, my
I have
certain
am
the
this
now
Montpellier.
at
much, but
good
hairy plantsfrom
observers
bad
cannot
not
observer
to
of
My
of climate
But
not.
and
me,
case
same
cultivated
when
hard
too
the
Alpine plantsas
be
day, when
other
on
Linnaeus
agree
of evidence
kind
individual
flashes
of
I have
that
what
transported, he
memory
influence
at the hairiness
looked
see
to
odoriferous
more
generallyacknowledged
as
staggered
was
white, and
quite
would
odoriferousness
of varieties
apetalous?
is
hairiness
the
to
work
little direct
the
just alluded
often
plants
in.
think)saying that
be
to
littlebook
even
plants apetalous,
compiling
about
say
makes
Arctic
my
remark
some
characterized
so
I confess
you,
stronglyinclined
are
Are
species!
being
(Moquin-Tandon,
cold
that
saying
writing to
makes
on
fellow
such
some
has written
varieties
on
man
Alpine flowers
Gay, or
or
plants. Wimmer
lines,and
same
haranguing
was
I remember,
despise),
Chilian Cordillera
on
Falconer
Meyen
me.
[1857.
BOOK.
of times.
score
other
(whom
my
UNFINISHED
THE
for your
is any
often
opinion.
truth
thought
in this
I would
1857J
I
EXPEDITION.
NOVARA
put only
intended
to
probably
have
obliged for
much
reallyvery
am
that
vaguely,I
should
strongly.
too
Hooker, yours
dear
Ever, my
letter,for,though I
your
and
sentence
one
93
truly,
most
C. Darwin.
P.S.
This
"
note,
as
see, has
you
anything requiringan
not
answer.
The
incubus
to
hatched
crawl
of fresh-water
distribution
they
are
duck's
and
I know
active,and
very
dead
on
I think
but
me,
molluscs
my
has
had
horrid
; when
now
way
I have
been
first
thirtyor forty
foot ; and
be
jerked off,
even
out
of water.
they cannot
twenty-fourhours
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Feb.
Down,
My
about
the Austrian
to
the
Lyell,
DEAR
be
influence
the
places
"
deliberate
most
Natural
the
choice
any
the
most
lignitebeds, and
Every sea-shell
spots. Some
*
The
article
Enquiry.'
one
very
much
whether
and
"Geology"
only
fixed
the
scientific
know
nothing
would
there
are
the
to
men
It is my
aid
more,
all
investigating
dAcunha
is to
make
signs of
plant
and
; and
out
Kerat
about
the
is of value
'Admiralty
the
even
from
Expedition especially
ought to
in
But
spots.
islands,especiallyof
Tristan
there
gically
geolowhether
desirable.
imperfectlyknown
insect and
in the
not
most
isolated
add
I do
and
collecting
Except
be
[1857].
newspapers
nothingto
in
that
careful
hemisphere.
Kerguelen Land,
I have
power
in the
see
call at
this would
History,than
southern
or
to
conviction
productionsof
to
in the Manual.*
is tied down
Expedition
if there
glad
was
Expedition.
notes
my
"
nth
'Manual
of
such
have
Scientific
Hooker's
New
Zealand
its fossil
of
Again
kind.
every
so
island
be
must
near,
of
little spots
of these
by
geologically. Can
'
'
and
Journal
If
they
Cocos
craters
Albemarle
on
Zealand
New
the
Urge
nothing
use
know
we
them
on
urge
of old
marks
and
Island,
to
outer
of the
grand
the
to
examine
look
the
get
;;
my
Galapagos.
and
of
of
one
to
shame
able
not
The
be
them
Islet,one
was
Cocos
investigation
would
account
on
the
and
glorious,botanically,
it will be
north
be
'
Islands
always regrettedthat
The
recommend
not
the
at
land.
of naturalists
would
Volcanic
call
not
band
you
from
come
do
they
'
older
some
is little known.
Amsterdam
and
St. Paul's
of
Fernandez
Juan
productions
Seychelles,which, with
the
explore
to
little known
birds,and
remnant
grand work
What
Essay.
Rodriguez, with
[1857..
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
THE
94
sin if
Galapagos.
the
great-
Galapagos.
In
out
glaciers.
the
of
of
dredge
the
limit
in the
how
Tropics ;
of life downward
little
or
in the
hot
much
the
seas
My
present work
domestic
animals
leads
been
have
perceive
to
me
neglected
in
how
of
out
the
way
countries.
RevillagigedoIsland
The
trodden
been
If
the
Good
of
by
off
Mexico, I believe,has
never
foot of naturalist.
expedition sticks
to
and
Hope, Ceylon
such
places
Australia,"c,
Rio, Cape
as
it will
do
not
much.
Ever
most
yours
truly,
C.
[The followingpassage
February
which
on
"
wish
or
am
22,
he
got
I could
was
most
set
posthumous,
reference
has
1857, and
in
occurs
still at work
than
on
letter
to the book
to
on
Mr.
Fox,.
Evolution
deeply interested
less value
Darwin.
in my
the bauble
do, but
not
subject; though
fame,
think,to
either
any
present
extreme
I857.]
FROM
ARGUMENT
degree : yet,
myself, I
know
less
gusto, if I knew
ever
anonymously."]
publishedfor
C. Darwin
to A.
9$
would
if I
with
though
DOMESTICATION.
work
that
R.
Sir,
DEAR
"
10th, from
October
Celebes, received
By
in the
paper
that
I agree
Annals,
theoretical
his
note-book,
the
on
20th
though
I have
shall go
to
profitby
work
appears,
I have
facts.
of
keeping
of
nature,
opinion.
"
Ann.
On
the
Nat.
Law
am
Hist, 1853.
of
your
that it is
subjectso
I have
will
accordance
not
those
am
regulatedthe
how
long
might
before
in
be backed
doubt
of New
of
advice
your
state
doubted
Introduction
my
large harvest
appearing
glad to
suppose
I wish
with
sometimes
have
I
species
large,that
very
there
reap
first
my
do
heard
Travels
your
This
preparing my
do
never
any
draws
man
way
confess,however, I rather
has
in the
me
now
chapters,I
you
therefore
that
Paper
opened
in what
and
varieties,and
this,and
must
already in
acted
have
facts.
Malay Archipelago;
doubt
no
domestic
(!)since
years.
the
distinct ; but
of
wisdom
year
other.
publicationof
for
same
many
for two
staying in
the
the very
I find the
written
press
intend
you
each
but
publication,
for
work
extent
each
from
question how
and
"
the
make
with
how
couragement.
en-
plainly see
word
every
your
; for it is lamentable
paper
will
almost
by
can
the
to
real
more
of
; in
ago
and
certain
will agree
you
different conclusions
own
summer
oneself
ago,
to
letter
days
still
regard
of
be
1857.
1st,
your
few
even
In
truth
for
valuable
alike and
that
say
find
to
rare
very
the
to
I dare
; and
paper
much
would
Park, May
more
or
conclusions.
similar
to
come
Annals',a year
thought
have
we
is
letter and
your
hard,
as
Wallace.
obliged
undertaking, sympathy
laborious
much
am
book
my
Moor
My
just
of
by
the
the
your
truth
r
Species.'
96
THE
of the
now
having descended
that
better
evidence
it is
several
in
so
and
carefully recorded
ad
to
"
in
facts
climatal
they are
(in the
views
in
variation
whether
conviction
firmest
; for the
alas,not
seems,
; but
nature
"
author,
its
of
state
some
collection
of
(and
the
on
you
referred
sees
little effect
very
I
you
fullybelieve
that
to explain my
reallyimpossible
on
letter),
tangibleidea,
distinct and
judge
of
compass
is rather
than
with
one
influences,but
not
Gaertner
and
I suppose
It is
slight.
very
there
plants the
entirelyagree
I do
animals
conditions,"which
such
to
I think
to
animals
though
Kolreuter
by
I most
be attributed
must
stocks
cases.
regard
in all books
nauseam
domestic
our
of hybrid
sterility
Herbert)is enormous.
little effects of
of all
wild
some
the
on
admit
to
seem
from
[1857.
BOOK.
prevalentdoctrine
very
doubt
UNFINISHED
the
and
causes
of
means
I have
slowlyadopted a
true
false others
or
of the truth
to
be
the
to
J. D. Hooker?
of
must
doctrine
by
slightest
guarantee
of
truth !
.
C. Darwin
Moor
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
You
"
have
shaved
The
Alpine plants pretty effectually.
"
will make
becoming
glabrous at
tie
"
through final
talk
it
my
to
of
own.
my
ugly
your
it would
low
levels.
will
could
the
facts
of
having
asked
I silenced
not
the
whisperagain
evidence
that
I have
before
originated!
plants warm
second-class
of the
Anthyllis
Pyrenees plants
If I do find
have
off the
you.
Was
it
Falconer
in
candidly and
little voice
of
case
hair
of the
case
the
lay
keep
two
defence
noble
owing
but
the
How
off,an
of
to
severity to
your
believed
belief
causes
coupled
mammals.
on
the
how
I wonder
the
facts, I
such
marked
with
the
once
me,
poor
seldom
ugly
and
After
men.
in
or
twice, how
spiritand
smashed
little voice
again.
I had
in
I sometimes
much
fact,was
favourite
with
sent
notions
contempt,
despise
857.]
myself
I do
VARIABILITY.
whole
despise my
not
known
compileras heartilyas
poor
as
C. Darwin
laugh
HOOKER,
DEAR
you
did
you
of
might
or
a
the
of collected
abnormal
To
facts.
in
the
is very variable
in the
strikingand
[May]
in
variable
point,for
however
when
doubt
its bill
beak
only when
part
or
organ
inclination
be
of
; but
a
one
from
one
its
this from
with
legs.
lengthof
I could
have
with
it to
have
or
has
it to
be
allied
closely
part
or
organ
to
to
many
in the
Nepenthes
expect
many
group
expected
group
legs,
ignorance.
an
case
organ,
variable,
"
speciesdiffer greatlyin
forms
so
consider
genus
not
its
none
my
speciesin
The
give
I have
believe, to
not
other
eminentlyvariable.
two
or
I do
few
mass
my
compared
But
I should
I do
the
is
chance.
whole
or
species,tends
general points,
and
the wonderful
from
curious
anomalous,
it is
VOL.
that
an
of
pitcherdeveloped, then
very
[1857].
"
in allied
organ
length of
consisted
Nepenthes
been
animal
16th
hope honestly
time
as
cannot
the
it cannot
I think
that
or
structure
Himantopus, remarkable
most
"
not
or
give
and
Fringillidse,
allied
said
the
part
same
highly variable.
be
....
in
to
in
very
"
kingdom that
strosity)
developed normally, {i.e.not a monorgan
pared
species in any high or unusual degree, com-
serve.
with
find
these
over
asking questions on
my
answering
course
part
any
dislike
not
You
"
myself
at
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down
My
originof
apetalousflowers
or
enough
"
write
may
is
the
on
and
that
as
do, though
there
discussion
despise
to
could
you
I think
as
for the
led
been
I have
species.
work,
foundation
lay a
to
97
some
one
it in all other
be
highlyvariH
gS
UNFINISHED
THE
able.
Will
this in your
turn
you
[1857U
BOOK.
mind
? it is
important
an
me.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I find
of
I do
know
how
Moquin-Tandon
treats
"
not
plants,and
altitude ; but
mountain
plants
in part
of mountain
give them
so
the
Teratologic on
more
it must
that
Candolle's
De
Senebier, PhysiologieVegetale,'as
becoming
that
positively
dry districts,then
in
C. Darwin
that
is only
villosity
the
dwarfed
hairs,and
He
hairy.
authority
"
the
endemic
the
more
admitted
than
quotes
suppose
plantsbeing hairy.
show
hairy
more
be
that the
more
'
If I could
dryness
condense
appearci7iceof being
villosity
to
this
remark
plants would
the firstauthority,
for mountain
hear, but
to
care
'
'
that
villose,and
are
explained by
condition
in his
think
to
seems
will
you
attribute
to
seems
far
of the
case
would
specieswere
be
varieties
fact for
me.
J. D. Hooker.
to
HOOKER,
DEAR
having
prose
on
greater enjoyment
I for
months
in
regard
to
than
me
do
will
you
not
open
in part be
occurred
to
; for
me
ought
pistil
flower,and
the
thinkingof
this I at
was
from
variable
in any
the beak
and
I have
of
am
once
to
me,
say
for
Indeed,
be very
felt how
But
staggered.
am
Yet
How
not
on
and
is
the
by
Natural
staggers
absence
the
after
one
me
of
difficulty
writing,this
stylosacoming
variable in
could
high degree.
bird !
mouth
my
Crucianella
to
this
readilyunderstand,as
accounted
measuring slightvariations.
and
you,
I dare
proposition.
my
enjoy myself by
to
subjects to
facts may
botanical
of
to
going
am
own
my
together
Your
History.
"
into
length,and
judge whether
it
for instance,
different,
satisfied with
I think
there is
this
planation,
ex-
something
1857.]
VARIABILITY.
had
I wrote
to
Beetles
and
tell
whether
head
enormous
an
in
of my
many
Cirripedes. The
accidental
cases
of
though
one
or
seemed
more
the
by
picked up,
than
I have
had
that you
the
kept
is
case
one
my
meadow,
fightgoes
reflected
over
flower.
will
likewise
my
on
lawn
Here
a
in
on
as
it has
come
Out
make
to
grow
feet,I have
up, and
of these
the way,
at
Moor
effects of animals
commons
with
about
eight or
clumps
ten
on
years
ago
dreamed
mind.
see
gether
Alto-
of seed
sown
on
now
they
more
than
has
taken
in
seedlings,
the other
the
little clearer
but
which
hand, in
each
are
one
place
a
bit of
bit of
seedlingweed
and
357 have
alreadybeen killed,chiefly
by
Park, I
rather
saw
vegetation:
of old
proposition
scale, on
choking
277 have
is
small
kinds
daily marked
many
puzzles. My
whether
On
as
horrid
I doubt
up.
and
never
your
me
germinated,
have
we
many
of sixteen
that
all before
a
infinitely
to
case,
works, which
slugs. By
of the
in botanical
of my
so
rate
find any
zoologicalworks.
subjectat
ting
put-
of evidence
want
generallyI
as
the
velopment.
de-
my
support, quite
allowed
ground,2 by
to
observations
on.
abnormal
had
seemed
for
numerous
you
fifteen have
such
perishingat
too
object to
hermaphrodite
will not
more
obseivations, though
how
far
female
or
you
me,
the
male
with
wholly contradictory.This
easilytested
be accounted
plantsmay
me
book,
astonishingly
was
and
great variability
cases
surprisingto
more
more
two
or
to
in his
that
saying that
note
head
strikingcases
seem
I presume
unique case
being secondary
I have
coincidences
me
gave
size of the
cases
then
but
characters
presentedanything very
one
any
the Madeira
through
run
Part
variable.
by
to
the
ask him
to
me
many
anomalous
of
so
99
Scotch
some
there
firs
on
of these
pretty case
are
enormous
the
and
hills,
commons
were
UNFINISHED
THE
100
all
enclosed, and
the
springingup by
of the
are
many
same
I then
seen.
for miles
went
roam
occasionally
three inches
old, with
What
short
the kind
proportionof
and
pleased
to
when
wonder
few
as
square
which
littletree,
twenty-six years
sealing-wax.
determining
play of forces,
each
plant in
animal
some
I found
cattle
stick of
could
of the
one
One
trulywonderful.
mind
It is to my
of turf !
the
is,what
it
problem
there
heaths.
not
mile
by
thick
as
of
to be
planted,so
tree
young
(thirtyin
off
are
common,
firs
ringsappeared
about
stem
wondrous
the
one
heather,and
these wretched
over
high,by
not
Scotch
nibbled
their tops
with
yard)
the
closelyin
if
parts of the
and
trees
young
(within quarter
near
of young
of thousands
tens
In other
age.
looked
clumps) and
nice
clumps
million,lookingexactly as
the
round
[1857.
BOOK.
yard
square
And
yet
we
are
plant becomes
or
extinct.
I
am
so
is
Hooker
going to
children is
not
will
that you
sorry
Yarmouth
the
at
; I trust
the motive.
Club.
see
Mrs.
of your
Good-bye.
dear
My
be
not
Hooker,
ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I believe you
"
pod, for
afraid
are
float it from
fear I should
C. Darwin
to
send
to
me
ripeEdwardsia
Zealand
New
to
Chile ! ! !
jf.D. Hooker.
Down, June 5 [1857].
My
about
a
It is
mere
Whether
interested
an
to
"
honour
God
Thank
the medals.*
much
medals
HOOKER,
DEAR
the
one) on
younger
reward
medals
men
whose
to men
do
ever
*
in the
The
any
! I
conscientious
your
only an
am
care
(but
amateur
subject.
that
good
more
earlypart
scientific
good
by giving
of their career,
career
is
is done
is
than
nearly finished.
question which
medals.
Royal Society's
as
does
857.]
not
MEDALS.
concern
think
to
medals
deserving
regard
of the
his
prodigy
as
to
could
medals
I confess
men.
which
I
be
can
obvious
abnormal
on
of
of your
variabilityof parts.
smashed
while
for
it is
they can
be
moderately
abnormal
or
the
especialclaims
to
that
there
from
I have
in which
should
be
group
distinct,and
connected
Will
considering,for
been
all my
notes
Equus
and
the
at
turn
in your
the
an
on
a
so
part is
such
with
you
as
the
the variation
the
variability
in all the
this
assistance
way
haps
Per-
species
in
further
comparing
speciesof
crossing. Taking
blessed
by
morning
of the several
complete
perplexingsubjectof polymorphism.
perfect your
interested
for if
coincide
the
me
possiblybeing something
not
be
little
tell
cases
at
abnormalityend.
highlyvariable
excluded,
for
and
organ,
mind
your
been
pletely
com-
more
as
mind
development,it v/ould
the
of
general
great
law
pick out
of at
not
are
of judging
difficulty
look
onlybeginningin
such
Waterhouse's) law
rather
to
easy
for
Perhaps
to
exclusively
showing
of
variability
question instead
cases
I have
would
of great
It is
of the
medals
do
picked out, and, notwithstanding,
great
smasher.
end
if you
cases
whether
with
inconceivable
about
I should
solelywith
reallycared
to stick
or
just
once
who
men
your
remark
are
an
thinking more
of
such
(or
claims
it
such
Crown
paper.
my
think
aided
appliedthan
by
especial
no
who
or
"
present I incline
confounded
instances
extent
better
put down
much
am
at
with
ones
give
rich man,
the
inclined
standard, and
general
very
give
be
not
if
to
of
you
old
to
door
grand
minister
Would
science.
the
almost
am
especialclaims,
to
the
of
case
but
money,
than
are.
lower
attention, that
your
admitted, it opens
Think
rather
workers
young
With
claims.
the medals
I would
that
to
there
as
us,
101
the genus
most
pigeons for
my
strictly
guide,
.102
UNFINISHED
THE
I believe
grandfather of
the
millions
some
sneer[ed]at
years
generations
the
at
such
to
seems
Zebra,
not
to
good
so
of the
and
remark
a
me
of my
end
Hemionus
Should
ago
made
evidence
my
vision
publish my
who
one
any
; but
ago
of
marks
colouringand
the
plainly see
can
[1857.
BOOK.
[have]
me
few
I shall
that
little discussion
this
on
genus.
of late inundated
I have
friends and
with
you
best
notions, you
my
of
philosophers.
Adios,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Moor
My
ask
HOOKER,
DEAR
whenever
you
gorses,
This
"
Look
meet.
we
with
one
especially
requires no
enclosed
at
top knocked
the
I will
but
answer,
seedling
The
off.
leaves
animals,
young
striped.
Dr.
are
I shall ask
Lanef
as,
I return
wife, and
and
home
instance, the
on
being
people I
the
lion
young
this is so.*
whether
you
of the nicest
some
for
have
ever
met.
dear
30th. Good-bye, my
Ever
Hooker.
yours,
C. Darwin.
on
of various
[Here follows a group of letters,
the questionof largegenera
varying.]
C. Darwin
to
dates,bearing
J. D. Hooker.
nth
March
...
the
led
was
to
species in largegenera
*
See
The
'
Power
were
of Movements
physicianat
Moor
by
remark
of
Fries,that
closelyrelated
more
in
Park.
Plants,'
p.
414.
[1858].
to each
3857.]
in small
"other than
that
I should
the
small.
"discussion
find
service,whatever
It will
be
for
work
hard
in the
will read
you
done
have
You
infinite
me
attention
botanists
in the small
largethan
be
in
candid
in
short
my
probability of
the
to
me
than
large genera
to, in drawing my
come
possibilityor
varieties
recording more
hope
subject.
opinion
the
least
at
to
day
the whole
on
in the
varieties
Some
.
seeing that
so,
were
I concluded
hardly distinguishable,
so
more
IO3
if this
; and
genera
speciesare
varieties and
VARYING.
GENERA
LARGE
genera.
coming
to
my
conclusion.
Ever
truly,
most
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
work
"
shall
been
has
turning
sick at heart
am
weeks
several
be
at
badly for
out
and, oh ! how
C. Darwin
to
my
this
me
varieties.
speciesand
I do hate
morning, and
J. D. Hooker.
July 14th [1857?]
viz. the
1st
If y"u
send
you
impossible in
I have
by
anyhow
can
been
Topographie
find
the Linnean
making
of post
return
them,
Library,in
some
the
grossest blunder
dead-lock
*
The
two
or
till I have
late
Mr.
Society'sLibrary.
three weeks'
these
Kippist was
books
which
at
lost work
this time
go
in
I know
over
will
nearly
they are.
"c,
varieties,
pointed out
in
at
try whether
about
made
to
them,
not
I fear will be
he has
I have
which
them
send
I must
as
calculations
have
which
and
which
Regensburg,
von
will you
If you
address.
France, either
la
Ratisbonensis," by
Flora
"
possiblyspare them,
can
line
one
Kippist *
Naturhist.
enclosed
the
to
once
'
de
centre
best ; also
edition,last
Furnrohr, in
1839.'
du
Borean, Flore
favour,
earnestly a
supplicate most
to
now
of
loan
2nd
or
Dr.
write
to
me
and
principle,
; and
am
again, and
charge
of the
at
see
Linnean
UNFINISHED
THE
104
what
the
most
and
am
to
with
cry
is.
rightprinciple
the
on
miserable,bemuddled,
ready
[1857.
BOOK.
in all
stupid dog
vexation
at
England,
blindness
my
am
and
presumption.
Ever
miserably,
most
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
My
Lubbock,
DEAR
possible service
as
"
what
book
I have
There
all
on
muzzy
in
species in
of 3 and
genera
The
339
The
(339
::
323
323
51
been
I
had
way
for my
that
before
was
What
of it,but
am
suggested.
you
upwards, and
in
323
the
case
general,for
should
It is
the
done
not
much
rightway
it had
it not
you.
am
and
subjectmuch,
have
is the
with
easilyI
it,but
to
me
have
more
48J species
I want
yours
never
to find how
had
as
goes
or
Proportionately
have
to
fortunate conversation
thought over
muddled,
for I
concluded
my
dreadfullyerroneous.
disgracefulblunder
thank
heartily
as
only 37.
quite convinced
am
most
fair.
have
it be
quite shocked
am
If I
proportionand chance,
Flora
48'S)they ought
So
in.
thought
greatest
brains.
speciespresentingone
51
species
the
less.
presentingvars.
confidence
me
of 4 and
genera
specieshave
varieties.
done
Zealand
New
[July]14th [1857].
on
am
produce
the
Down,
clarifymy
to
subjects as
I shall
339
have
You
"
helpingme
divided
are
John Lubbock.
to
have
you
saved
me
from.
you.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
"
give up
It
in
is
to
make
tear
me
all my
up
MS.
and
despair.
It will take
But
enough
oh, if you
me
knew
several weeks
how
thankful
to
go
am
over
all my
to you
materials.
1857.]
VARYING.
GENERA
LARGE
C. Darwin
105
J. D. Hooker.
to
Aug. [1857].
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
and
busy
you
be ! with
must
have
Only think, I
will
here
come
size of genera,
Greek
gone)
have
letters
to
seems
me
many
ways
think
of any
with
and
marked
Babington
Henslow
......"
done,
or
make
Those
H.
few
are
much
have
is in
would
you
species,
hair-splitters
Zealand.
{
[ Fragment
Could
you
Flora, which
._,.__
publisheda good
make
States.
Madeira
ought to
the
subject
or
"j
C. Watson
....
"
"
British Flora.
Koch
who
species
1000-2000
to
( N.
Floras
Holland.
Russian
yet
France.
varieties ?
grand
marked
"
not
to
doing :
U.
Wollaston
me.
I have
as
small
The
from
good
am
....
TT
Hooker
(as far
; I wish
me
with
....
Miquel
Asa Gray
for
varieties
only
are
It is
Catalogue.
Boreau
Boreau
important arguments
most
Floras
marked.
I have
lumpers.*
mark
the result
for
grand?
tabulating,according
varieties.
important
very
the varieties
Has
in
that
he
humbly supplicate
must
kindly got
most
of the
well-worked
London
The
Is not
15th!
specieshaving any
one
Kew.
at
and
otherwise
or
How
sooner.
Henslow, saying
met
yet
the
write
come
letter from
Furnrohr.
for it : he
cannot
you
of botanists
heap
am
mere
by
nth
between
search
Kippist to
I did not
such
justhad
about
thanks
Many
horrid bore
reproachmyself that
soon,
It is
"
send
of Indian
insects.
German
it
me
perhaps
Flora.
has
Flora ?
Is there
varieties
Does
not
he
some
marked
be well known.
speciesare
lumpers."
many
the
"
and
splitters,"
those
who
106
in
am
hurry
no
error.
few
[1857.
BOOK.
weeks.
have
you
Will
The
clearlysee
to Asa
Gray,
DEAR
does
answer
"owing
to
remark
which
credit,and
He
suggested
Hooker
Feb.
Do
hint
to
seems
think
you
he
small
good
Candolle's,would
his
to
him
in
equallyin
about
conscious
recorded
small
I know
; but
are
worth
send
be
carefullythe
more
genera
fleetingand
query
marking
me
ever
like
unintentionally
in the
tendency
have
you
varieties in
Greek
large or
be to record
of all sizes ?
that
local
up
Are
you
attended
the
self
your-
to, and
largeor small,or
very
"
what
my
reflection
on
the
genera
"
{i.e.marking with
genera
varieties
ing
discover-
Prodromus
in the small
he
question :
drawing
think, and
letters and
not
generallybelieve
but
universally,
record
letters.
my
I would
is my
making
me,
I cannot
ingenuity in
Here
in
of
to
to
which
one
sometimes,
botanists
almost
tend
unconsciously,
and
is
large,or
or
thought.
admirable.
me
that
Flora, whether
De
he
what
I told
and
asking you,
service
great
by
favour, this
little trouble
very
him
[1859].
21st
no
by Hooker,
me
and
it,rather over-critical,
flaws
"
you
suggestedto
was
begged
of very
to
implicitly,but
confesses
be
made
my
least
the
give
reallycost
it will
and
me,
last letter
My
"
it will
but
causes
many
Gray.
Down,
one
subjectis
C. Darwin
My
this in
turn
you
leisure ?
work, though
for my
important
very
for
if ever,
head, when,
your
"of
UNFINISHED
THE
and
so
great service
appliesto
such
recording.
brief
to
things varieties
trifling
an
answer
as
If you
to
have
could
this,pretty
very
been
thought
screw
time
soon,
most
truly obliged,
Ch.
to
it would
me.
Yours
often
Darwin.
857.]
P.S.
LARGE
Do
"
remarks
any
the
on
comparison
an
with
the
I have
with
exception
Mr.
by
me
Watson
give me
to
not
If you
letters
[for]me
get
to
.botanists
some
little information
paper
brief
answer
assure
soon,
in
stronger
to
record
could
you
weaker
or
such
in
*"
range,"and
You
have
read
to
the
undertaken
there
it is ; but
further
correction,and
how,
small
If you
have
the whole
day, so
as
sake, you
my
may
much
save
stern
conclusions
have
MS.
my
the
on
in
job
so
it
make
"commonness,"
small
The
style
of
just
corrected
and
tough
present I
at
requires
course
try, but
must
genera.
kindly offering
very
clearer,and
publishedI
if
of
[1858].
6th
May
I have
warmly.
it.
minds
genera.
you
whether
yet
as
see
it clearer.
to
subject,I
to
the
in
more
J. D. Hooker.
horrid
sight of
make
to
of
I cannot
the
very
am
other
are
but
disappointedin findinghow
am
loathe
not
"
I thank
and
copy,
post
variation
it,and
obscure
this
by
"
so
enclose
genera,
tendency
largeor
to
whether
not
Down,
I send
States,
if
head, and
smaller
largeror
C. Darwin
...
in U.
expect it.
to
as
you,
given
be
this
on
to
idea, and
this head
on
Shells
perhaps it would
plants
supposed
are
vague
Land
on
of
forward.
to
varieties
is
they
fewer
there
tried
writing to England
are
Please
which
published
ever
of varieties
; but
unreasonable, /
so
or
of
in
even
has
one
any
species to
in vain
quite failed
I have
IO7
geographical range
belong?
the
whether
know
you
VARYING.
GENERA
would
may
recorded
and
meet
have
can
awful
be
more
judge
true,
patience to
in London
you
the trouble
you
and
say
of
on
writing. For
and
Heaven's
sceptic,remember
notwithstandingthat
varieties
consider
in
large than
that
Botanists
in
small
108
THE
genera.
It
Again
I thank
horrid
UNFINISHED
to
seems
me
balancing of probabilities.
mere
I fear you
but
sincerely,
most
you
[1857.
BOOK.
will find it
job.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
letters
[The
continue
now
the
historyof
C. Darwin
to A.
My
"
extremely glad
in
believer
are
you
22nd, 1857.
of
distribution
You
that
say
that
I am,
the
Sir C.
men,
called
; but
I have
animals
of the whole
very
in
Ann.
the
it.
Am
On
in the Annals.*
the
Nat.
Law
that
has
Hist.,1855.
care
But
for
plants.
notice
no
I cannot
say
anythingbeyond
must
you
attended
to
I go
subjectto
seen
your
Islands.
not
two
suppose
good
very
to
to
on
shall
my
the
on
paper
further than
much
enter
that the
imperfectlytrying
I shall be
surprisedat
I believe
yet
that
paper,
not
points as
E.
globe in respect
Archipelago.
"
somewhat
Mr.
long
original
of
been
utmost
been
that
in
it is too
notions.
to
and
such
to
firm
dreadfully behind
naturalists
not
Lyell, and
attention
my
conclusions
you
has
paper
your
am
subject of
paper
few
very
bution
distri-
been
of your
good
no
attended
descriptionof species.
mere
that
so
is
have
you
for
animals
taken
been
having
on
have
ideas.
is
Sept.27th.
attendingto
are
you
speculationthere
work
at
letter of
theoretical
travellers
Few
now
that
with
that without
for your
you
hear
to
accordance
observation.
"
I thank
Sir,
DEAR
am
Dec.
1857
Wallace.
R.
Down,
of
years
1858.]
and
the
read
and
distribution,
collect data
regulatedthe
distribution
it with
the
interesting
quarter
most
quite prepared
speculative
to
I have
for the
subscribe
Introduction
of New
long
Malay
to
your
Species.1*
1857.]
EXTENSION.
CONTINENTAL
subsidence
indeed, from
doctrine
of
evidence
Coral
of the
volume)
inclined
former
and
it),
will be
wrote
glad
out
that neither
hear
to
I dare
withstand
the almost
ask
land-shells
has
Madeira
here
and
arguments.
I cannot
at
introduction
the
of Timor
mammals
have
for the
been
at
work
settle
anything ;
of
but
facts,with
partly from
I
one
less
hope
to
Hooker
thought
in
once
life,
my
of
of
you
to
sub-
are
which
identity,
for
duction
intro-
by
Gould
have
has
thus
These
been
of
cases
not
found
me
in the lists of
several
it
so
in
in all probability
"
man."
I think
surrounded
with
highestand
interesting
most
which
I have
work,
for
it will aid
definite end.
on
I shall
prejudices
;
My
ill-health,
partlyfrom
tinents
con-
Europe,
of them
agency.
discuss
so
from
those
account
seemed
that it is the
or
you
islands,that
other
naturalist.
more
but
some
Have
It has
subject,as
problem
opposition;
cases
are
man's
by
I shall
fullyadmit
treat
land-shells
many
naturalised.
whole
the
though
been
whether
ask
You
and
to
agency
Malay Archipelago ?
avoid
there
plaguing.
most
are
this
shall have
with
identical
reallygood, as
the Pacific
over
land
Zea-
New
far distant
islands
on
is
that
the
I discussed
Lyell nor
few
man's
conclusively shown
distributed
in
been
discusses
and
ago
(forI
through
Ever
sagacity of Lyell.
preternatural
fossil.
year
the
to
doctrine,it has
Islands
the evidence
regard
continents.
Nevertheless, for
of my
about
in
elaborately
Hooker
that you
see
can
am
this
(inmy
subsidence,but
with
islands
arguments
my
much
You
than
About
Lyell and
with
subject much
But
Hooker
America.
of
one
South
quite independent
originalmap
my
as
propounded
and
connection
and
of
of oceanic
followed
eagerly
Islands
further
Forbes
E.
poor
I coloured
Aru
much
go
connection
former
since
to
the
left it uncoloured.
got frightenedand
are
IO9
not
now
fix
or
lection
by giving a large colI get
being
on
very
very
slow
slowly,
worker.
IIO
THE
I have
publish under
whole
I
what
and
honour
and
for
of all
success
that
will do
the death.
Pray
to
believe
me,
on
dear
my
in the
will have
pelago
Archi-
infinitely
good
cordial
theories-
all your
subjectI
which
Islands, on
of
cause
and
sincere
sir,yours
three-
out
you
America
myjvery
Oceanic
succeed, except
remain
grand Malay
courage
have
you
deal
the
"
zeal and
your
Science;
battle
wonderful
parts of South
richest
the
wishes
good
What
three
been
now
to
expect
you
I shall
suppose
Hybridism
interestingareas
and
Natural
that
see
more.
years
and
admire
to
not
I have
years.
chapter on
one
astonished
am
seen,
on
I do
; but
of
couple
months
four
or
half written
got about
[1858-
BOOK.
UNFINISHED
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
W.
to
Fox.
D.
Feb.
...
hard.
working
am
It will
be
in the
interested
very
big, and
way
facts
overwhelmed
Crcesus
to
make
go
to
my
at
press
hard
very
with
book
for
soonest
C. Darwin
become
am
riches
my
as
to
in
can.
years.
reading
am
to
seems
me,
much
not
the way
admired
I
was
you
up
with
about
book,* which,
his
is
not
J. D. Hooker.
struck
stuck
mean
shall
Feb. 23rd
...
like
am
facts,and
too-
deeply
most
groups.
ever
couple of
[1858].
book, perhaps
my
fall into
perfect
as
at
8th
wonderfully
the
clever
deduction
with
much
and
[1858].
and
induction.
as
sophistry,
original,and
it
with
astounding knowledge.
I
saw
admired
that you
*
'
The
Mrs.
History of
Farrer's
'Questa tomba'
Civilisation.'
of
1858.]
HORSES.
STRIPED
thoroughly; there
Beethoven
is
II]
something grand
in her sweet
tones.
make
out
was
she
half-mad
am
to drive bee's-cells
the
on
from
simple steps
some
subject to try
all the
which
to
wondrous
result.*
angles may
I
; for
head
of my
out
this note
partlywritten
I have
Farewell.
very
glad
to
be
and
appears
to
Forgive
your
Mrs.
see
Hooker
how
Friday ;
on
well
looks.
intolerable
affectionate
but
friend,
C. Darwin..
C. Danvin
to W.
D. Fox.
Down,
My
which
on
bars
rarelytransverse
front
of the
found
any
ass.
breed
of
of them
small
rather
horses
dun
often
tint than
the
rarely a
Delamere
ponies in
(by dun
have
in
or
yet got
not
quiteheavy
stripesin
*
He
much
case
of
the
spinalband
of the
rest
be
a.
most
faint transverse
very
ponies ?
chestnut
of
cream
sometimes
horses
have
; have.-
ponies, or
So
mixed
useful
to
have
with
chestnuts,but
this
the under-side
Mouse-coloured
Any
or
body
spinalstripein chestnut,race
cart-horse.
would
that is
correspondenceon
Cambridge.
had
Miller of
horses
give
real colour
mean
have
forest
these
spinal stripe?
horses, often
will
and
open,
legs,generallyon
eyes
quitethoroughbred
has, I believe,some
any
your
mer
have.
more
an
little about
out
the
on
legs, still
like
shoulder-stripe
Is there
darker
and
point for
one
interested,and which
colours
of various
different
stripeof
much
beyond keeping
I find horses
observe
to
you
I know
habit
I want
"
extremely
am
trouble
no
you
Fox,
DEAR
me.
subjectwith
horsey
of such
There
is
a.
THE
112
in the
parallelcase
crossed
legs of
curious
most
some
UNFINISHED
of
do
I have
the
if occasion
help me
latelyvery
bad
turns
dear
Fox, I
up.
the
work
trust
large mass
parallel
I stispect
has
I
Tuesday
So
been
for
go
everlasting. Farewell.
is
are
you
of
health
My
on
various
horse.
primeval
in
bars.
wing
of the
colour
fortnight's
hydropathy. My
My
also
overwork, and
from
collected
stripes appearing
pigeons about
lighton
I have
and
donkey,
of
animals.
equine
the
cases
[1858.
BOOK.
well.
Farewell,
C. Darwin.
C. Darzvin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Moor
I have
...
rejoicedby
justhad
that
I believed
that
icebergs must
from
have
to
lava-beds
upheaved
ask, and
astounded
H.
now
him,
viz.
stranded
would
be
says
large
and
inferred
not
feet
50
that
above
they
had
; and
write
boulders
(and
the
level
of the
Hartung
to
not
been
brought
and
some
that he
so
ballast.
as
had
polished)of
some
sea,
pected
ex-
between
embedded,
some
me)
Azores,
that
embedded
Lyell to
to
my
mica-schist,
quartz, sandstone, "c,
40
there
detected
I got
; and
(orhe
him
to
heart
of my
cockles
I said
character
been
[April26th, 1858].
Farnham
innermost
Lyell.
the
erratic boulders
the
the
letter from
Park,
had
Is this
beautiful ?
The
has done
water-cure
to boast
of
me
good, but
some
[am] nothing
to-day,so good-bye.
My
dear
friend,yours,
C, D.
C. Darwin
to
Moor
My
DEAR
hydropathy,as
LYELL,
my
"
stomach
have
had
C.
Lyell.
here
got, from
for
[1858].
fortnight's
1858.]
horrid
FLOATING
extremely
am
It is
splendid.
ought
of the
all the
of the
grand
to have
plants and
then
have
of
ago
that he
of distribution
views
had
helps
letter from
note
has
set
I have
; and
the whole
will write
no
novels.
to
round
come
modification
of
of the
large part
the whole
lighton
the
modification
of
little
fidence
con-
with
some
year
ago,
hear
read
kindly
demurred
delightedto
gravelyto
week
two
or
stronglyto
pretty
my
making
written
for
my
much, walk
many
of
endure.
Farewell,with
then
he
thus
for
out
But
eat
is to
very
think
about
read
kind
But
again.
much, and
thanks, and
our
Hartung's note
mind
object here
heat
long a subjectfor
because
in my
much,
what
me
it is too
only
subject afloat
more,
nothing,bathe
to
and
he
as
temperate plantscan
a
was
Thompson,
much,
me
with
speak
to
though
inclined
was
for I have
me,
in different parts
flood of
general conclusion,I
shores
subject,collecting
briefly
land, over
combined
I venture
chapter,and
my
southern
migration and
and
sea
if
subject of distribution,
on
are
glaciers.
versus
and
glacialaction
the
discussed
species. Indeed,
erratic boulders
floatingice
the
mind, it throws
my
The
for sending
you
at
animals, in
To
world.
the
obligedto
to
eminently interesting
evidence
geological
world, and
113
the northern
long chapter on
very
changing)I
of
case
compared
It is
islands.
written
over
much
letter.
Hartung's interesting
me
He
state.
ICE.
much
brance
remem-
Lady Lyell.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
" Darwin
to
Mrs.
Moor
The
you,
weather
I strolled
VOL.
11.
is quite delicious.
a
littlebeyond the
Darwin.
glade for an
hour and
I
half,
UNFINISHED
THE
114
enjoyed
and
Scotch
firs, the
their
white
larches,
asleep
woodpeckers
laughing,
scene
the
ever
as
beasts
summing
Justice's
read
of
bit
flat.
and
matters,
"
Lady."
My
Hungarian
he
says,
eloquent,
but
for
Craik
Miss
on
every
cavalry,
weak,
does
[he
is]
with
no
not
subject.
sincere
patriot,
determination
about
of
money
men
say,
have
we
like
also
at
the
Paris,
pardoned
like
to
seem
decidedly
attache
a
now
then
clerical,
her
formerly
and
and
though
much,
very
Austrian
He
makes
she
Chief
the
very
ignorant
"
gentleman,
certain
is
lady
is
exile,
Kossuth,
most
but
and
clever
character.
.
Bernard
Simon
April
Orsini's
1858
as
attempt
was
an
on
tried
to
accessory
the
life
in
of
the
of
Emperor
diet
"
was
not
the
of
drawing-
guilty,
but
any
virtuous,
thing,
author
differ
health.
broken
with
of
thorough
the
in
then
and
like
and
battles,
some
of
feminine,
is
sort
the
for
much
not
that
Bernard
thought
some
rural
the
read
and
fast
singing
how
in
sat
the
fell
and
penny
with
and
trees,
one
went
which
all
feminine,
say
then
and
novel,
and
philanthropical,
care
birds
pleasant
as
not
of
the
up
was
last
At
grand
from
green
chorus
formed.
and
up,
my
did
been
eight,
after
till
room
had
birds
or
it
and
and
saw,
with
the
birches,
old
view.
running
squirrels
and
me,
the
distant
pretty
awoke
and
grass,
of
of
fringe
excessively
an
the
catkins
the
and
stems,
on
around
of
of
dark-green
yet
"
brown
made
fresh
the
myself
[1858.
BOOK.
French.
guilty."
The
ver-
II
CHAPTER
THE
WRITING
OF
JUNE
letters
[The
sufficient
Mr.
given
title,On
the
TO
but
need
referred
"
Messrs.
on
Means
My
'
Dr.
given
Tendency
So
the sketch
Asa
at
p.
of
Gray,
dated
120.
The
is
case
53)
A.
of
the
Linnean
as
Wallace," of which
form
Species to
Varieties
and
the
depart indefinitely
to
the
Varieties
Natural
Species by
September
be
public,as
5,
of
tracts
(1)Ex-
letter addressed
which
and
1857,
"communicated"
was
paper
Mr. Wallace's
did
set
Lyell,to
to
consisted
paper
1844; (2)part of
Mr.
and
Sir
to
Joseph Hooker,
of the
account
is
the
in
circumstances
wrote
obtain
Mr.
was
soon
:
"
appreciate the
forth,that he proposed, in
publishedas
he
Essay, they
Darwin
highlyapproved,provided
the
letter,bore
given.
highly
Charles
Essay
iii.p.
of the
father's contribution
therein
views
first
explanation.
of Selection.'
Referringto
"
of
publishedin
and
words
in the
was
C. Darwin
the
few
to
and
Perpetuationof
the
from
to
On
859.
of Varieties
Tendency
OriginalType,'
of
SPECIES.
NOVEMBER
OF
in the
Essay,
the
'
'ORIGIN
THE
8, 1858,
clearness,and
Wallace's
from
IV.
Wallace's
as
value
a
consent
did not
stronglyinclined
to
do
the
letter to
Sir
allow the
to
possible. Of
Mr. Darwin
of
this
step we
withhold
from
(in favour
I
of
Il6
THE
Mr.
Wallace),the
the
same
thought
present
of
proper
of
course,
claims
relative
his
before
as
permission
we
priorityof
to
interests of science
himself
of
both
what
in
use
to
we
adopting
Linnean
our
Society,we
solelyconsideringthe
not
are
had
us
had
we
make
to
the
to
of
on
representing this
"c. ; and
memoir,
[1858..
written
stated,one
On
years.
that
himself
of which
presenting it
him
SPECIES.'
OF
had
he
contents
us
gave
explainedto
have
the
for many
privy to
Darwin, he
Mr.
which
which,
1844, and
in
been
us
memoir
and
subject,
perused
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
WRITING
friend,but the
his
and
generally."]
LETTERS.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Down,
MY
me
Lyell,
DEAR
read
to
interested
pleasehim
would
me
to
and,
much,
me
vengeance
as
asked
abstract
and
me
very
the
to
me
You
the
now
MS.,
It
stand
of
Natural
'
which
had
he
never
MS.
my
made
as
this,when
existence.
have
seems
with
true
said
views
this
to-day sent
come
; if Wallace
not
had
heads
does
better
of my
not
say
amount
have
strugglefor
has
it to you..
brieflymy
his terms
return
He
words
which
him, I knew
to
him.
1842, he could
Even
offer to send
it may
in
out
Please
chapters.
he wishes
Your
[June 1858].
recommended
you
to forward
strikingcoincidence
more
sketch written
short
I told
8th
'Annals,'*
be forestalled.
'
ago
writing
me
reading.
so
in the
was
so
that I should
"
or
year
Wallace
by
paper
you,
Some
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Annals
to, will be
and
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my
book,
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if it will
MANUSCRIPT.
value, will
any
what
you
the
all
as
theory.
sketch,that
of Wallace's
will approve
you
II7
be deteriorated
not
applicationof
in the
consists
hope
tell him
have
ever
the labour
I
WALLACE'S
MR.
I may
say.
Lyell,yours
dear
My
truly,
most
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
My
as
are, in
you
give me
as
honour.
Hooker
most
I should
be
general
views
persuade myself
about
had
intended
to
Wallace
has
because
far
would
other
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not
hands
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sent
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say,
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advice
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to
of
honourably,
so
in
behaved
me
Wallace.
of his doctrine
book, than
sent
to
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outline
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permitted
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; but
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read
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general conclusions.
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to
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me
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prove
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not
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in
trouble
affair ; but
sketch
ago.
several
on
and
truly say
to
years
which
correspondence
sorry
sketch, copied
dozen
sketch,of
short
I have
in Wallace's
nothing
some
Down,
opinion, you
fuller in my
much
very
did, for
man
and
is
There
am
deliberate
ever
judgment
"
Lyell.
merely personalan
so
your
service
out
LYELL,
DEAR
C.
to
be
long
of
my
led to my
IlS
THE
views
WRITING
from
animals.
show
him
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paltry.
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Hooker
it had
be
miserably written,
banish
time
musing
My
the
with, but
be for your
this and
send
for then
me,
dear
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friend,forgiveme.
trouble
never
LYELL,
DEAR
as
Wallace
abstract
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me
strong
or
you
Hooker
it fair to
that
should
with
out
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to
the
"You
views
take
subjectagain.
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Wallace
be thus
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till you
to
"
induced
is in
for
did
26th
adding
[June 1858].
P.S. to make
the
you
The
to
I cannot
received
publish
all
which
from
thus
I should
on
priorityof
sure
prevent
take
privatelyknowing
hard
seems
lose my
feel at
communication.
ideas, and
my
It
my
publishing an
having freely,
though
my
advantage
field.
compelled to
intend
not
of
advantage
communicated
that
Darwin.
possibleagainst myself.
say,
forestalling
you
being
for
may
truly,
most
on
Forgive me
"
as
might
of your
unasked,
letter
trumpery letter,
Down,
case
the
by trumpery feelings.
C. Darwin
the
worn
am
C.
My
answer
This
that
is
Yours
I will
advice.
your
friends.
and
subject;
you
I shall have
it now,
write
have
letter.
you
kindest
and
whole
should
and
should
for your
trouble
base
be
not
But
good
influenced
and
letter to Asa
of my
would
objectto
best
two
domestic
been
to
[1858..
for
done
impression, and
obliged I
forwarded
has
now
it not
you
SPECIES.'
OF
copy
not
affair to
much
of my
opinion
first
my
would
to
publish
trumpery
the way,
By
I had
to
on
tell how
cannot
is
that
was
acted
certainly
Wallace
send
tell whether
cannot
'ORIGIN
THE
artificial selection
what
I would
Gray, to
to
OF
that
me
many
that
years'
1858.]
justiceof
I at
"LINNEAN"
THE
the
First
case.
II9
impressions are
it would
thought
first
PAPER.
be
generallyright,and
dishonourable
in
to
now
me
publish.
Yours
truly,
most
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I have
"
Chancellor
Lord
would
and
now
appeal
to
J. D. Hooker,
make
to
you
first-rate
a
as
Lord
Chancellor.
C. Darzvin
Down,
but
subject,
the
on
received
I have
....
with
acted
have
from
easilyget
can
will.
soon
But
kindness, and
more
expected
letters.
your
both,
you
has
so
that
see
as
now
have
you
than
Lyell,even
kind
most
I could
are.
you
it is too
Gray copied,but
letter to Asa
my
can
think
I cannot
short.
God
....
bless you.
You
shall
hear
soon,
as
soon
as
think.
can
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darzvin
to
J. D. Hooker.
Tuesday night[June 29, 1858].
My
the
want
you
letter to
of
means
that
the
at
papers
Gray, which
change, and
So
"
after the
soon
Abstract
sense
of
"
"
is
extract
not
I dare
used
in
sense
on
in
this
for
late.
all is too
also it occurs
father's
abstract
reasons
Journal/where
child.
"
touch
the
see
of my
imperfectly only
most
say
and
letter,
your
and
quite prostrated,
am
Wallace, and
death,from
here
gives
does
just read
once.
I send
speciesdo change.
scarlet
Asa
I have
"
nothing,but
do
can
HOOKER,
DEAR
paper
believing
I
in the
the
are
the
'
hardly
Linnean
sources
described,
of my
120
THE
care
about
time
WRITING
it.
sketch
of
to
The
not
sketch
I will do
no
sacrifice so
much
kind.
I send
most
by
see
may
own
your
bear
reallycannot
time.
It is miserable
what
similar, but
to
in
me
it is.
shorter
and
accurate
more
Journal.'
God
anything.
write
can
much
will show
Linnean
'
you
it.
[1858.
priority.
make
for the
to
generous,
read
waste
table of contents
I would
did
you
all about
at
care
Do
it.
at
It is most
SPECIES.'
OF
generous
1844 solelythat
handwriting that
look
too
are
you
kindness.
and
my
But
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
bless you,
this
I send
more.
by
kind
dear
my
servant
my
friend.
Kew.
to
Yours,
C.
[The followingletter
is that
alreadyreferred
in the
published
Darwin.
to
forming
as
Linnean
Society's
Journal/ 1858]:"
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray,
Sept.*5th [1857].
Down,
My
Gray,
DEAR
"
forgetthe
in my
former
but
letter,
I dare
would
utterlydespise me
when
arrived
honest
at, which
to do
man
seeing how
in
much
Permit
letters (not of
The
the
extracts
cate
to
you,
date
'
to
Hooker
had
to
is
undated
given as October
Journal/ The
printed from a duplicopy
in
my
father's
views
you
I had
bound
was
as
an
strange mortal,
that, before
shown
thought
tell you
Linnean
were
been
I used
quiteextraordinarykindness, if
your
meant
thought
have
should
feelingof respect
warmest
in
owe
to
me
with
what
I told you
because
so.
this I had
saying
you.
I did
I said that
say
which
words
exact
you
; and
"
This
months
was
I had
these
which
ago, I think
of your
the
be
indeed
he had
to Asa
responded
cor-
me
gave
I should
sent
ever
several
me
on
possession,
to
feeling
written,
Gray
October
or
1857."
1858.]
ungratefulif
not
the
least
you
might
think
not
give
told me,
will do
think
You
I
good.
will do
can
half-spoiledHooker
in my
oldest
much
too
I agree
in
seeing the
the
to
respect
of my
of forms
word
every
in
in favour
an
when
need
not
with
trulyfor
most
you
to
one
With
pollen-masses
But
talk
I believe
I will
the
in
in
always
pect
ex-
enough
and
enclose
makes
seed
and
other
I have
and
her
by
birds
to
"
the
climb
As
my
on
you
immense
an
ever
to
kept
its
so
notions
on
I think
general
facts
in
to
in
me
to
think,
you
reading)
by
means
that
culty
diffi-
interested
trouble
the
with
secure
This
advantage
you
the
producing
seem
briefly,what
save
and
tree
me
pollen
woodpecker,
the
"
to
me
adaptation
of
is futile.
or
species. Why
facts which
organic beings
as
arguments
the
habit
(copied,so
doctrine.
Lamarckian
hear,
almost
as
my
mistletoe, with
the
tongue,
it is
of
far
as
against
those
surmounted.
as
to
I go
The
are
of climate
subject,and
you
think
last letter.
your
"
briefest abstract
Nature
But
of
spirit
which
to
asclepias
tail,beak
To
to
that
wonder
frightfulrange.
adaptationsto
write
strong feeling
such
see
fall rapidlyaway,
by insects,and
in the
the kind
orthodox
longest scientifically
such
already corruptedand
difficulties
extent
notions
and
enormous
insects.
Naturalists
ten
any
contempt.
it,and
grave
considered.
carried
old friend
dear
my
than
have
Now
be received
to
saw
assistance.
or
of this.
I thank
any
"
friends,
you
views
my
!!
harm
more
that you
see
(God
views
most
me
notice
more
no
tending,
was
hope conscientiously),
and
attacked
"
worth
me
feel in
not
foolish in my
and
of you,
heard
I did
whither
knew
wild
so
example
one
Falconer,he
and
me
But
feeling.
you
121
all I have
and
slowly enough,
at
would
you
when
that
sure
knows, arrived
To
this
GRAY.
DR.
letters to me,
your
stronglyenhanced
had
that
TO
LETTER
THE
which
species have
the
affinities,
geo-
122
THE
WRITING
graphical
distribution
Abstract,you
occupying
one
doctrine
'
; the
then
immensely
when
of
I should
have
to
despised by naturalists,and
chance
of
I
opinions
views
my
remainder
of the
and
Even
from
breeders
can
eye.
Selection
act
only the
in
has
been
selection
from
of selection.
selection
been
am
the
animals
to
the
in
its parent.
each
that
this may
Man,
by
adapts livingbeings
external
kind
of
of
child
his wants
of
scious
uncon-
of
in
in his particular
man
call the
nursery-men
from
their
type, is
and
making
or
kind
domestic
our
by
occasional
cation
of modifi-
Selection
slight or
very
is not
"
most
(withoutany thought
conditions,
of
for
even
the
in
in late times.
this power
to
Europe
accumulation
generation the
in
intentional
agent
results.
uneducated
an
do.
can
race
depart
main
by
also
"roguing,"as
convinced
quality,
own
followed
been
indisputablyshown
been
variations,caused
fact that
the
by Man,
and
occasionally,
ancient
most
The
the
their
at
it has
have
useful
But, however
only by
large
with
But
which
destroyingof varieties,
acts
"
desired
any
methodicallyfollowed
the individual
most
offspring)
has
any
whose
on
Selection
inappreciableto
must
circumstances.
races.
with
astonished
century.
There
has
perhaps
connection
of
principle
and
been
times.
preservationof
them
alone
discussion
degree methodically,been
ancient
their
them,
differences
on
last half
some
work
those
by
a
of individuals
have
They
of the
author
greatly injure
direct
no
the
what
pickingout
breeding
has
mention
to
letter.]
I. It is wonderful
that is the
follows
[Here
varying,"which
genera
would
received
being
value.
from
quote
this
will,
might easilywork
he
them,
my
You
like the
one,
to
paragraph
not
you
[1858.
regard
book.
my
I ask
is,if any
hear
In
trust, each
on
chapters in
reason
to
SPECIES.'
OF
organic beings.
it paltryin me,
Vestiges/were
in, and
of
two
or
'ORIGIN
THE
take
must
perhaps,think
my
OF
greater
the
mere
absolutelysimilar
to
accumulating variations,,
he
may
be said
to
make
1858.]
the
wool
of
TO
LETTER
THE
for
sheep good
one
GRAY.
DR.
-%
12
carpets, and
another
for
cloth,"c.
II.
there
Now, suppose
external
mere
who
"
selectingfor
he
end
one
might
"
of
millions
in all parts
variations,occasionally
shown
that
main
and
in
no
but
one
shows
what
us
Glacial
think
of the
same
species of
have
We
have
been
this
during
be
can
is the
the whole
must
of
millions
on
the
; there
existed
millions
period,
time
which
of
;.
taken
have
fullyappreciate this
have
least
at
it
unlimited
almost
period, during
shells
slight
existence
changes
practicalgeologistcan
will
taking place.
are
of
on
go
some
think
conditions
not
geology
nature,
place,and
child
the
of
cause
in the
change
should
have
we
and
internal
generations,who
In nature
effect !
not
who
capricious
during
judge by
not
the whole
study
could
was
never
did
being,who
but
appearance,
organisation
say what
was
generations.
III. I think
at
power
which
it
work,
selects
The
elder
strongly
written
few
the
centuries
not
it hard
hold
at
such
bear
shortly
annually born
which
IV.
change
few years,
often
must
of every
or
part of its life,
determine
their
few
kind.
which
most
found
have
increase
that the
at
or
of the earth
species. I
propagate
not
generation. Only
to
written
have
they
every
one
in mind
live
difference
trifling
and
of any
during some
recurrent
can
Lyell,have
even
book),
organic being.
the progeny
constantlyto
that
that,in
rate
thousands
or
singlespeciesis checked
some
life ; but
unerring
an
title of my
of each
good
Reflect
a
(the
Herbert, and
struggle for
stronglyenough.
would
the
Candolle,W.
elephant)breeds
a
Selection
exclusivelyfor
is such
that there
shown
Natural
or
De
on
be
can
shall
during
of
those
What
survive
perish!
Now
take
the
slightly
; not
but
what
case
to
of
cause
I believe
country
some
most
undergoing
of its inhabitants
beings vary
at
to
some
vary
all times
THE
124
OF
for selection
enough
be
WRITING
to
act
exterminated, and
mutual
action
be
to
the
to
will be
food
life of
each
by struggling with
life,to have
cannot
doubt
generations individuals
of
various
at
slightvariation
will have
of
either
coexist
parent
form.
with,
be
to
come
Most
Natura
The
slowness
change
at
imperfectionsof
One
think,
time
one
of
species.
by
very
in
square
belonging
on
with
We
the
we
turf
of
see
(I
families
to
higher animals,
that
it has
of
slight
way
been
The
called
the
important part
in the
We
habits
going
under-
extreme
principle
origin
occupied
generic forms
twenty
species
plants and
insects,
to
can
we
ous.
obvi-
in the
life if
more
counted
have
few
"
others.
answer
maybe
species.
whose
this
on
most
very
others.
islet,belonging
as
eighteen genera),or
to
and
know
little uniform
any
genera
yard
or
score
one
of the
only
same
forms
in any
are
every
some
answers
divergence,plays,I believe,an
diverse
to
its
answered.
satisfactorily
change, and
of
The
will
formed
woodpecker,
to
occur
be
which
principle,
other
tion,
this varia-
the
adapted
geologicalrecords
our
; such
exterminate
which
answer
of the
any
some
will
"
facit saltum
non
of
can,
with
selection,accumulating those
difficulties will
Multiform
VI.
thus
it,during any
to
theory.
"
commonly
variations
seeds
the accumulative
by
like
natural
escape
millions
born
variety thus
the
; and
more
mere
or
surviving,propagating
organic being
may
than
eggs
during
be
slowly increased
or
An
contingencies;
V.
be
selection
natural
mistletoe,
of
chance
I believe
beings, to
that
the
to
some
will
beingshave
ways
their
species will
profitableto
again will
action
useful
times
better
which
the
being
other
of
danger
exposed
inhabitants,which
various
Considering the infinitely
obtain
[1858.
of its inhabitants
remainder
different set of
SPECIES.'
OF
Some
on.
the
important
more
climate.
to
of
'ORIGIN
THE
almost
as
many
this
understand
best
experimentallyshown
understand.
that
plot
1858.]
with
grasses, than
speciesof
GRAY.
DR.
will
of land
TO
LETTER
THE
two
if
with
cropped
three
or
125
species.
Now
strivingits
species after
any
or
sub-species,
varieties,or
think, from
in numbers.
increase
to
offspringof
the
with
utmost
foregoing facts,that
the
each
and
many
diverse
as
Each
possible.
in
places
And
to
it will be
it
into
follows, I
varying offspringof
seize
of
economy
species when
place of,and
said
broken
succeed)to
the
variety or
new
the
will
So
it has
species.
true
every
be
several
on
as
nature
formed
as
will
exterminate
generallytake
the
fitted parent.
cation
This, I believe,to be the originof the classifi-
These
always
from
less
trunk
"
genera
and
This
sketch
is most
make
rubbish
all times.
at
sub-branch
and
like
tree
flourishing
twigs destroying the
lost branches
and
imperfect ;
it better.
Your
Without
blanks.
wide
organic beings
rudelyrepresenting
families.
extinct
cannot
; the
the dead
vigorous
all
branch
to
seem
common
of
arrangement
or
so
in
imagination
short
so
will
space
many
all
appear
after reflection.
so
appear
fill up
must
it
reflection,
some
perhaps it will
but
C. D.
P.S.
power
production of
in the
element
only
I look
selection,which
of natural
important
touches
little abstract
This
"
at
new
the
accumulative
by
as
forms.
The
laws
can
come,
as
you
may
discuss
well
under
several
believe,only to
very
partialand imperfectconclusions.
[The jointpaper
the
Lyell and
made
Society on
Linnean
Sir
few
J. D.
and
of Mr. Wallace
the
Hooker
evening
father
July
present, and
were
with
remarks, chiefly
of
my
view of
1st.
was
read
at
Sir Charles
both, I believe,
impressingon
those
126
WRITING
THE
present the
what
to
of
they
interest
had
breath
Sir
for the
After
who
in the
the
to
to
me
talked
in
against
out
authors
their
and
way
mine,
the
Fellows,
the
doctrine.
less
first
and
the
It has
been.
tell you
should
shall
curious
be
I suppose
and
I
can
to
not,
only
on
can
easilyprepare
hardly
see
how
note
can
cannot
be very
be
would
short.
frightened we
You
must
let
I do
am
not
is to
me
once
and
that
priority. I
in
the
be
least
printed;
quite indifferent,
Lyell'shands.
whole
work, but
scientific for
be
me
kindness
of
on
gone
it shames
of my
made
quinsy,
fever,but, thank
point
and
and
all had
move.
fortnight.Thank
Gray
; but
abstract
giving facts,which
abstract
A.
house
can
that
mere
your
she
generous
proofs.
letter to
an
it
of the
how
truth
in
and
happy
throat
miserable
But
your
as
scarlet
I feel your
the
my
soon
Society.
time
see
out
tellingme
occasion.
lost
sent
imagine
most
without
mere
note,
whether
understand
deeply
have
the
may
been
how
this
Lyell'son
you
You
as
more
ulcerated
ill with
the Linnean
prosperouslyat
again
H.,
remove
now
for your
have
we
illwith
recovering.
much
you
is
become
are
that
became
nurse
second
is
God,
We
"
shall
child, and
The
have
HOOKER,
now
panic-struck,
every
the
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
DEAR
with
theme."]
C. Darwin
My
novel
bated
We
The
with
small
overawed
"
before
lists,
over
too
the
enter
perhaps
flown
semblance
no
subject was
affair,rather
have
otherwise
would
writes
school
Lyell'sapproval,and
however,
meeting it was
the
his lieutenant
as
old
[1858.
careful consideration
most
Hooker
Joseph
SPECIES.'
OF
was,
intense, but
was
ominous
armouring.
There
heard.
excited
too
'ORIGIN
THE
necessityof givingthe
discussion.
and
OF
Journal,
impossible. Indeed, a
Could
you
give
me
any
1858.]
idea
PROPOSED
THE
how
of the
pages
many
BOOK.
\2J
could
Journal
probably
be
spared
me
after
Directly
cloth
to
If the
measure.
my
I would
home,
return
my
Referees
begin
If
address?
MS.
remarks,
And
see
till
go
I
hope
should
chance
of
which
for
delicate
to
us
August
the
to
jotted
make
to
if you
invitation
enjoy
leave
lose
join
you
them.
can
children
our
be
on
abroad.
soon
go
should
should
remember
to
; but
more
criticisms
you
to
you
enclosed
^th-ioth,
have
meeting
should
not
as
pamphlet.
infinitelysorry
your
my
abstract,* would
sufficient
our
as
England,
you
be
heartilyfor
you
fancy nothing
too
not
you.
as
no
thank
are
leave
you
on
your
AVe
do
left with
prefer it
my
before
you
interleaved
big
my
time
it any
send
to
respect
it
cut
rejectit
to
were
and
living
mere
lumber.
said
Lastly, you
much
should
my
Will
length
me
you
I
of
look
in
the
quite
exonerate
me
I would
up,
me
some
time
about
certainly
forward
it with
notions
your
if you
of
the
abstract.
Lyell, will
it,as
species
; I
answer
very
and
Botanist
subject :
tell him
important,
being
not
you
how
truly grateful I
interest
at
Geologist
note, sealed
your
Wallace
address, "c.
see
it would
to
the
of my
If you
write
I know
as
own,
this, as
like
send
would
would
you
am
for the
You
the
in
taking
sure
it will
do
fact
any
much
of
the
sort
to
that
of the
reception
immutable,
England
know
must
view
greatest
of
break
interest
down
prejudices.
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
The
Sketch
of 1844.
feel
128
THE
WRITING
OF
'ORIGIN
THE
C. Darwin
Miss
My
perfect,quite
could
a
that
punished
written
; I
half
what
took
your
appendix
We
go
the
courteous.
of the
order
Bentham
it
on
think
You
cannot
Natural
on
Journal,I
beings,
"
on
grand
mistaken
and
had
to him,
priority
had
it not
I
days
to
been
you
satisfied
I had
at
thought
be
to
were
for
assure
than
Society.
Gray
only
an
pity that
? for I
return, and
tell you
before
to
you
the
at
with
abstract,though
abstract
an
you
in
best.
should
thirty
I shall
time
waste
schoolmaster
journey ;
your
come
battle
(aftera
can
can
you
ask
sea-side,
probably
; is it not
see
the
return
work
to
know
to
Down,
do
for you
not
will
for that.
imagine
how
pleased I
all the
all
more
anything of
laws
of
their
as
"
of
am
that
purgative on
can
on
the
the
your
look
magnificentfield
variation,
lines
naturalists
immutability. Whenever
what
changing as certain,
on
am
Asa
my
will set
fishingto
time
no
few
I shall make
my
am
to
and
Wight,
try and
I must
it
paper.
in
here
it
possible
I had
myself
changed
Linnean
mine
tabulatingvarieties
to do
think
not
it very
that
give up
to
have
the
at
Wallace's
from
pages
I fancied
I found
; but
me
to-day forwarded
always thought
forgetit.
letter and
earth
I do
I have
to
seems
place
Isle of
on
care
shall not
to
and
letter to Wallace
pigeon skeletons)I
have
most
own.
to
your
it,and
in
and
not
certainly
I feel
how
letter to Wallace
Lyell'sand
to
not
should
that
Your
"
but
forestalled,
be
soul
enough
and
clear
letter of my
might
J. D. Hooker.
to
possibly be improved,
with
[1858.
Tunbridge Wells,
Wedgwood's, Hartfield,
[July13th, 1858].
Hooker,
dear
SPECIES.'
OF
of
bowels
of
at
species
will be open,
genealogy of
notion
all
"
living
Pray thank
1858.]
truly obligedI
should
the trouble
had
have
in truth ashamed
and
am,
of
SPECIE-.
copying
Yours
that
MS.
It
kind
dear
29
say how
think
ugly
my
pray
to
Farewell, my
in her.
kind
extraordinarily
OF
kind
Hooker
Mrs.
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
WRITING
THE
she
was
friend.
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
had
I have
"
; for I could
ant
I have
and
seen
seen
now
in
rather
help
not
I have
stories,but
fun here
some
defeated
migration from
their mouths
niggers)in
inclined
am
to
think
is secreted
if the
to
Columbine,
think
if you
"
one
Larkspur
The
honey.
true
point of
honey
the
(who
it is
when
to
marauding party,
nest
one
wonderful
of the
another
to
Iwuse, and
are
not
that
at
the
doubting
watching a slave-making
that,
generalisation
corolla,
is
good instance,in
of it,just attend
to
contrast
this little
point.
C. Darwin
to
King'sHead
We
.
Shanklin, which
to
who
not
walk.
cannot
if it
does, our
and
Hooker
told
far
think
half thanked
never
trouble
my
kindness
me
than
more
whatever
to
hope
much
Wight.
July 1 8th [1858].
days, and
amusing
more
Isle of
that
to
one,
the
sea
expeditionwill
then
like
on
go
myself,
may
do
H.
but
answer,
otherwise.
I have
am
for ten
We
And
good.
L.
and
seems
LyelL
Hotel,Sandown,
established here
are
C.
conduct
you
what
showed
you
done
was
and
satisfied,
unfair
in
thoughtfair.
but had
lose all priority,
VOL.
II.
you
at the
I do not
about
allowingyou
I
Wallace's
Linnean
think
certainlywas
extraordinary
affair.
and
Society,
that Wallace
and
a
resignedmyself to
Hooker
can
to
do
little annoyed
my
fate.
K
am
THE
130
going
to prepare
do
to
OF
each
is
will,I
this
as
consider
to
so
Your
having
will,of
that
interested
name
work
in my
importantbearing in leading
prejudice. I look at
almost
glad of Wallace's
subjectwithout
I
am
dear
Lyell,yours
gratefully,
most
Ch.
[The followingletter
letter
on
course,
Hooker's
and
least
the most
the
and
facts
led to this.
My
Linnean
[1858.
reallyimpossible
it is
name
the
way
important,that
very
for
paper
any
certain,have
am
people
in
; but
grounded,
absolutelyimpossible.
as
SPECIES.'
OF
conclusion
appearing
'ORIGIN
THE
longer abstract
the
justiceto
which
be
WRITING
refers
The
paper.
'
the
to
Sir
C. Darwin
the
means
the
prefatory
J. D. Hooker.]
J. D. Hooker.
to
King's Head
proof-sheets of
'
introduction
Darwin.
Hotel,Sandown,
Isle of
Wight.
HOOKER,
DEAR
sheets,which
now
I received
"
I think
return.
introduction
your
cannot
improved.
be
disgusted with
am
I have
begun
Society. My
excuse
I have
made
make
cannot
I have
(but your
may
me)
writing.
not
is that it
only a
few
will
clean
correct
rely on
never
I be
it that you
able
never
improve
not
be
fair
or
worth
was
for
in the
tion.
publica-
style;
but
I
hope moderately intelligible.
the
yet fullyconsidered
shall
I could
not
corrections
proofto
generalconcurrence
nor
would
better
on
decent, but
one
I have
Could
to
it
some
suppose
bad
rewritingall,which
it,without
while, as
my
revise.
send
to
Wallace
remarks
your
is of the
big genera
on
possibleinterest
highest
till I re-read
make
(ShallI ?)
my
remark
MS.
to
me
; but
which
you
is
1858.]
inattention.
lost from
object to
ordered
I have
curious
to
see
plants! !
very glad
by
having
fatal to
my
remarks.
.
for, as
written
not
form, for
as
were
all your
reconsider
Bentham,
Flora
they
no
or
and
I will consider
modified
do
you
important, and
very
value, whether
inherent
notions.
objectionsin
as
me
131
glad
particularly
am
statingyour
my
'ABSTRACT.'
THE
who
man
knows
nothing
of British
I
am
would
aided
say
you
about
Abstract,but
my
I will condense
if it is too
aid in money
have
you
it that
relyon
may
you
what
at
the
to
In how
long.*
utmost.
way^
many
me
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
'
[The
Abstract
letter
set
now
to
work.
beginning to
wrote, "July 20
book
a
book."
paper,
only in
was
take
must
the
ceding
pre-
which he
on
Originof Species,'
In his 'Autobiography' (p. 85) he speaks
write in September, but
in his Diary he
to
Aug.
with
the
late
the form
Recommenced
by
an
the
that
Abstract
Abstract"
autumn
of
Sandown, began
at
12,
series of papers,
or
of the
'
"Sep. 16,
begun
was
mentioned
in fact the
was
of
Species
'
be
Linnean
of
The
publishedas
Society,and
it became
clear
that
ii
it
independentvolume.]
C. Darwin
to
Norfolk
J. D. Hooker.
House, Shanklin,Isle
of
Wight.
Friday[July]30th [1858].
My
Hooker,
DEAR
Sir William
to
excuse
an
requiresno
*
to
That
pay
to
thank
amuse
"
him
Will
you
give
the
myself by writing to
enclosed
; and
you
this
a
scrap
gives m
note, whic
answer.
is to
say, he
would
help
if it should
for the printing,
prove
too
long
for the
Linnea
Society.
K
132
THE
This
WRITING
is
house.
done
H.
or
from
all
our
troubles.
William
has
(who
making
all
out
in the
names
all means,
to the
with
It will
of the
able
be
to
tour.
ease
sea
has
recovered
in Down.
We
longer
folio
not
I have
hope
you
charmed
return
it, and
with
abroad)
tour
capital
so
drive
has
The
.
mad
us
[not] make
been
English
give
them
them
charged
like
and
hero,
by
subordinate
passion. W.
into the
demolished
to
me.
It
begun
and
Farewell, my
give
; but
seems
of
a
Hooker
having
I hated
it will take
try
plan
to
to
variation
on
put in nothing
which
give an
am
abstract
extremely
will have
very
very
pleasant
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
'
was
it.
on
Yours
the
thirty-five
Hooker.
dear
set
to finish my
and
interest,
some
am
conclusion.
abstract
an
my
in
unsatisfactory
I repeat, I
nevertheless,
in earnest
Mrs.
it very
I will
queer
for
I confess
expected ;
me
Lyell
for each
reasons
alone
done, be able
I find
to
improving work.
it is
now
pages
of
and
leisure.
hours
you
and
than
seem
and
amusing
and
unpublishedwork
glad
I
it
give my
to
does
an
in
me
job ;
which
new
are
shall,when
domestication
of
the
very
new
earth
on
I find
under
once
left
greater
MS.
my
of
heartilyobliged to
being
of
grand style.
this ; for I
thought
for
puts
time
my
most
on
just started
Umbelliferae
in
Abstract, and
not
that
[1858.
got
stomach
my
fever
am
why
and
many
pass
work
have
glad we
and
sorts
; it
Latin
so
me
of scarlet
analyticalkeys
but
Compositse
now
we
say
has
very
of information
little scraps
died
now
am
got Bentham,*
have
ever
SPECIES.'
cannot
Nor
good.
OF
14th of August.
the
I
But, alas, I
L. much
children have
'ORIGIN
THE
charming place,and
very
comfortable
on
OF
British Flora.'
1858.]
'ABSTRACT.'
THE
C. Darwin
33
J. D. Hooker.
to
Norfolk
House, Shanklin,
Isle of
Wight.
Hooker,
DEAR
I write
I should
have
read
it to the
the Abstract
labour
than
far
subject;
is
Abstract
will do
just finished
four
MS.
shorten
be
Variation
extremely
cost,
that
say
sorry
length
; it will make
me
much
so
the
single
every
I fear it will
published.
into several
parts
The
thus
Domestication," in forty-
under
would
the
about
book,* whenever
that
to
diffusive.
too
well to divide
and
pages,
be
"
not
tie
shall,before
you
Busk
relief to
to
to
my
very
have
should
having
in
it,
If you
much
; but
concur
with
the sentence.
all interest
spoil
it back.
I shall wish
immense
an
couple of
printing,it will
speakingwith
after
me
less,not
but
and
of
quite done
have
for
\d.
Society,hear
tell
you
it MS.
this MS.
read
What
of
mark
think,more
you
that you
....
of
return
abstract
an
But
note
as
anything have
for
not
string,and
it with
make
I may
I presume
I would
otherwise
by
me
apologetical
the note
best
was
send
to
you
that
length.
in
pages
ask
to
now
big genera,
on
the Abstract
styleof
the
about
think
I should
"
for
do
if all
evening
one
could
be
not
; but
published
together.
What
but
it
to
else you
say
about
frightensme,
for
I fear
good enough.
you
I
was
three
But
astonished
days
ago
I shall
I do
how
Abstract
be
never
about
on
run
pleasesme
able
my
own
highly,
to
make
affairs
later ;
to
my
to
do
proposing
me,
that
so
The
Hooker's
card
here
two
or
was
not
Sir W.
see
return
am
to
tillthe
also
largerbook
come
to
13th,and
most
begun
sorry
in
my
to
1856.
Down
on
wife not
think
the
till
I shall
THE
134
not
see
I had
had
WRITING
for I should
you,
goi
thought of going
hour
to London
C. Darwin
HOOKER,
DEAR
safelytwo
came
leave
to
home
so
soon.
down
running
and
[1858.
for
an
the correction
of
clearly. When
days
I must
meet
Isle of
Wight.
[August1858.]
say
much
am
obliged for
unutterablydifficult
talk
over
few
MS.
the
that
merely to
ago.
I find it
style:
we
House, Shanklin,
I write
"
three
or
J. D. Hooker.
to
Norfolk
My
like
not
SPECIES.'
OF
to Kew.
two
or
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
write
to
the
points on
subject.
You
this
the
and
like
that
on
the actual
If you
the coast
of
then
in
few
; and
in France
and
every
at the
headland
wide
rightin
at
of insects
thirteen
low
found
a
washed
up
the shore
by
speciesof Coleoptera;
the
along;
'fc"
But do you
coast.
*-\_/".OL.
bed
far out
watch
the
not
We
are
places.
from
weather, look
out
blown
the
across
to
One
to
that
noticed
was
noble
prettier,
strong wind
imagination
screw
south
many
the wind
blown
rightangles to
were
how
and
about
then
and
one
clouds, and
I feared
were
blown
one
saw
letter in
headland
eddy
France.
*-AA"-
and
this very
on
bless me,
wrote
is
thistle-seeds
second
coming inland,so
beyond
from
looked
I then
day
minutes
myself,God
said to
not
other
there
the
on
place.
much
so
fine,dry, warm
in
probably (!)see
The
Channel.
differ
this
seen,
ever
charming
are
thinking of
tastes
and
France
will
you
; but
spots
think
we
have
we
other
many
Broadstairs,when
to
go
than
better
suggest your
coast
which
place
island,though
I would
so
sea-side somewhere
the
to
sea-side
Shanklin
of the
coast
going
nicest
we
and
of
speak
loose,I
be
But
you.
they were
then
walked
which
thistles,
day
tide,and
then
and
sea,
such
came
number
brought
that I suppose
for thistle-seed
as
these
you
by
to
life
came
saunter
1858.]
MIGRATION.
AND
CLIMATE
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
nth
Aug.
My
Isle of
in the
me
Gray,
DEAR
to
write to you
should
assistance
which
I have
climate
of
in
whole
you
facts,and
I must
feel
so
point.
may
any
and
read
my
point,he
facts have
the
older,
before the
Glacial
this there
held
judging
be
can
much
when
has
poles,I
believe
epoch)
united, perhaps
fauna
and
climate
then
it
is ; and
now
America
just
as
would
they
drivingfar
became
now
south
shallow
the
are
the
are.
on
that you
to
reflection
iO"
came
livingthings ;
this
period
and
the
of North
regions
as
mainly,
150 nearer
or
of
large scale,
At
Behring Straits
nearlyuniform
now
The
are.
till it became
colder
far
(a little
species were
water, that
temperate
Then
not
higher ;
was
now.
Arctic
separated,as
all
the
little southward)
as
give
I do
age
part of Siberia
gradually
then
be
they
of
views, that
further
land,
the
continuous, were
flora,just
for my
temperature
;
northern
almost
I cannot
Pliocene
plants ranged
possible,considering the
were
the
you
convert.
:
disposition
and
give
in order
that
me
newer,
little doubt
the
being
America,
told
of
changes
he at first demurred
though
him
shells,what
all animals
and
perhaps
or
its present
from
do
not
preparing
am
Society).
foundation
since
made
just mention,
some
MS.,
later
dogmatically,though
I may
has
In
so,
able
invalu-
if I did
I will here
latter
(which
write
I have
new
me
not
were
all the
me,
the
MS.
Linnean
the
that
main
my
for
believe
Hooker
after
migration,and
on
my
on
if it
even
rendered
long
my
abstract
an
work
just reached
asked.
you
the effect
abstract
an
have
you
discussed
and
; and
[1858].
pleasureto
great
ungratefuldog,
which
has
July 27th
real and
notions
my
most
of
note
It is
Wight.
about
be
anything
Your
"
35
parts of
what
Europe
and
migration is concerned,
on
middle
the
or
Glacial
even
period,
southern
136
THE
OF
WRITING
their summits
fauna.
This
add, I had
Some
the
of
the
facts have
made
which
look
at
the
since the
old
and
consideration
evidence
colder
of
coast
believe
that
But
is
few
southern
forms
(Heights
with
penetrated
of Borneo
Cape forms.)
and
the
European
temperature
Hence
mountains.
Ceylon, summit
these
very
to
of
intruders
liable
adapt
; hence
to
them
surrounded
improved
to
the
new
or
been
and
east
bold
to
as
when
epoch,and
into the
heart
direction
all
of the
some
ward.
north-
forms, Abyssinia
ditto
Tierra
intruders
would
forms
with
new
by
Fuego
As
crawl
of Brazil.
forms
natural
which
the
up
Nilgherries,
on
Mountains
modified
del
Himalaya.
on
high
facilitated ;
immensely
plantsof
with
forms
was
nearlycontinuous
European
Java, Organ
being
be
the
the
so
reverse
was
temperate
world
erratic boulder
am
Australian
of the
character
of Cordilleras
summits
the
have
geological
hemisphere; and
there
Wherever
in
with
of
considerablydistressed \
the southern
reached
even
been
important
more
both
on
part
between
the whole
slowlytravelled
temperate forms
Tropics,and
me
become
northern
body
Now
have
America
having
the Glacial
height of
Tropicalproductionsmtist
several
by
America.
North
as
period
modification-
ago, from
years
I may
between
was
my
comes
epoch
on
flora and
communication
now
Glacial
the
see
that
in the
considerable
that,many
the
Europe,
nearly free
South
at
now
published.
to
period,when
phenomena carefullyobserved
west
he
species of
of
those
was
during
; I inferred
before
of the
Pliocene
; there
that
continuous
According
worlds.
new
once
vaguely suspect
me
many
there
world
we
tains
moun-
warmth.
closelyrepresent
modified
; and
the
the
up
snow
four years
out
slightlygreater
the
Forbes's
[1858.
the warmth
productions; as
of
of
remnants
written
doctrines,I
of
denuded
is E.
glacialand
Arctic
SPECIES.'
OF
productionsslowlycrawled
they became
as
'ORIGIN
THE
would
But
be
selection,
they
had
to
1858.]
CLIMATE
; hence
compete
Tropics are
MIGRATION.
AND
of the forms
most
identical,but
not
the
on
of the
mountains
of
forms
representative
37
North
temperate plants.
There
similar
are
All
but
could
Hooker
largelya
Japan
From
have
been
the
as
United
States.
on
I should
This
Glacial
like to
what
I believe
have
what
to
like to hear
There
is
You
tell how
much
good.
me
I
...
the
have
it will suffice
migrations
J. D. Hooker.
Oct.
leisure,I should
did
to
clear
(and
an
slurringover
me
idle.
enjoyed
If
Harvey
kindly to
very
working
am
grows
yet take
what
on
and
you
later main
Hooker, yourself,and
and
act
do
you
6th, 1858.
the
and
much
very
children.
doing?
are
comprehensive text.
remember
never
go,
south
make
can
of Mrs.
you
cannot
me
or
news
did
Where
did
have
no
is their character.
[Down,]
If you
I believe
would
whether
become
and
China
of
you
within
north
know
the
been
C. Darwin
...
has
sea,
epoch
be ;
to
of China
migration
Japan, and
changes of temperature.
and
it may
shallow
land
main
the
from
rash
miserablyexpressed,but perhaps
letter is
show
to
and
the
beyond anything
productions.
but
first,
correspondinglatitude
Alpine collections
any
all at
mammalia
after
marine
and
you,
it at
then
and
in
joined to
Japan,
to
as
stomach
not
period ;
remote
rash
so
convert.
to
of facts
rash
very
not
sure
am
classes
most
inordinate
is still with
steadilyat
You
or
four months
cannot
pray
Abstract, but
my
make
I cannot
difficulties),
three
you,
It
him.
giving brieflymore
never
your
imagine
so
fact
my
do
view
two, and
or
it shorter.
slow
what
make
it
It will
work, though
service
you
have
138
THE
done
me
WRITING
in
thought
OF
making
I had
much, by making
several
; for
has
the
been
reading with
be) capitalmemoir
to
Chronicle.
much
of
very
importance
of the
(as I
believe
interest your
R.
Brown
in
to
I have
...
keep
to send
eight copies
sent
the others
you
not
tillyou
Selection,
for
him,
to
me
as
I have.
yet you
I expect
will have
my
to be
What
have
read
cannot
Abstract
Oct.
to
Wallace,
think
not
2th, 1858.
of any
and
one
my
stronglyagainst Natural
too
which
difficulties,
have
have
fullyon
thought
will
so
into
run
of work
you
occurred
never
small
publishedseparately.
splendidlot
by post
for I could
pronounce
to
Gardeners'
to.
any
I pray
the
J. D. Hooker.
Down,
you
C. Darwin
will
though
brains
clarified my
relative
[1858.
elements.
I have
it
clear,it
weigh
me
SPECIES.'
OF
this Abstract
make
me
all
got
'ORIGIN
THE
the
subject
volume, which
in hand.
have
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
Down,
I have
...
you
I
am
not
"to
sorry
interested
without
been
too
pronounce
to
have
by
your
note
Of the
at
you,
in
though
is,that I have
being quizzed by
jointpaper by
I have
I wrote
answer.
the truth
expect oppositionand
to
13th, 1858.
Selection."
stronglyagainstNatural
bothered
reflection. But
myself,partly from
little vexed
Oct.
even
C. Darwin
my
been
the
so
much
sentence
accustomed
non-naturalist
tions,
rela-
A. R. Wallace.
1858.]
SIR
that you
the moment
J.
the
are
HOOKER.
D.
You
you.
how
minute
even
you,
and
this has
you
had
spoken
often
in
friends,excepting
other
that
naturalists
would
only because
valued
and
the
not
It is
and
he gave
are
not
me
upstarts
in time
coeval
revive
under
extinct
tooth
knocked
dear
ten
knows
become
to
man
having
is
so
of
hours
few
the age
on
Falconer,
with
of
pedigree going
has
He
species.
We
man.
far back
grand
fact of
in the Trias.
up,
Water-cure
My
years
in mine.
am
boast
can
with
quite
am
we
our
any
not
God
; which
evil to
magnificent lecture
large molar
some
sympathy
yesterdayfor
to
than
ungratefulfor
me
accursed
subjectas
in London
that
few
some
on
your
an
I know
work
my
mischief
more
from
effect
no
did
Nor
about
do
think
may
understood
in any
was
do
this is
you
case.
absorbed
I should
forget
never
received
produced
me.
I have
indeed, I thought,
Falconer, who
old
dear
to
All
staggered
39
suspected that
even
you
had
general terms
me
already!
you
it
told
once
ago
MS.
my
to
I have
never
"jam-pot"
that
quite lately,
until
that
whom
[me] that
Believe
assistance
quite correct
are
were
speculations
my
much
from
livingsoul
one
constantlyreceived sympathy.
for
at
and
going
am
Moor
Monday
next
to
Park.
affectionately,
Hooker, yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Nov.
had
....
Abstract
far
more
to
again,for
you
than
I
publication,
and
Hybridism
and
my
vowed
enough
may
to
say
not
about
that
to
am
sure
it ;
but,
I have
the
abstract,which
materials for
mention
may
as
everlasting
my
I have
you
bothered
allude
chapters
take
1858.
on
you
to
its
Instinct
fortnighteach
GeographicalDistribution,
Palaeontology,
THE
140
and
WRITING
small
volume.
I pass
and
weeks,
till April,and
soonest
a
three
me
and
beetles
to
small
father
my
in
'
volume.
in
their
We
"
taken
in the
of
boys,
his
which
he
of the
and
is
father
to
W.,
when
The
of
any
Sir
to
out
with
three
I have
bottle
my
excitement,
them
letters
following
1858),and
he
been
is
son,
my
to W.
was
my
long
I used
son,
married
to
reminded
proved
Mr.
to
to
Fox
illustrate
John Lubbock,
D. Fox.
of old
unknown
to
old
me
very
"
What
Nov.
he
when
he
astounded
rooms
hear
has
was
coffee
caught
the
to
third
my
13th [1858].
College,in
pleasant
drink
Whittlesea
ardour
.
and
days by
crepitans,of immortal
with
Christ's
Gyp, Impey,
and
come
beetles,and
collecting
boiled
at
now
old
My
yours.
when
am
point:]
above
he
them.
the
and
name,
begins
signed by
by
Down,
that
sent
having lately
pleasure of turning
C. Darwin
of
Clytus
silphoides,
notice
written
clearly not
fully shared,
13,
knowledge
collectors
"c,
Down,"
ones.
(November
this
of
for my
uncommon
doing,
now
am
collecting.He
The
young
very
was
beetles
of dead
be
parish
recollection
vivid
in
three
but
make
of Licimis
mysticus,Pa?iagceus 4-pustulatus.
words,
instances,
June
Entomologist's
Weekly Intelligencer,'
at
make
I cannot
his old
revived
done
two
or
one
than
shorter,to be satisfactory,
Abstract
of these
have
and yet
brieflyall difficulties,
over
my
[About
than
give more
never
[1858.
will in bulk
Abstract
my
each
say
I shall not
that
so
then
SPECIES.'
OF
up, I dare
less worked
Affinities,
being
will take
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
the
Mere
hours
with
those
were
daily!
you
boy havingjustbegun
other
day
memory.
caught
Licinus
Brachinus
blood
My
"
prize
1858.]
ENTOMOLOGY.
C. Darwin
141
John Ltibbock.
to
Thursday [before1857].
LUBBOCK,
Dear
remember
having
speak from
to
I read
when
makes
at
simile for
ever
When-
know
you
it.
.
sound
this
is not
"
decayed entomologist?
of the trumpet,
beetles
rare
excessively rash
remembrance.
the
capturingof
bottle,which
it is
though
whether
me
war-horse
the
about
It
"
really
"
drunk
have
in
about
care
you
"
Floreat
"
old
an
magnanimous
almost
seen
tell
can
you
I feel like
this
I send
old
twenty-five-year
meet
we
whether
know
not
chance
for the
beetles, but
never
I do
"
I have
N.B.
So
wine.
glass of
many
not
been
now
again,
"
Floreat
tomologia
En-
full of wine.
Yours,
CD.
to Herbert
C. Darwin
Spencer,
your
"
very
SIR,
DEAR
kind
me
admirable.
largerwork
simply
as
the
on
a
otherwise, in my
improved
on,
advantage.
changes
naturalist,and
and
Your
of
from
not
often
on
been
'
alreadyread
remarks
thought on
the
on
I treat
could
quoted by
has
the
Abstract
the
general point
Music
and
Political,
Essays, Scientific,
1858-74.
*
but
argument
have
article
have
species;
opinion,your
might
sincerelyfor
present preparing an
at
am
you
Your
interest.
so-called
of the
generalargument
to
much
with
of them
several
25th [1858].
Nov.
Down,
also
not
me
of
view,
have
with
had
Herbert
subject
been
great
interested
and
subject,
Speculative/
by
of
me
come
Spencer,
THE
142
WRITING
nearly the
to
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
conclusion
same
with
for years
that all
you
profitby
to
for loose
me
speculation,and
expression has
criticism
your
beg
persistentsubject
with
entirelyagree
I must
style,and
to
curious
biologicalmeaning.
some
on
[1858.
unable
though
you,
Furthermore, by
detail.
in any
SPECIES.'
OF
with
very best
hope
thanks,
Sir,
Yours
trulyobliged,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
Dec.
24th [1858].
your
unsolicited
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
My
is
house
salary and
Your
"
creditable
and
jolly,
room
about
news
divided
Government.
the
to
above, with
room
all
facts
well
I remember
several
in your
that
in the
(but
that
head
which
that
for
I did not
severest
see
very
the fact
the
of
so
many
out, and
exterminated
last satisfied
not
myself
respect
to
large area,
have
subject. It is,
and
therefore
the
will
higher stage
small
ing
exist-
subjected to
forms,
what
may
water,
sea,
be
of perfection
I
more
plain
ex-
called
having
by
the
have
Thus
area.
only fresh
in
conclusion
this
been
other
this
fullyexplain
to
bearing of
anomalies,or
inhabiting now
livingfossils,"
beaten
the
of
than
more
satisfyingothers) on
selection,at
inhabitants
facts
south,and
to
little volume
"
from
arrived,with
arrived,through natural
years,
at
long
speciesinhabiting a
in
for
I have
now
striking.
very
wonderful
many
north
take
it would
I had
your
mainly from
different
is very
but
myself.
been
direction.
reverse
of
none
indeed,
are,
migrationhaving
the
at
distribution
about
been
im-
1858.]
and
[are]Lepidosiren
as
the
Australian
less-perfected
the
in
will,I think,
India, is
the
against
of
the
and
Cape,
shut
am
Australian
that
and
as
stand
with-
these
could
of
New
will think
plants,flourishing
hold
their
of other
South-West
to
only
can
at
to
you
contingencies
up,
of
truth.
could
they
respect
able
say
solid
be
it to
that
With
look
productions
I dare
water,
plants
though
all the
natural
The
being
as
Europe.
admit
thousand
ten
how
argument
no
"c.
plants
I believe
bosh, but
so
those
yield to
Zealand
See
Indian.
the
resist
You
therefore
and
fresh
are
largest territory,I
the
being
as
fishes
Ornithorhynchus,
improved,"
"
most
not
Asia,
with
Europe
143
Ganoid
existing
all
; thus
forms
proved
PUBLICATION.
FOR
PLANS
plants,
Australia
the
"
own
whole
case.
You
.
read
say
yet written
But
either
send
you,
I have
of
will be
especiallythe
written
and
pages,
better
in
religion would
am
edition
'
the
old
that
be
have
good bye,
my
dear
it will
make
in
by
The
any
men
volume,
i2mo.
you
Geographical
be
.
weeks.
three
or
should
of
at
Principles.'
written
delighted
and
printed
Society,
like
and
it
volume
think
subject reallyseems
whom
to
Abstract,
my
have
printed separately,which
two
pages
respects.
brought
it for
of the
did
you
chapter, and
chapter.
folio
but
MS.,
my
whole
MS.
Abstract
discussion
thinking of
of the
begin
so
many
be
the
on
330
see
Glacial
must
for
large
too
or
require 150-200;
400
me
Abstract
to
long
my
shall
nor
now
like
Abstract
my
Distribution,
will
of
approved
and
not
should
you
to
believe
I know.
Lyell'sfourth
or
fifth
scandalously long
note.
So
Hooker,
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
now
THE
144
WRITING
OF
'ORIGIN
THE
C. Darwin
SPECIES.'
OF
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
Heer
at
future
some
say
you
well
I know
been
that
I have
often
doubtful
more
one
thinks
But
points.
of
the
on
of
train
doubtful
experienced
of
hyper-
thoughts,
obscure
and
what
and
more
the
to
call the
you
involved
more
in
facts and
reasoningon
myself with thinking
comfort
be solved
day
some
shall have
done
put in
You
continents,and
I also agree
only differ
we
that I think
and
dispersal,
some
; and
if
we
just
we
even
service,
quiteagree
in
degreeabout
amount
satisfactory
manner
striking
very
(I am
in
only about
agreeing frame
very
ad
hominem,
about
Flora
from
the number
of
in
comes
if
we
the
means
of accordance.
our
of
mind)
highness of
speciesand
genera
of
our
oceans.
of
bothering element
superlative
the
the mutation
; I doubt
argumentum
Australian
here
last very
harvest.
no
your
the
too
are
always
will
justenteringon,
break the ground we
are
cautious
plexing
per-
of the
reap
nothing
discussing.
borrow
to
Your
is done.
master
they
like
read
to
very
cannot
you
enough
mastered.
be
me
have
speculativepoints we
want
Abstract
instructive
much
very
time, for I
present till my
at
When
I should
"
[1859.
with
the
; but
doubt, viz.
is about
think
speaks
Miiller
ground
plantswould
plants could
make
thank
me
you,
not
you
occupy
live there.
believe
as
of their
; and
this.
will
see
presumptuouslyrather demur
naturalised
plantsin Australia.
of the
the status
cultivated
to
which
only point in
The
can
hardly believe
stations
I should
I have
barren
so
that
our
pean
Euro-
that
the
native
require much
written
it requiresno
this note
answer.
evidence
merely to
859.]
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I have
that
this
amazement
GeologicalCouncil
the
145
WALLACE.
MR.
have
from
morning
given
the
me
Phillips
Wollaston
!!!
Medal
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down, Jan.23rd,1859.
I enclose
letters to you
...
in
extremely the spirit
Please
he would
what
sure
very
that
return
to
much
how
and
me,
How
.
and
rest !
can
I admire
felt
never
amiable
an
Lyell ought
be
to
man.
told
how
vividlybrought before
kind
and
Lyell'smost
and
your
I shall be
glad
be
must
letters have
to
owe
written. I
they are
He
Wallace.
from
me
conduct
generous
.
which
say.
and
when
the
Abstract
is
finished,
C. Darwin
to A.
R.
Wallace.
they
fair
in
what
say how
and
largerwork,
poor
but
one.
which
YOL.
Dr. Hooker.
to
the
spiritin
which
I had
; for I almost
them
I should
for I have
health,but
My
500 pages.
copy,
that
admire
impression would
proved right,and
my
and
me
heartilyI
Though
your
to you
have
letter to
pleased at receiving
absolutely
nothingwhatever
to what
leading Lyell and Hooker
they thought a
could not but feel anxious
of action,yet I naturally
course
much
extremelymuch
was
your
written.
are
hear
to
ago
to
me
do
"
days
Permit
to
Sir,
dear
and
then
I believe
II.
you
my
thank
now,
Abstract
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think
Abstract
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am
small
I will,
of
published,
will
see
selection has
what
mean
indirectly
owe
that
have
never
God,
Lyell
would
completed
hard
in my
enough
last
volume
course,
my
with
chapter
of 400
send
about
the
you
or
a
part
146
WRITING
THE
tions.
It is
this note,
as
of the
copy
I have
paper.
I
point of view,
there
an
especialhobby
on
the
subject.
with
If you
and
birds'
under
exclusively
look
one
that selection
so
other
Few
after horses'
them.
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glad of
kind.
well
attending to
collect
can
be
of each
for measurements
been
the
instincts,
Museum.
mine, and
I should
bees
some
of
disposal.
if
stripes;
delighted
am
have
that you
hear
your
them.
add
pray
Society/
copies of
instincts vary,
offer to
donkeys,
to
great expense,
that
improve
for your
any
are
have
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be
thanks
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and
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some
that
address
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though almost
so,
the
oft^
by
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you
copiesat
viz. to show
work
as
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that you
hear
speak,can
to
sent
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Journalof
'
other
done
I have
could
have
many
glad to
am
nests.
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Selection."
subsequentlyI
and
'ORIGIN
THE
different part,
very
Natural
"
playedby
OF
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light
at
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very
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have
had
not
pupae,
examination.
are
Their
valuable
most
edges
should
be
protectedagainst abrasion.
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one
I have
whom
has
seen
thought your
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interesting.
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well written
1839,now
and
for
never
were
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an
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paper
very
extracts
(writtenin
I must
say in apology
for
into
publication,
the shade.
ask
You
frame
Lyell's
about
does
but
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often to me,
perverted."But
will end
as
all your
energy
as
you
capablejudge
Most
I think
it would
of
'
The
candid
cordiallydo
in
I wish
success,
what
job
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were
honest, and
I think
has
almost
become
at Hooker
as
byfar
the
Europe.
pursuits,and,
deserve
what
some-
if he
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and
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or
he is
be, and
heterodox
most
edition
he is most
mind.
not
thing
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of what
of
God
most
you
health
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amply
and
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if admirable
do you
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zeal
in
and
it. I look
859.]
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GEOGRAPHICAL
Abstract
perhaps
and
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at my
Believe
nearly
as
career
own
my
DISTRIBUTION.
greater work
my
as
course
dear
my
me,
If I
out.
run
147
publish my
can
the
on
subject,
same
done.
sir,yours
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
March
Down,
MY
HOOKER,
DEAR
it would
be
fact.
I think
which
apparentlycould
nestlingPetrels,and
I
value
to
seems
Hooker
(I gave
of you
these
whether
doubt
(but I
he
it and
will
birds
for
name
some
open
from
have
and
letter,
the
with
know.
it is
and
name
and
know
you.
errors
what
and
can,
to take
after my
like you
should
I have
so,
busy.
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my
earnestlybeg
you
I want
may
have
parts you
it,because
crept in.
will most
does
nut
"
to
Sir
let
rive,
ar-
W.
registered
this much
paper
hereafter
me
trouble
finished my
if,as
bearing on
I here
I say
I believe
honour,
not
Abstract
it ; but
read
to
do
extra
are
much
please
you
; for
heart.
own
will not
you
mortified,and
bother
if you
him
if any
see
slipof
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believingthat
you
Enclose
postage.
subject.
for another
chapter on
case,
you
askingyou
funny littlefact
subject. I
me
country
Forgive me
Now
the
I will repay
asked
Will
if the
stream.
Sir William
to
by returning it
Milner, Bart, Nunappleton, Tadcaster," in
you
young
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the
country.
than
in their crops ;
nuts
Hooker, and
bird
grandeur'ssake)to
its native
oblige
cut
curious
large,
little,
distribution
excessively.I
will)to send a nut
mention
with
nuts
this address
name
can
less to do
by parent
[1859].
an
hardly possible to
he found
suspect picked up
He
have
is
Sir W.
Petrel.
Here
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2nd
to
feel
of
my
this,
to
be
the
I shall
not
be
do
it,if it will
unsafe,
especially
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much
like to
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objectto.
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I know
2
148
THE
do,
we
should
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and
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again let
irksome.
me
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assistance,I
your
Abstract
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long
"
from
thing
any-
published
your
several
that you
say
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taken
chiefly
in the
me
taken
would
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whether
is not
[1859.
know
you
elsewhere,acknowledged
SPECIES.'
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several heads.
widely on
to
particularly
you,
'ORIGIN
THE
offer
not
it
do
to
sufficiently.*
read
to
ninety pages,
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aware
am
it if very
expect, when
fullycopied out.
I
hope
all well.
are
you
Park
Moor
has done
Yours
good.
some
me
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
far
Heaven
"
am
rightin supposingthat
for
characters
albumen, "c.
and
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main
be
itself cannot
seed
But
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of
embryological,and
how
plants
instance
is,of
as
the
the
of
case
course,
no
doubt
C. Darwin
the
Hooker,
DEAR
Petrels
it is curious.
"
pocket, but
whilst
chapterI
sent
when
as
did
never
if
pick
at
any
writing my
seed
of
are
I wish
logical
embryoKingdom
March
5th [1859].
of this.
to
Many
"
the
Animal
J. D. Hooker.
Down,
My
the
high importance
In
tion,
posi-
and
radicle,
important ?
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the
nor
their
and
in
embryo
these
are
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and
plumule
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embryological?
cotyledons
the whole
far
ant
import-
most
such, I suppose,
as
How
question :
plants,the
are
in classification.
characters
there
with
considered
form
is another
divisions
positionof
position and
to
here
forgive me,
thanks
pre-
keep on feeling(even
from
most
differing
you) just
I were
stealingfrom you, so
the
seed
.
St. Kilda
one's
about
much
owe
to your
conversation, so
mere
Letter
fed
apparentlybeing
do
much
by
writingsand
more
than
show."
acknowledgments
to Sir J. D. Hooker, 1859.
"
859.]
seeds
a
nut
will read
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(I presume) take
sent
as
soon
be
only
and
want
I have
doubt
to
see
glad
you
it will
finished ; it shall be
you,
note, for
your
ideas
will
you
on
that
see
I suppose,
all,as
at
are
which
sending
been
poorly,the
so
very
whether
I shall
.
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
chapter.
feared
You
to
would.
you
It
errors.
"
have
J. D. Hooker.
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do
particularlyfearful
was
whole
had
first been
afterwards.
include
I look
much
over
few
I should
...
; it would
it
at
you
your
have
like
in islands struck
to
you
that
certain
trouble
something important
whether
know
; it has
the
if the
it must
just
I will
generalviews.
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hence
abstracted
out, and
note, but do
many
better
been
have
of its
and
as
detected
memory,
morally
as
some
points in
replywithout
from
of my
say
much
so
have
to
seem
written
you
nearly
carefullywritten
in
error
not
it
15th [1859].
March
what
pleasedat
am
attacked
not
nearly all
was
done, though
little volume
get my
ever
I sometimes
days, that
last three
Down,
bats
very
embryological
I sent
; if facts
C. Darwin
to
am
whether
copying, and
now
being
your
which
this from
nearlycompleted.
run
noted
thanks.
many
so
in
so
or
sentence
see
; it is
be
sentence
one
I shall
glad
very
the
plants ; by
days
ten
done.
as
shall
ever
my
1 49
It should
Indies.
in the West
raised
it is
DISTRIBUTION.
GEOGRAPHICAL
to
yourself
say.
of endemic
case
especially
; perhaps too
me
strongly.
With
heartythanks,
ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
your
I
"
You
lookingover
shall
tell what
cannot
to-morrow
this
relief it has
chapter,as
I felt very
finish
last
my
been
shaky
on
to
me
it.
chapter (except
re-
150
THE
WRITING
OF
on
capitulation)
and
the
'ORIGIN
THE
SPECIES.'
OF
[1859.
facts
to
seem
to
me
out
come
for
strong
very
mutabilityof species.
I have
been
I shall now,
much
interested
in
thank
the
working out
chapter.
for press.
But
health is
my
now
so
very
that
poor,
even
long.
me
C. Darwin
W.
to
Fox.
D.
got
Fox,
midst
of all your
over
does
life I do
have
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can
is the
very
my
brain
mother's
your
the
old.
But
had
you
What
to
as
mere
time
backwards
go
was
odd
brain
or
such
some
that
facts
three
press ; and
I have
compel
see
if I
am
hope
to
me
I have
can
extent
try
you
;
to
sometime
think
that I work
but, if I know
make
out
come
to
myself,I
work
How
glad
truth.
Down
for fame
conclude
month
work.
I
work
over-
that
my
resolved
are
finished,to Ilkley,
anyhow give
; I value
from
I should
when
especially
that
in
of my
weary
sensation
no
finally
now
am
thinking. We
months, when
place,to
and
work,
my
for much
formed
never
go for two
thing
; but
daughter is improving.
proof-sheets. I
have
to
eldest
our
late,and
injustice
me
it to
sort
health
my
of
to
have
wife's and
account.
an
me
to
by
it, when
of
had
latelyof
poor
valued
daylightthrough
see
six weeks
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or
so
much, that
are
correctingmy
to
hear
to
to
seem
of your
recovery
heard
not
is much
think
not
to write
troubles,though you
had
sorry
of you
good
very
forwards.
and
or
suffer
not
must
you
am
was
them, in the
health,
health, and
she
"
of
some
own
your
It
DEAR
of instinct
be if you
get
certain
could
littlebetter,
859.]
PLANS
FOR
We
as
find it does
set
151
billiard
up
table,and
the horrid
drives
and
good,
species
old friend.
dear
Farewell, my
head.
of my
out
have
of
deal
me
PUBLICATION.
affectionately,
Yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
March
Down,
My
Lyell,
DEAR
able to go
to
so, I want
much
to
in
Lady
expression
spoken
what
prefer,or
think
would
what
Is it
him
to
fancy
that
him.
to
From
an
have
you
he
you
And
at
advise
what
Share
and
know
publicationI
edition ?
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terms
propose
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of
terms
be
willingto publish
Secondly, can
what
state
you.
whether
me
write
from
is he
And
book?
fair terms
be
so
will tell
the
better
first ask
Lyell's note,
to
This
earlyin May.
little advice
will then
subjectof
I had
volume
If you
passed, I
all of the
whether
[1859].
my
beg
Murray.
to
has
with
press
Abstract
my
If I
"
28th
me,
should
do
you
or
profits,
Lastly,will
title and
give
much
me
so
kind
very
health
largerand
it appears
the
on
the
at
criticisms
any
and
full book
look
to
as
opinion and
your
that,if I have
remember
have
be
you
enclosed
; you
worth
must
doing,I
subjectnearly
same
ready.
your
will be about
Abstract
My
first edition
of the
shall have
world
your
I
goes
various
am
free and
no
well
more
with
trouble
of
Geology.'
with
that
you,
and
hard
for me,
the above
the
on
of the size of
pages
you
queries;
subject.
are
and
hope
getting on
the
with
works.
working
try
Elements
troublingyou
Pray forgiveme
you
'
five hundred
to
very
recover
and
long
to finish and
health.
some
My
dear
Lyell,ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
be
THE
152
Very
WRITING
sincere
Wollaston
P.S.
is not
That
I do
Or
he
standing my
the
discuss
about
conclusions
had
[1859.
for the
proxy
than
Murray
them
That
man.
as
nothing
that
subjectmakes
Genesis,"c. "c,
say
I do not
me
bring
fair.
Murray, and
to
inevitable.
and
to
seem
book
my
that
assume
this much
object to
more
the
originof
from
I better
to tell
me
than
"?z-orthodox
not
cannot
is not
for
you
advise
you
discussion
such
and
to
SPECIES.'
OF
Medal
more
in any
thanks
Would
"
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
any
to Genesis.
counter
Enclosure.
ABSTRACT
AN
ON
ESSAY
AN
OF
THE
ORIGIN
OF
AND
SPECIES
THROUGH
VARIETIES
NATURAL
SELECTION
BY
Charles
FELLOW
OF
THE
AND
GEOLOGICAL,
ROYAL,
LONDON
"C.
M.A.
Darwin,
LINNEAN
SOCIETIES
".C.
"C.
"C.
1859.
C. Darwin
to
C.
Lyell.
Down,
My
all you
trouble
better
all you
to-morrow
LYELL,
DEAR
done.
have
and
some
than
to
have
You
been
have
anxiety, but
have
done
done
it.
have
not
Murray.
him, and
I will
will send
30th [1859].
uncommonly
only
could
about
say
You
"
March
am
write
saved
all
me
kind
in
much
incomparably
much
either
pleased at
to-day
or
of
859.]
PLANS
unfortunatelyI
MS., but
am
I look
as
and
references
I
also
am
it
at
facts
"
works
; but
have
ceased
to
again
most
the
I will defer
"
term
the
natural
to
thus
as
it is
long
so
and
you.
studied
hope
"
favoured
races."
constantlyused
surprised that
am
giving
selection."
preservationof
is that
term
it is not
in all
familiar
works
such
that
competent judge.
and
truly
reallyvaluable
Abstract,
term
him
I have
be
the
full,but
breeding,and
on
Murray
to
in
or
selection,
I like the
Why
53
as
for not
explanation somewhat
natural
Through
week,
only possibleapology
about
retain it with
to
the
as
sorry
for
cannot
Murray objecting to
about
sorry
PUBLICATION.
copyists'hands.
in the
chaptersare
I
FOR
cordiallythank
for
you
your
assistance.
Yours
truly,
most
C. Darwin.
C. Darivin
J. D. Hooker.
to
April2nd [1859].
Down,
I wrote
....
headings
MS.
of the
for ten
or
so
seeing the
have
I told him
been
of
I think
that
explicitly
to
book
scientific
men
conversation
men,
and
he could
morning
is eager
will be
some
;
so
why
popular
great and
so
have
the
letter,
out
publish with-
to
enough;
all the
or
will think
I think
the
think
to
to
me
a
surprisingan
dition
con-
presumptuous,
certain
(enough
extent
scientific and
is,because
letter,
your
part
seen
not
him
I received
agreeing
[against]
heavy loss)amongst
ensure
gave
retracting.You
my
he
So
that,after he has
power
this
him
terms, and
MS.!
most
told
; and
handsome
and
[Mr. Murray]
and
chapters,
days
offeringme
should
him
to
I have
found
interest amongst
O-scientific [non-scientific]
men
on
semi-
this
in
such
subject,
THE
154
WRITING
all my
and
which
OF
chapters are
have
you
Murray ought
it,I think
read
I may
judge,and
hands
my
sure
my
friends,i.e.Lyell and
kind
in
troublingyourselveson
shall be
delighted to
Friday ;
there
day
I believe
"
as
would
it would
and
carriagefor
house
the
both
advantage for
hope
will
you
no
dear
My
not
could
Please
"
Hooker,
towards
Geographical MS.,
i.e. 7th
God
and
8th
or
help him
take much
not
at
tied up
the
induce
allows.
state
of
more
week
next
to
"
Murray
it.
littledoubtingwhether
Murray
Darwin.
strong string,my
it with
to
Lyell would
; this
book
publish my
it rather
request, and
my
with
latter half
send
may
help a
pains to
done
shall
we
affectionate,
your
if he tries to read
I cannot
....
was
that
"
in
more.
send, well
to
"
the
send
that,as
C.
P.S.
day
relations
some
imbecile
my
that
on
for
care
other
in any
you
will,I believe,be
Good
before
day
home
boys come
impossiblethat I
tired,so
am
the
you
talking as
easilyget as much
shall deeply enjoy seeing you.
....
extraordinarily
my
There
you.
been
the matter.
see
one
almost
be
but I
"
be
publish
to
I am
responsibility.
have
you,
that
as
Anyhow,
if he chooses
of all
[1859.
dull
and
dry
geographical distribution.
on
wash
SPECIES.'
OF
nearly so
not
the best
to be
'ORIGIN
THE
grates againstmy
pride.
I know
but
your
that
dashed
Lyell has
been
kind
infinitely
"
[i.e.
underlined]
"
induce
about
gives the
my
affair,
idea
that
urged Murray.
Lyell had unfairly
C. Darwi?i
to Asa
Gray.
April4th [1859].
....
you
look
You
ask
to
see
request
as
my
sheets
as
printedoff; I
highestsatisfaction
a
to
high compliment.
me
to
I shall
do
assure
so
not, you
1859.]
DIFFICULTIES.
(and
it is
hard
heavy
press ; I
other
some
and
an
three
bees'
years, took
I
style. Yet
I must
found
which
letters,
your
but
would
you
head.
free
be
to
you
made
in
may
end
is
no
chapter
subjectas
during twenty
I have
most
egotistical
again
and
again
and
looking over
I shall
quote anything
cautious
very
succeed
hands, and
off your
such
latelybeen
fear that
not
heartilyhope
of old work
There
me
time.
useful
dislike,for I try
"
incubus
need
add
and
just finished
notes
I have
got
chaptertakes
am.
myself
how
three
I have
correct
to
grappling with
all my
justsay
you
I most
have
about
running on
only
too
I shall have
when
! each
despairinglength of
do
can
see
I have
slow
so
I go to
tions,
classificapalaeontology,
find,alas
I found
comparing
up
am
quoting !
all
as
and
months,
here
and
cells,
But
ones
digressions. I
necessary
and
instinct,
on
done.
at
before
55
But
indeed, I work
yet I
favour.
but
long chapters,
eleven
difficult
all those
average
the
health
as
long
idle ;
never
embryology, "c,
largelyto
on
am
I cannot
done
very
it will be
me)
to
daily,and
I have
but
"
weakened
much
of work
finished
"
trulysay
can
for my
hours
"
I look at
may
to
in
be in
this
on
gettingyour
degree
some
man
let
Again
say that I do
me
C. Darwin
indeed
to
feel
to
grateful
you
".
J. Murray.
Down, April5th [1859].
My
remarks
If you
It may
on
have
be
by
this
patience to
a
read
fair notion
conceit, but
public,and
think
I send
"
will have
you
the
Sir,
DEAR
otherwise,I
am
must
sure
all
of the
I
the
chapters.
believe
the
repeat my
first three
of the whole
subjectwill
are
book.
interest
original. If
will
you
freely
156
THE
WRITING
rejectmy
work
I shall be in
If you
a
As
by
read
to
littledisappointed,
III.,you will
have
you
Anne
for
must
a?id
with
have
plainand interesting
take
it
the
G.
Miss
plainlydirected,to
Tollett,
Square.
excellent
an
for
errors
she
sooner
done
Street,Cavendish
lady,being
You
the
as
Queen
look out
[1859.
injured.
way
eftil messenger,
This
I shall be
though
SPECIES.'
OF
opinion.
soon
car
14,
no
'ORIGIN
THE
rather abstruse
in my
one,
; and
choose
dull and
OF
judge
of
style,is going
to
me.
time,but the
own
your
will,and
the
I shall
sooner
sooner
get
finish,
you
press, which
to
earnestlywish.
so
I presume
of my
arch, and
me
this head.
on
will wish
to
Chapters
X.
you
My
see
XL, but
and
dear
Sir,yours
inform
pleaseto
sincerely,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
[1859].
yesterday,and
his
he says
(and this
MS.
one
offer).Hence
send
line to
one
...
includes
he
not
"
me
father,he
The
worst
press, and
looked
does
far
over
dull one,
very
want
am
very
two
pages."]
sorry
is
have
now
of
that
it will
abides
and
pleasesyou.
been
lost
Sir
J. D.
cause
Murray
chaptersof
he
MS.,
more
it
and
Hooker
by
can
you
its way
on
back
have
killed
delay in gettingto
chapter,except
Mrs.
from
I heard
read
(April14) to
wrote
worst
my
to
seems
the old
I have
!
has
that
Geographicalchapterwhen
my
to my
he
say
Hooker
took
the
the
third
part returned.
trouble
of
copying the
859.]
STYLE.
C. Darwin
157
J. D. Hooker.
to
Please
.
not
to
say
that
one
any
book
have
on
for if it prove
my
fairly
ambition),
my
make
it would
failure,
dead
thought
the
me
more
ridiculous.
I enclose
not
be
of
the
of notice
worthy
If it
anything more,
means
Wallace
and
for the
whose
auspices it
it says, it is
what
means
it is
would
weight of authority
yours),under
brought forward.
; if it
truism
"
Dublin*
Society,
Geological
Darwin
it not
were
{i.e.
Lyell'sand
names
been
has
to the
Messrs.
speculationof
"This
of the future
taste
Haughtoris Address
S,
Rev.
criticism,a
fact."
to
contrary
Q.
C. Darwin
HOOKER,
DEAR
Thank
"
But
the very
fail.
that
having
three
or
You
who
nigger with
no
than
clearness
has
read
man
to
to
about
lash
all my
the
over
done.
probability
MS.
Mrs.
I will do
take
[1859].
I have
the
sentences, but
tremble.
me
good
at
obscure
it,makes
are
life
nth
May
telling me
of itself leads
me,
lady
one
found
so
proofs.
my
trouble
has
Hooker
best in
to
write
it.
about
With
respect to
Feb.
"
9,
When
will
hardly
and
Yet
only two
found
to
difficulty
for
you
my
harder
worked
have
him
on
E. D.
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
see
muddle,f
mutual
1858.
I go
how
we
the
over
what
know
I think
mutual
our
are
can
am
chapter
do,
but
obscure,
somehow
in
never
muddle
with
for
moment
respect
to each
some
starting from
different
notions."
fundamentally
Letter of May 6, 1859.
other,
from
"
158
THE
WRITING
OF
could
thought we
I
imagine
I could
from
Reversion
inheritance
was
such
on
again (a
form
of
ask
not
it
inherited,
further
do, I do
you
to
there
that
to
variability
importance
on
go
not
agree.
at
course
if
for
us,
in
as
It
to us.
signification
no
fanciedthat
these I
some
Variation, though of
is of
by
what,
me
I look
inheritance),
with
fundamental
pointsas
the
degree. If
or
is of
be
variation
in
tendency
other
variabilityas
at
organisms, and
directlyconnected
way
look
[1859.
in extenso.
write
to
you
character
"
clear to each
expressions(but if you
some
necessary
some
no
time
contingency with
diverging in
"
had
us
SPECIES.'
OF
ideas
our
answer) that
not
necessary
is
make
not
talk,or if either of
'ORIGIN
THE
perhaps started
we
differently.
that
I fear
thingsyou
have
with
done
the
Since
about
say
deserve
not
it ; and
all the
at
Lord, how
Good
much
interested
note
about
my
and
it is futile to
give
arbitraryline
at
"
written, I have
was
been
A.
Gray.
Wallace's
paper.
by
up
very
others.
He
to
sorry
as
say
for
that
object is
my
will go
it is not, you
to
drive
week.
could
health
of
look
the
at
stop
Christian."
falling
has
am
proofs
any
of my
subject out
worth
any
In
very
Of Sir J.D.
Hooker's
while,which
haste,ever
Introduction
to the
Flora
am
very
in the
head.
proofs till my
week,
I shall
probably
return
home.
yours,
C. Darwin.
an
[1859].
failed.
over
18th
May
quite
Hydropathy.
If it be
keep back
round, for
J. D. Hooker.
to
week
his
at
grandfathercalled
my
catch
to
My
"
I cannot
to-morrow
return
to
have
and
species,and
many
bed
feather
HOOKER,
off to-morrow
long
delighted
am
Down,
DEAR
I do
received
It is what
C. Darwin
My
pleasant
it !
above
Unitarianism,
will
book
my
of Australia.'
I859-]
[Ten days
later he wrote
write
"...
do
glad to
I had
to
have
any
douche, and
of
world
me
word
159
Hooker
J. D.
that
say
'
shall
Adam
and
will
Bede,'have
corrections
I
get
together done
J. Mtirray.
to
what
wrote
I find
clear
make
are
the
very
and
heavy,
still
How
written.
badly
inconceivable, but
attention
not
fixed
being
All I
details.
on
well, and
very
have
to
few
be
I remember
trifling
of time
loss
heavy
as
that
hope
I could
have
suppose
it
for
and
later
to say,
sorry
that
me,
the
owing
to
on
the
general line
of
can
say
is,that I
very
am
very
from
not
badly
so
on
rections
cor-
But
chapters are
written
Yours
difficult
most
possible.
as
was
grievously
most
was
correction.
extremely
am
writing to
much
not
style incrediblybad,
smooth.
and
glances,I
casual
do
thought, but
of expense,
account
West
would
there
thought
mistaken.
to
Mr.
to
slowlywith proofs.
very
honestly
shortly
will
diagram
made.
on
that
you
The
"
it
entire
good."]
Sir,
send
I shall
but
body,
Down,
DEAR
on
criticisms.
C. Darwin
My
return
proof-sheetsto send,
the
rest, and
Sir
to
best in any
my
one
if you
Saturday, and
be
SHEETS.
PROOF
is
my
so
quite
whole
argument,
and
sorry.
sincerely,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I have
"
them.
expense.
such
you
It
been
seems
If you
arrangement
to
allow
in the
looking at
to
that
me
please I
the
as
all
corrections,and
my
or
paid by
profits,
me
should
excess
corrections,and
I shall
following:
account
for
the
put you
like
to
When
to
ing
consider-
quiteunfair
enter
into
work
completed,
some
fairlymoderatelyheavy charge
over
that to be deducted
individually.
from
l6o
WRITING
THE
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
C. Darwin
C.
to
SPECIES.'
OF
Lyell.
Down, June
...
working
am
corrections
that my
difficult to
will be about
corrected
I have
500.
130
tried my
but
striking,
very
much
fear that
are
and
must
be very
had
all my
best.
If you
made
perplexing.
materials,I
I
splendid book.
failed
long
am
sure
it clear and
so
"
cussions
dis-
many
I have
done
my
would
you
finish,for
to
most
the volume
make
to
I have
I find
the work
and
pages,
best
[1859].
21st
slowly,for
on
terrifically
heavy, and
are
I have
me.
very
L1859.
have
nearly
am
out.
worn
dear
My
Lyell,ever
truly,
most
yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
22nd
Down,
My
Hooker,
DEAR
of
deal
good
I did not
"
with
been
particularto do,
to
particular
to
and
proofs;
fasten
such
slipsof
is
dream
will
who
dreamt
pretty well
publicwill
never
proofs!
give
up
Mr.
occurrence
sociated
Prestwich
on
of flint instruments
with
book
and
has
blacken
I found
the
begin
to
fear that
perplexing. But
have
made
to hear
been
(and
as-
1859.
style.
entertaining
; that
glad
animals
thing
any-
them, and
was
the
of extinct
nothing
have
man
could
man
materials.
I have
correctingaccursed
was
and
me,
better
doubt
in
have
intolerablydry
that
wrote
miserable
so
to
fairly
that my
I have
over
find it
day
have
having nothing
now,
can
30th, as
though
note,
every
May
But
Indeed, how
spends
on,
pleasantnote,
your
of
me,
you.
fly
ask.
paper
You
the
say,
I will
or
say
to
news
answer
[June,1859].
in France.
"
see
Proc.
I
a
about
Wright
R.
Soc,
1859J
the
of flint
reallytools
are
came
to
Acacia
crossing the
worked, that I
to
make
they
doubt,
me
Perthe's
de
pieces
and
drawings,I
angular fragments
were
ice action.
by
Did
that
conclusion
the
Boucher
at
the
')whether
; their numbers
formerlylooked
when
broken
same
Athenaeum
'
in the
has inserted
l6l
SHEETS.
PROOF
150 pages
make
can
do
any
good
got only
I have
experiments.
no
hard
so
am
in first proof.
dear
Adios, my
Hooker,
ever
yours,
C.
C. Darwin
Darwin.
J. ]\Iiirray.
to
to
only
"
strike
printersready to
revise ;
what
number
Sir,
DEAR
that I presume
so
of
off,and
you
whether
I
you,
will
have
soon
require
decide
to
copiesto printoft".
But
sheets
more
am
have
two
returned
are
to
degree to satisfy
conjecture. I heartilyhope
reallycannot
My
Sir,yours
dear
infinite trouble.
clear,with
will be successful
book
the
I think
it may.
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to A.
Wallace.
R.
Down,
My
memoir
on
Linnean
me
till the
admirable
This
Wallace's
VOL.
the
WALLACE,
seems
you
beginningof
in matter,
to
paper, "On
II.
But
refer
the
"
received
will forward
7th, and
Society.
meeting
to
Mr.
DEAR
will be
it to-morrow
that
Your
style,and reasoning;
Geography of
Zoological pelago,"'Linn.
to
Mr.
letter
your
aware
November.
Aug. 9th,1859.
the
Soc.
and
to
there
paper
and
the
is
no
seems
I thank
Malay Archii860.
Journ.,'
M
62
THE
WRITING
you
for
ago,
I should
But
my
not
yet corrected, I
that
allowing me
improve
the
the
with
yours,
shall be
altered
same
word
So
style.
Are
you
ago
the view
and
owing
struck with
much
was
been
has
good
would
do
What
puzzle.
fossil mastodon's
Celebes
was
to
new
anomalous
of Good
Cape
side.
your
situated
relation
but
of
islands, but
I
quite agree
far in the
stocked
ocean.
with
ill-stocked
annually
birds
blown
Bermuda
from
of my
*
to
reasons
Probably Mr.
are
America)
for not
W.
the islands ?
in the
led
that
conclude
to
has
in the different
certain
been
been
extent,,
greatest
my
peculiar Felis
almost
there?
asserted
to
was
that
you
will
with
respect
agree
lands
Madeira,
believingin
is
every
the
on
think
the
Forbes's
else
one
little
not-
sional
occa-
once
this does
you
Azores
given a
as
the
to
all islands
to
Are
quite
It is
[islands?]when
islands.
I had
been
the colonisation
on
have
that
Australia
you
aware
belief.
passes
'from
wholly
I wish
Earle's paper,
plants in S.W.
quite
of
habit
where,
else-
but
inhabitants,
risingand
apply
pelago,
Archi-
intermigrationbetween
pretty well
years-
archipelago,and
grand fact.
I differ
Hope.
oceanic
of
on
peculiar
;
the
as
the
one
ideas.
your
Malay
been
; it has
marvellous, and
and
me,
be
would
very
not
or
there,which
found
have
thought,to
visited Timor
had
that you
nearly
are
read
between
been
to
merely
it that
in the
sea
Timor
say
you
views
of naturalisation
for anomalies.
account
word, and
one
in that
I have
which
Malay islands,and
wish
of the
have
deal
health,
[sic]
publishedseveral
this,and
in
weak
and
of animals
depth
relation.
in this
there
Earl
months
some
rely on
having
my
noting
in
that my
may
it
[1859..
forthcomingvolume..
out
see
to
of distribution
in relation to the
I
will
you
W.
I read
add
to
not
you
that Mr.
aware
wearied
so
am
Had
subjectare
this
chapterson
SPECIES.'
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it for my
profitedby
fullyresolved
am
it.
read
to
have
two
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
aware
not
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(and
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fuller abstract
great continental
GeographicalSoc. Journal,1845.
859.]
out, and
bitterlyoppose
is
of
of
doubt, will
not
Australia, and
proofs
seen
am
publishinga grand
Flora
the
have
length.
I do
Owen,
rest.
Hooker
us.
"
have
must
to
it is too
; but
extensions
worn
163
HEALTH.
about
the
goes
whole
With
half.
troduction
In-
every
wish.
good
Believe
yours
me,
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Sept.1st [1859].
Down,
I
difficult.
very
"have
you
value
of such
yours
are
and
hope
and
then
daily work
three hours
be
ever
criticise
that
much
too
my
criticisms
the
sheets
unless
some
chaptersof
of the
that
am
book,
my
three weeks,
months'
hydropathy ;
becoming as weak as a
can
so.
are
render
should
impertinenceand
is
you
to
give
time
any
you,
for
however
little,
and
beg
when
I say
if you
you
to
You
courage.
to
extremely interesting
anything
me
feel up
not
truth
can
whether
something.
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I
knows
my
the
speak strictly
worth
(ifyou
proof-sheets. God
the
that
me
Australian
your
rather
labour.
extent
some
all in about
Gray'sEssay, and
if I had
it,even
will believe
for
do
A.
had
not
at
good
hydropathy may
I have
for
bad, and
very
the
worth
fullyconvinced
am
last two
start
to
mud";
published.
ever
the
in the
"deep
say
child,and
and
all)shall
(orwe
and
do not
labour, and
well
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revises and
done
has been
health
I shall
all but
have
to
be
must
valuable
corrected
are
result will be
generalessays,
the most
I have
my
fool,I
am
the
and
fingers,"
the
Introduction
findingyour
your
grudge
not
your
that
sure
do
But
burnt
for I feel
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...
to
me,
think
send
good days);
but
little assistance,
M
164
THE
I would
rather
that
wish
read
I had
the world
be
trulyvexed
has
whatever.
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shall meet
not
as
never
will
I have
before.
saw
grumble
insanely
an
It is
o'clock
12
weariful,
so
doing nothing
So
more.
no
every
farewell, we
I trust.
in the winter
dear
Farewell,my
makes
yesterday,which
accursed
afternoon, after
I
stand
under-
them, if you
read
to
gloomy to-day,and
extra
required
whole
[1859.
published. Pray
fit of sickness
to finish my
killingthe
SPECIES.'
OF
sake.
own
rather
strong wish
page
essay
long
terribly
when
the
I should
it for your
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
WRITING
Hooker,
affectionate friend,
your
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Sept.2nd [1859].
Down,
I
them, but
offered
have
; I wrote
you
did
to
I think
have
not
most, and
know
not
whether
to
the
to
got
which
clean sheets
my
Murray
it would
bore
send
them.
to
part which
tells most
I should
will interest
in favour
of the
view,
and
GeologicalSuccession,GeographicalDistribution,
cially
espe-
you,
Morphology, Embryology
will
that the
see
you.
of the
address
in
am
on
perplexing
them
and
without
unintelligible,
The
You
says, corrected
an
so
will find
old
and
heavily,as
illustrates descent
to
your
all,
has
for
not
Chapter IV.
with
proof.
almost
diagram
me
perfect
will read
you
sentence
argument.
I send
that
of
sent
? if so, send
hope
whole
which
printedoff,are
send
the
it ; but
*
is not
there
Murray
re-written
I correct
as
envelope.
diagram,*of
have, as
Rudimentary Organs.
to
me
latter part
(especially
convinced
bearing
queer
sheets
dull
whether
like for
you
blank
and
remainingsheets,when
would
But
revises
see
UnfortunatelyI
viz.
wish
glad you
very
am
...
to
Parts
divergence.
have
are
1859.]
I do
intricate ; and
yourself(likeso
I
to
necessary
more
influence
views
as
be
in
I cannot
future
created
as
about
my
book
shells
the
and
HOOKER,
DEAR
But
forgive me
I have
the
to
near
now
thank
work,
I write
about
of
end
to
say
miserably unwell
send
me
any
As
or
some
time
or
more
soon
as
other
yet,
be
as
of
[1859].
proofyesterday,
will take
neck
the
that
hardly
me
of my
ever
Hydropathic
my
proposes
to
the
subjectfrom
to
if I
be
(and
fear
anything for
do
could, pray
was) the
you
not
most
after
some
you.
been
correct
I shall be off to
so
But
heavily on
first week
relief to
my
head
mind
and
Ilkley,
I shall be
utterlyobscured
the
publish
my
but
do
feeling
was
wrote.
use,
establishment.
proofs have
any
fairlyfinished
I have
conscience
my
proofs,but
when
I should
to
in
uneasy
your
years'help from
over
hesitate
corrections,that I have
Murray
So
am
shattered
proofs.
to
that
and
could
ungrateful man
fifteen
been
running
[Sept.]nth
last
the
month.
look
hesitatingto
I
for
we
God, is broken.
now
suppose
as
J. D. Hooker.
to
the
our
have
to
my
in
I corrected
"
belief
current
Down,
My
such
admittance, and
their
them.
C. Darwin
have
whether
thought
last
probably
been
the
rejected at present ;
about
hobby-horse.
my
will
having
see
now
we
much
as
absolutely
the creation
to
deciding
or
about
it is
stick
verdict
in
length and
in
point briefly
this
admitted
doubt
marvel
fossil
about
your
will be
that
them
committing
certain
length,or
vast
in
hurry
make
could
you
convinced
that
than
I hold
posteritywill
on
deeply
am
Remember
chapter.
do
even
of each
the
that
beg,
the whole
go
16$
FINISHED.
to go
naturalists)
many
further ; for
no
think
not
not, I
Do
clear.
quite
SHEETS
FROOF
some
with
revises.
in November.
body
to banish
66
THE
WRITING
hope
OF
do
God, you
to
'ORIGIN
THE
think
not
SPECIES.'
OF
me
brute
[1859.
about
your
proof-sheets.
Farewell,yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell,
Sept.20th [1859].
Down,
My
rather
I
Lyell.
dear
delight,
by
you
have
you
have
noticed
for the
will make
of
and
have
of
eyes
the
the
Sir
Charles
mind
the
Aberdeen
in
subject
appear
result
has
those
rise to
at
races
any
other
I believe
dozen
Therefore
let
receive
in animals
those
and
Charles
mysterious
the
are
which
shortly by
very
Darwin,
the
Geology,by
which
of nature
and
which
permanent
he
that
give
varieties
differences of
in
his
to
in
much
have
flood
of
most
same
in
give
genericrank.
and
investigations
throwing
you
longer
species,and
to
me
the
are
plants,
periodsproduce
appears
am
(in perhaps
to
will
beg
me
address
in the
men,
following
powers
verdict
regard your
the
been
in
Mr.
Botany, and
(ifyou
eyes, and
as
immutability
work
by
ing
meet-
ridiculing
The
the
at
Association
even
sentence
1859.
occurs
passage
On
British
as
more
convertingyou
chapters, which
of
of
the
on
own
it.
latter
President
was
in
yet
be
myself,and
instead
subject,
doubts
now
manner
till you
open
my
Geologicalsection
of
of
about
anxious
fortnight's
time)
my
than
world
naturallyvery
to
keep your
book
my
for
I know
the
the
could
Nothing
you
manner
notions, and
pleasureby
influence
more
important in
more
thank
felt
previously
your
converted)than
far
consider
fairly
many
Reef
similar
me
or
pleasure,
interested,in
were
Coral
my
intense
me
gave
specieswork.*
my
me,
species,may
as
"
you
sake, as
subject's
Although
be
the way
again given
to
satisfactory
it.
once
expected, in
never
more
You
"
rise
He
succeeded
reasonings
light on
classes
of phenomena connected
many
with the affinities,
cal
geographiand geological
succession
distribution,
of organicbeings,for which
other hypothesishas been
no
able,
has even
or
attempted to account."
a
859-]
all
important of
which
and
strongly express
I
it took
not
to
me
is run,
The
mass,
all the
to
the
arguments
truth
shirked
never
chapter,
I cannot
general
too
of my
difficulty.
that
verdict,not
I shall
converted
; for
I remember
round
; but
I shall
be
the
be
most
come
little whether
care
last
you.
in the
fair share
of
come
do
side.
useful
for your
are
you
I have
knows
God
disappointedif
years
in
conviction
my
anxious
foolishly
am
long
balances
will,I think, be
pro,
doctrines,and
favourable
the
on
up, and
sums
contra
l6/
ENCOURAGEMENT,
ever
feel that
career
my
for
good
am
anything
in this life.
again
Thank
about
much
you
your
for
allowing me
doubt*
grave
and
much
So
put in the
to
sentence
much
too
about
myself.
read
I have
about
with
the
clearer to
; I suppose
me
With
cordial
Believe
thanks
me,
my
have
made
that you
the Glacial
sufficient about
whole
the
did
think
not
splendidnotice
of my
affectionate
Lyell,your
C. Darwin
VV. D.
to
days
ago.
in such
heart
Fox,
would
daily work.
As
think
cannot
soon
compulsion
my
largelyin
was
wishing
was
without
better, I
very
to
glad
hear
to
disciple,
go
an
to
to
old
the
to
write
about
Though
it at
Malvern
all
to
your
Sept.23rd [1859].
letter
you,
but
man
have
one
do
or
of
account
and
satisfactory,
again. My
saying that,if
Darwin.
get your
overworked
absorbed, slavish,
an
beyond
"
book.
Fox.
Down,
DEAR
far
case
the evidence
Charles
My
paper
period.
for your
dear
in the Aberdeen
interest
extreme
father
grew
few
been
not
anything
yourself is
I wish
used
to
you
believe
thinner between
'
ed. i.,
immutabilityof species,
Origin,'
p.
310.
68
THE
WRITING
and sixtyyears
fifty
that
the
on
have
Moor
I
kept
Park
have
and
bad
as
on
I have
as
two
or
three
revises
Remember
only
months
of
given
it, but
gives
the
me
curious
to
is
Hooker
has
for my
much
Ilkley,but
late that
three
abominable
that
labour
or
take
shall not
we
four weeks
for
will
On
for the
house
; but
will be
as
bad
as
bad
weeks, and
and
stomach.
C. Darwin
to
C.
I have
DEAR
I send
"
thanks
have
nearly similar
been
; you
to
your
clear
do
by
about
by recent,
would
LYELL,
So
soon.
me
so
much,
I start
!
week
for
It is
alone
and
I shall
intend, if I
can
so
for
to
go
get
keep
to
I fear ennui
But
Lyell.
Sept.25th [1859].
the Eocene
remark.
that
not
this
round.
come
there
then
about
much
3rd
Down,
My
sheets,and
cost
I go
my
you.
journey
for
home
return
four
or
convert
belief
October
days
spellof hydropathy ;
moderate
has
three
a
think
so
publish his
it.
; then
three
wavering
far
are
you
in clean
hate
take
to
expect
you.
above
me
what
hear
to
volume, which
almost
shall
Park
Moor
round, and
come
cost
I expect he will
immutabilityof species,that
to
published
authorities
facts and
He
intervals
shall be sent
copy
great kudos.
very
; and
summer
It will be
(but has
sillyas
so
about
Abstract
an
My
omen.
short
at
do.
and
I shall be
not
read
be all this
fatter ;
grew
to
write ! !),
and
to
am
done
November,
in full.
I
Lyell has
better
good
in
from
been
as
in the firstweek
thirteen
at
[1859,
poor, and
good sign if he
a very
as
good
very
last
it is
of
it well could
as
SPECIES.'
OF
legs,only by going
my
; but
at
index
stoutness, I look
contrary it was
that your
so
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
But
supposed
fauna
I
being beaten
imagined
the
sheets.
climate
that
to
it
be
1S59.]
of
the
ENCOURAGEMENT.
world
is
error
was
MS.,
glad
climate
think.
to
than
find
to
different
parts
I think
that
seem
mischievous
more
very
Not
naturalists
most
as
in
periods
recent
be matched.
could
important
no
and
Eocene
you
to
in the midst
curious
of
the
this
do
been
so
I must
But
thank
for
labour
world
this
you
believe
who
in vain.
But
You
as
the view
of
should
like
organism
would
of my
one
the
tion
Imperfec-
more
was
strongest points
by running
mind
My
on.
throwing
for
doubt
to
on
certainly
laugh
if you
knew
it has
acted
like
how
a
first time.
the
with
short way
very
universal
the
right,and
you
and
time
away
what
not
care
for months
I have
of late that
been
I have
Aberdeen.
at
me
and
work
contented, for my
am
tribution
dis-
periods.
warmer
on
of
part.
any
eulogy
now
think
you
subject.
not
but
do, I
paragraph,and
your
is
going
not
far,or
go
about
always found
am
what
Chapter
you
your
I have
; I have
occasion
Whether
in
of any
case
exaggerated ;
exhausted
nothing.
says
of the
for
and
whether
bore
not
you
wearied
doubted
preceding
the
Chapter VIII.
wearisomely full
so
think
not
chapter than
in
Embryology
is
hear
to
Geological Record
fearful about
I think.
the
on
glacialand
do
glad you
so
reflect
hereafter
the
during
am
in
over,
of its range.
I shall be
read
who
Hooker,
that
opinion
this.
the
consider
the
nearly so
In my
my
of
69
often
others
cannot
I have
littledram.
read
be
Farewell,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
C.
Lyell.
Down,
My
but
Lord
DEAR
without
High
Lyell,
"
I sent
index, which
Chancellor
off this
is not
in
morning
the
I look
at
Science,
and
in type.
Natural
Sept.30th [1859].
last sheets,
you
as
my
therefore
THE
170
WRITING
I request you,
heads
in
the
volume,
to
and
it
years
you
fairly. I
feel
your
the
that
the
the
the
and
sterile
problems
in
good
can
I have
for
can
idle and
have
hear
Tuesday
on
finished
from
my
requisite;
give
me
scribbled
second
some
few
any
edition.
to
to
be
see,
or
them,
to
and
mind
future
by
is over;
remarks
on
clearlywhat
of
as
character,the
with
area,
of
sterile
the way
first
in
the
in
curious.
ceeded
suc-
Well,
hard
work, I
has
never
that
scribbling,
am
able
not
; but
start
to
hope
to
get
thought
and
what
see
I have
which
was
unwell
to
as
and
work
too
day,
criticisms
be
solved, such
far
so
much
Wednesday.
book
my
would
you
see
rather
me
God,
was
of the
some
difficult
more
seems
thank
long
many
continuous
rainy afternoon.
Never
you.
me
problem
was
solve
to
subject
"c.
had, and
Ilkleyyesterday as
there
it
an
work,
You
fruit.
borne
it
this
I have
you,
double
hybrids,"c.
doing, and
assure
had
on
varieties,
than
bad, my
or
it took
principleof divergence
; the
the
come
fairlystruck
thinker,for
slow
which
were
if you
will
how
the
insects.
very
I think
were
abashed.
of years
conditions
Looking back,
the
of intermediate
graduated
crosses
am
problems
necessityof
extinction
quite
given
that
the face of
into
of neuter
the number
surprisedat
of
look
to
occur
keep
well
able
may
as
I have
you
shall be
in my
extent, you
longer
the
given
conviction
I could
case
that
moderate
any
feel
contras
entire
I
are
contras
will think
I remember
not
before
and
pros
an
(ifyou
and
[1859.
over
re-run
chapter.
decide
mind.
before
was
I suppose
some
to
last
pros
round, the
more
difficulties and
colours
other
that
all before
at
of
you
of the
such
staggered
now
more
of
SPECIES.'
OF
finished,justto
what
balance
hope
difficulties
are
hear
to
and
you.
have
recapitulation
-part
the
decide)on
'ORIGIN
THE
after you
anxious
deeply
OF
little
pitchinto
London
over
me,
it,let
if you
possibly,you
detail, that
margin, for
is, if you
the
you
chance
me
think
may
have
of
859.]
FINISHED.
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Murray
rather
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I make
Forgive
printed
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much
believe
and
me,
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1250
me,
book
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my
Lyell,
most
sincerely,
dear
my
me
lose.
not
if it
as
to
seems
large an
as
171
Yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
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Is
to
write
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Be
"
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All
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I
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course
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of
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of
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Lyell has
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letters ; but
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converted,
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or
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in
my
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hope
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you
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to
give hydropathy
soon
quite
keep
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last
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are
tell
and
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good
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your Introduction
it,and
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HOOKER,
DEAR
three
yet
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calls
like
volume-
dispersalduring
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THE
172
WRITING
Glacial
period.
head.
I have
send
book
How
refreshingit
think
in
killed
me.
rest.
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with
about
how
can
you
will
You
impunity.
read
book
Yours
any
English
how
hardly
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which
taking
dear
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never
of
worked
stretch
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to
think
have
you
day
and
good,
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some
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mentally,but
are
this
on
addresses.
cannot
day, and
[1859.
know
you
of your
working
on
go
any
their
me
You
hear
strong you
tight. Farewell, my
too
I could
very
do
confounded
my
wish
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will believe
late
least
the
it be
give
so,
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idle away
is to
he thinks
? and
in Sweden
Andersson
about
what
Continent, who
subjects? if
for such
care
the
on
SPECIES.'
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Decaisne
to
botanists
philosophical
and
ask
question to
one
of my
copy
like to know
I should
OF
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
the
string
friend,
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Danvin
to T. H.
Huxley.
HUXLEY,
DEAR
coming
would
killed
me.
I have
addresses
would
Sir Roderick
the
tell
you
it would
'
how
me
of any
be
worth
I should
Murray
I need
can
would
half-
else,but
one
give
else to
book,
me
bit of
one
apply ; viz.,the
while
and
afford
I know
that
I will
foreignersto
speculative
send
to
copies of
whether
I doubt
to
say
latter).
good
like
accursed
my
any
whom
to
the
Origin of Species ?
many
the
know
to
you
not
'
Siebold.
to
thought
Barrande, Von
of
work
easy
I know
information, and
whom
been
have
hydropathising and
here
am
having finished
to
which
Can
"
send
not
few
book,
my
it is worth
on
sending
what
price
affixes.
not
first week
immediately.
say
of November.
I shall be
send, of
I
hope
course,
to
curious
intensely
send
to
one
to
you, in
copies abroad
hear
what
effect
859.]
the
book
in
am
think
others
what
the mob
not
act
I write
with
aqua
and
I shall
and
you
to
two
or
not
care
penultimatechapter,*
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truth,will,I much
the
it includes
many
convert
to
right road,
think.
doubt
not
whole, you
the
the
on
am
I do
73
will be much
there
expecting
if,on
; but
Do
savage.
"
from
far
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and
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of naturalists
I believe
Fleming,
you.
heresies
three
you
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though
on
will
you
errors.
many
AT
produces
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ILKLEY.
RESTING
like
say,
fear,make
Macleay
versus
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwi?i
C.
to
Lyell.
Yorkshire.
Ilkley,
Oct.
My
LYELL,
DEAR
I have
"
and
consecutively,
half
enough
me,
and
for their
in the
is
of credence
the animals
which
you
in them
you
you
have
given
tion
of fluctua-
evidence
the
and
many
ters
let-
thanked
they
give to
many
theory ;
nor
am
fluctuations
grandes
as
the American
as
much
takes
ten
endure
aid the
without
they
as
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of La
or
more
Chapter
XIII.
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years
is
Rudimentary Organs.
on
notice,
Australia,
aid.
not
can-
that
But, letting
suffer
all be
prodigious
destroyed.
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the cattle.
not
in
man's
feral cattle.
secos
I did
plants)naturalised
destruction
"
to
seem
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not
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man
letter which
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see
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point
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feel that
see
all your
over
pleasure which
extreme
utility. I
degree
reading
[1859].
undergone.
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the
not
I at all
have
for the
I do
been
20th
parts of
before
the
suffer
India, after
indigenous
apparently
drought,it
mammals
Morphology, Embryology,
Classification,
get
and
THE
174
apply
the
to
An
when
so,
feel inclined
Again, I
for
impudent
climate, but
throughout
and
West
the
Eocene
all
Europe,
With
created
so
beat
to
the
say
you
the
Eocene
of
climate
and
me
maux-land
Esquido
surely you
from
the
Arctic
present
differ
regions
might,
created
aborigines;
the
American
said
that
they
well
created,
on
think, be
them
prevent
reflected
I have
being
but
this
and
necessity;
of Natural
theory
good
deal
on
too
to
seems
its
what
were
as
so
somehow,
me,
Selection
valueless.
for the
will account
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believe
forgive
with cordial
me,
for
me
I believe
and
productionof
every
in
the
typal
simple Arche-
natural
vertebrate
indulging
see
make
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or
vestigeof mind,
some
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sity
neces-
I cannot
power.
the
on
say
you
of creative
intervention
of continued
senses
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as
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think
doctrine.
monstrous
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the
differed
much
territories.
not
under
Equatorial Africa;
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America,
in
type
withstand
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do
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ter-
hardly
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large
:
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climate
climate.
organisms being
to
respect
climate
about
have
now
EquatorialAfrica
from
to
can
man
think
not
could
man
several
small
one
climate, but
at
swear
would, I think,
feral in
over
attacking you
whether
doubt
to
[1859..
the feral.
becomes
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once
SPECIES.'
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argument
to
as
destroyed by
be
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believe
well
plant which
or
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again.
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'ORIGIN
THE
OF
to
up
WRITING
this
the
five
selection
animal.
and
prose,
thanks,
Your
attached
ever
disciple,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
the
When,
"
margin
clear,"or
I
could
would
"
and
the word
? ".
copy
if,you
"
expand,"
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marks
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reread, I supplicate
you
me.
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would
reflect
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on
too
to write
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them,
"
on
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little time
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wholly re-written,and
expanded
that
so
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possible,if
as
I fear the
for ; but
be called
be
this volume
over
ILKLEY.
to
present volume
the
merely
as
will have
largerbook
My
AT
RESTING
subjectwill
to
another
be too
75
not
waste
edition
perplexing,as
general public.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Yorkshire.
Ilkley,
Sunday [Oct. 23rd, 1859].
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
'
of it
which
and
that
but
saying
that
I believe
you
growing
You
cannot
You
could
!
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I had
not
at
much
round.
I lived
partly by
should
"
if a
(though, no
embracing
me
you,
am
straight
the
see
of
sheet,
so
three
weeks
delude
pray
humdrum
plant were
I have
yourself by
science."
to
But
that, I have
"
say
clever
not
idle, as
I have
Lyell,yourself,and
partly by
the
theory
errors) would
such
three
exceedingly
he
Australian
with
Flora.'
so
round,
come
world
might
Selection
condition, and
prevail. Nothing
men,
so
ago, that if
Natural
its present
come
I
reflections,
own
all the
of
had
year
Huxley
their
thinking,above
for that.
enough
from
doubt, imperfect in
that
to
Lyell pleases me
ultimately
many
I read
prodigious amount
about
book, and
that
it
reading
much
idle
are
remain
I remember
what
life,
and, by Jove, I will stop growing."
all inferred
see
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completelya
little difficulty
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stickingto
as
say
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my
rail,but
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even
to
to
help yourself;you
weeks
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comfort
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all my
not
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in
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passed.
am
interested
look
I have
it is
me
be
have
it must
wish
you
shall
thought.
gentleman,
day
(and deeply
labour
congratulate you
in fact finished.
being
through),that
"
much
will
ever
diversified
176
THE
knowledge, and
by
of
I know
; but
me
well
Huxley's opinion of
what
to
he
But, how
have
been
intensely curious
to
hear
fear
of climate
changes
land
I will send
you
and
he
You
addresses
and
have
me
it
Murray
says
anxious
to
think, for
the
to
pretty
With
I think
(do
not
so
say
Lyell
him)
to
theory of
his favourite
in the relative
changes
to
; but
am
supportingfact.
me
on
view
abroad
go
list,and
close
will be
generallyknown,
and
Doctor,
(when wanted),
enclosed
the
towards
as
as
title,
initials
the
on
by
specified
men
add
to
as
Von, and
or
names
soon,
all the
to
kind
so
copies to
get my
opposed
forgiveme.
period :
given
due
idle I
must
Glacial
book
my
be
you
the
it is much
water.
Monsieur,
Professor,or
discussion
long
my
how
see
you
has
being
copies of
would
for
view, as slightlystaggeringhim
positionof
or
has
unconsciouslyhates
But, perhaps, he
all
on
to
made
share
letter that
your
am
truth,could
convert
as
[1859.
me.
running
am
enjoyed
so
respect
for
larger the
disgust him
said to
once
search
here
much
book.
my
Classification will
on
how
SPECIES.'
OF
to
of you
spoken
self-thought. I
own
your
well accustomed
so
I have
greatly.
err
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
WRITING
of
this week
ready.
not, I
let
hope
am
and
personalconceit
mere
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Ilkley,
Yorkshire,Oct. 25th [1859].
difference
Our
.
"
power
letter.
I
am
"principle of improvement"
on
of
"
adaptation
If I
am
wrong,
right,our
is too
I
difference
profound
quite blind
am
will
be
got
on
re-readingcarefullyand reflecting
supplicateyou
improvement
presuppose
or
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or
of
to
our
read
for
these
my
over
error.
my
only by
first four
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"
"
it
power
of
by
If
your
chapters.
so-called
cattle,pigeons,"c, does
principleof improvement
to
discussion
and
not
adaptation,"
requiresonly diversified
859-]
NATURAL
and
variability,
creature, is selected
When
element.
deny)
can
you
always
seem
you
natural
that every
it be
improvement
an
I suppose,
adapted
excellently
improved, and
look
we
will be
of
exterminated
improvement,
of
compatible
with
ment,"
improve-
not
relation to its
without
without
implies,
all
organs,
each
will have
become
to
can
the
certain
As
or
complex,
more
forms
; and
how
see
species is
increased,if
there will
intervention
of
All this
fitted for
forms
and
of
improved, or they
no
see
principleof improvement.
direct
"
selected
parts
many
of forms
course
other
and
do
be
functions.
will become
forms
necessityfor
for their
the whole
to
obtaining
the number
as
rejected
; any
left a fluctuating
advantage. Improvement
or
form
each
life ; any
or
species in
can
any
selection of each
modification
of life. No
be
those
nature
strugglefor
(for I
in that
of
77
is useful to any
selection
overlook
to
speciesimplies improvement
conditions
the
injuriouswill
nor
contrast
you
under
so
injuriousis destroyed
useful
is neither
which
is
advantage
and
to arise,
preservedin
or
which
him
to
chances
which
take
or
useful
are
slightmodification
modification
select
to
man
which
modifications
SELECTION.
other
any
seems
to
and.
quite
me
simple conditions,
as
you
the
as
far
as
myself,that
older
real
time
pleasureto
will go
geologists admitted
you
me
you
of
think
"
Natural
tion,
Selec-
Improvement."
you
existinggeologicalcauses
If at any
Natural
generalconsequence,
go,
judging from
slowly
second
change
can
much
your
further.
grand
views
any
question,it is
to write.
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
VOL.
II.
on
answer
Yours
How
178
THE
WRITING
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
C. Darwin
SPECIES.'
OF
[1859.
J. Murray*
to
[1859].
Ilkley, Yorkshire
My
Sir,
DEAR
copy
"
received
have
and
infinitelypleased
am
kind
your
proud
at
the
the
and
note
of
appearance
child.
my
I
quite
really
too
Are
Would
be
it not
better
fully satisfied,
the
printers.
Thank
you
to
friends
my
for
much
Norgate
have
I will
that
the
send
to
were
you
soon
offered
to
good
whenever
to
as
do
of
Do
Messrs.
as
to
all parts
the
their
quite
MS.
undertake
copies
to
trouble
not
Williams
and
best, and
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world.
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like.
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badly composed
possible.
as
yourself
8s. ?
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pay
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me,
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and
yourself
to
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for
and
unintentionally
the,
not
you
about
propose
about
generous
corrections.
be
all you
to
agree
the
am
glad
so
publication
of
my
book.
My
dear
Sir, yours
sincerely,
very
Darwin.
Charles
P.S.
"
the
before
I
for
on
Please
do
not
several
you.
do
copies
know
weeks.
not
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when
forget
let
to
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me
about
two
days
distributed.
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shall
Whenever
leave
I
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this
in
place, certainly
London
will
not
call
i/9
V.
CHAPTER
PROFESSOR
BY
To
OF
RECEPTION
THE
the
present generation,that
Charles
hither and
the
on
stands
Darwin
Michael
Faraday
it
as
most
famous
teeth
of
sign
of favour
honour
envy,
have
upon
who, in spite of
the
him
any
the
to
listen with
patience and
reasonable
objectors.
And
with
closelyas
nothing
crush
to
seems
it
in the
power,
uncheered
by
official fountains
of
sensitiveness
to
dealt otherwise
and
end
of his
to
days,
the
clear of all
than
injusticewhich
respect
by
globe,with
that
generation than
to
the
among
fairlyand
showered
was
he
ready
was
to
of
insignificant
most
life peoplingour
as
place
unfairness
while,
genius,industry,
acute
an
think
They
native
the
and
malice, nor
hatred, and
his
sheer
by
of
ideal of
grand
Nature.
of
earned
appreciationfrom
or
excused
justlywith
age
the
few
name
of Isaac Newton
popular prejudice,and
blame, and
praise and
might
of
one
as
of the
men
gale
those
combination
rare
people a
thirty,the
interpreterof
unswerving veracity,who
and
of
bore
who
"of him
alongsideof
SPECIES.'
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say, the
is to
side
thither
searcher
'ORIGIN
THE
ON
years
HUXLEY
which
of Newton
be
any
vehemence
further
attempt
with
from
to
Darwin's
the
up
theory of gravitation,
the
smother
of denunciation.
is bound
name
mind
of the
it with
"
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present
ridicule
or
strugglefor
N
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existence,"and
words
and
the
of
his
deductions
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them
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no
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'
; wherever
instruction.
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less
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oldest
and
of all
into
cast
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of the
any
welcomed
credulityand
generationsof
claimant
most
who
of the
emergence
of hated
and,
enlisted
I do
hate
of
not
there
hand
millennium
life-
new
the
itself to
order
of
be
things
the
accepted by
think
the
world
of
any
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name
it is
"
of
'
as
of
the
candid
has
But
the
'
Origin of Species
has
in the
have
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ears
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long
prioriphilosophers.
or
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only
attitude
of Evolution
combatants, trained
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the
century.
champions
the
speculationsof
that
in the
times,
thought, from
nineteenth
; and
body
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of
signs
of the modern
the
to
vehemently
But
The
bound
proved
been
PhysicalScience, whose
the truth
the very
have
the
many
Darwin
by
deaf
remained
has
ideas
burst, and
the universal
the
of
of
event
formidable
school
deny
as
effective weapons
fabricated
were
of
studies
throne
portentous
most
bonds
vestigato
in-
course
Biology.
poured
philosophyof Evolution,
the
to
; the
which
by
Darwin
are
men.
one
any
limbo
schemes
of
during the
Greece
adequate expression
more
To
frame
of ancient
thought
revivified
than
ancient
the
into
the
Darwinian
Evolution,was
darkness
utter
of
realms
of
that
philosophies,
scholasticism.
theological
blood
as
the
profound, beyond
foot and
of
influence
the
has
far-
of the
path
it permeates
taught
are
and
biologicalsciences
they
Nor
their vast
'
of
Origin
the
growth
potency attributed
doubts
one
reaching significance.Wherever
studied, the
full
of
those
than
doubted
more
portance
im-
founds
Darwin
which
on
processes
multiplication
; and,
and
to
natural
the
realityand
The
every-day conceptions.
household
become
selection,"have
Natural
"
OF
RECEPTION
THE
ON
those
asserted.
deny
of
solidlyseated
person
its
George
as
the
He
will
may
pretensions
the Second.
Hanoverian
'ORIGIN
THE
l8l
SPECIES.'
OF
deal
to
antagonists
the dullest
with
of bad
meaning
of
Nature.
Their
have
given
Genesis
heresy, and
thus
and
ingenuitiesof
of
the
sufferer
and
core,
traditions
my
amused
made
(in truth
Darwinian
the
at
Either
courses.
are
acquiescence,or
of
in the
vain
texts
torture
of Science.
Genesis
than
it
except
the
inclined
about
held
now
least
at
at
any
ago.
of
the
scientific
but
can
would
similar
In
fact, the
which
documentary
think
my
ravel
out
all
in
; between
theologians of
the
burst
out-
1858-9,
when
the
new
belong, is
so
dreams.
known
be
I
to
startlingthat,
sometimes
have
which
and
evidence, I should
memories
the
day
present
in
the
contrast
upon
the
been
expressions of
estimation
quiescence,of
be
have
public opinion
the
all sides
on
to
repositoryof
is, a
terrible hubbub
between
generation to
to
able
vener-
is honest
passages,
condition
antagonism
for
when
But
origin,claimingno
century
order
self-respecting
older
of its
the expense
truth,
scientific
cruel
more
made)
was
present
views
of
two
damnable
energiesin devisingthe
these
a
question ;
Darwin's
of
plain meaning
antique sincerityof
of unknown
what
quarter
the
between
pitthe plain
to
teach
to
itself.
no
finishes
think
by
possessingnone.
pen
to
opinion
the
be
of
one
the creed
always reasserts
authority and
As
their
is over, the
professes to
venerable
broken
if it were
as
the record
confess
dure
peineforte et
have
cautious,representatives
more
reconciler,and
them
less
no
meant
was
veracityof
the
making
or
ceased
Evolution
they expend
or
the
refugein
Genesis
the
save
authority;
hope
taken
that
they deny
candid,
dealing with
have
be
to
are
almost
against
more
up
bones
that thcv
see
words.
theologianshave
the
Even
to
come
adversarywhose
an
amount
no
have
"
if they choose
follies,
to
great
write
take
our
the
182
RECEPTION
THE
ON
I should
by),and
trouble,by and
OF
be
is reciprocal
feeling
; but I am
dealingswith Darwin
may
prove
for
We
Mr.
have
Darwin
attention.
not
the
even
an
On
the
the
among
the
day
him
justlyearned
I doubt
public.
better
with
to
if there
there
that
the
certainlyno
afforded
such
Yet
men
that
had
to
better
malignity and
the
it
was
majority of
poured
from
good
the
'
or
before
there
was
not
aware
'
when
that
the
of
had
been
passages
the article
acknowledged.
affords
no
judgment
the
had
to
of such
for
fortune
most
character
authorship
publicly
the kindliness
to
know
notable
criticisms
oblivion
and
; and
should
with
truest
years
constituents
of his work
of these
any
; but
I must
overcharged to
dishonour, than
July i860*
I wrote
Confession
say
respect ; and
companied
unac-
with
which
Darwin
which
ancient
make
present
the article in
Since Lord
Mr.
the
of
more
piecejustificative
no
be listened
of the kindest
seem
by penitence,however,
ground for mitigation of
; and
with
loth to rake
am
may
is
QuarterlyReview
worthy
these
general
choose
might
had
misrepresentation,ridicule,and
be
to
which
more
'
impertinences.
one
their well-deserved
and
generation,
purpose,
good
the multitudinous
statement
the
livingwho
personal
shameless
my
the press.
from
scandals
he
discussed
whose
portion of
ever
away
pass
tion
posi-
Naturalist
spiced with
was
our
on
safeguard againstattacks,instinct
denunciation, ceased
the
anything
man
ago,
assured
an
then
man
any
play.
dis-
to
zoologicaland
of
Voyage
profound attention,and
was
have
was
that
to
claims
no
wide-spread reputationamong
question as
had
our
originalinvestigatorsof
and
'
story of
like them
charming
right to expect
such
on
his
that
that,thirtyyears
excuse
eminent
most
; while
I should
had
geologicalinvestigations
assured
great hindrance
novice, who
obscure
was
which
wisdom
our
be
to
the
veneration
glad
Brougham
sailant,
speaks of his as(Vol.II.
Wilberforce
PP-
Bishop
emplification
exan
325 1 329, 332) is so striking
of his singular
ness
gentle,
'ORIGIN
THE
assailed
shallow
this
expositors,of
flighty
"
dealing with
have
been
ignorant
fruits
"
of
of
the
of
the
fail to
flavour
blood
this
and
the
leads
Theology,
proviso
Science
devotes
that
he
by
the
pages
Darwin's
creation
of his
cannot
word
its
to
the
to
theory
life,and
"
him
of
keep
to
Revelation
exposition
contradicts
Creator," and
epoch
the
who
is
flowers
"
; of
parative
com-
entirelyseparate
from
he
of
themselves
ask,
can
the
Nor
between
to
the
;"
what
"
corpuscles into
does
the
reviewer
tlieologiatm. Some
consent
of
"
odium
conflicts
"
of
science,
con-
ratus
appa-
that
"
of
all favourable
men
peculiar to
equals,
poison
shape
evaporated
outpouring
the
"
of
objectionto
an
that
talk
affirm
be
to
alter the
of the
historyof
of
become
can
gravely
can
physiology,
be
can
little stimulation
of
of
the
inkling
Astronomy, Geology,
retreat
test
"
his
the
by
open
the
of Natural
truth
revealed
is "inconsistent
that
relation
with
Mr.
of the
the
fulness
glory."
If I confine
of
of
Darwin's
Is it credible
he
utterly
mode
"
or
intelligence,
to
scorn
his
up
of
mighty talk,which
the carboniferous
of animal
of life could
which
"
exact
to
up
whose
Mr.
of
as
candid
most
prop
and
of
tending
snakes
rudiments
advantage
he
venomous
high
of
utterlydishonourable
"
as
want
ask,
can
that
to
so
plants of
ordinary laws
the
whose
"
one
paleontology,that
of the
the
in
turnips are
anatomy,
of
all this
views, he
varieties
and
And
writer
both, is
Darwin's
reprobated
indecent
of
or
so
and
speculation,"
from
proceeds
Mr.
and
Science."
Natural
would
guess
is
most
is held
endeavours
"
in Science
and
age,
83
specimen
of the
one
who
nature
such
Master
person,
of
fabric
rotten
to
which
other
no
of reasoners,
any
"
to
or
seen
pretender
cautious
observers, most
as
has
production, in
remarkable
this
of
of
insolence
the
world
the
Young,
Dr.
SPECIES.'
OF
Species
'
to
my
a
retrospect of the
twelvemonth,
or
receptionof
the
thereabouts,from
'
Origin
the
time
84
ON
of its
and
I do
publication,
unmannerly
of
'
GeologicalSociety might
lacked
the will, or
follow
to
'
eked
the
immense
But
had
scientific
greater
less
such
among
entomologist
the
and
of
author
respect which
of
some
the
"The
Darwin
botanist
of
forms
presented by
of
"
Until
shown
those
that
to
who
from
the
universal
one
facts
have
have
they have
been
of
Nature
mistaken
collected
a
happens,
'
are
by
them, and
different
meaning
to
the
'
Origin,'I
find
repute ;
all
Edinburgh Review,'
distinguishedand
consents
that
Mr.
treats
to
to
Darwin
the
go
tone
with
therefore
him
consider
theoryas
in its
mistake, untrue
its
chievous
in
its
scien-
facts,unmis-
and
method,
tendency."
'Journal,'July i860,pp.
Extract
Contributions
of
generallyassigned
now
I shall
in
'
or
excellent
an
considerable
scientific
154.
of the
twelvemonth,
the transmutation
man's
of
good faith,of
Murray,
them,
tific
writers
by
grateful contrast
from
consider
evidence
Pictet, the
primary form
of all the peculiarities
existingnow
made
have
not
livingbeings
among
the slightest
impressionon my mind.
derivation
in the
favor
in
to
survey
paleontologistof Geneva,
arguments
this
internal
Agassiz ;
Darwin.
to
with
too
theological
to
profitable
more
bore
article
an
learned
when
Louis
widely
while,
on
case
publication of
Harvey,
strongly adverse
which
the
critics
masters
biologicaland
acknowledged
were
Restrictingmy
thereabouts, after
of
covered
the
they
as
knowledge required
inevitable
pleasant and
more
competency
authors.
far
so
of railing.
by superfluity
reason
authority, or
or
be
to
'
But
it.
themselves
the
Origin
'
Dublin
lamentable
in
range
prejudged
criticisms, which
those
their
of
it will be
the
seems
as
lack
out
wit, to make
through
which
the
to
critics had
possessed
they
grounds, and,
Darwin's
the
article,unless,
competition with
any
geological science
commonly,
into
hardly
him
Professor
'
to
of his doctrine
Reverend
Quarterly reviewer,
resemblance
either
the
'
Review
enter
foolish
anything quite so
Quarterly
Mr.
of
large proportion
OF
recollect
not
the
as
address
perhaps, the
RECEPTION
THE
"
from
to
the
the
3rd
Natural
States.'
Silli143,
vol. of
His-
'ORIGIN
THE
only
that
time
him,
pillarof
the
Dian, after
at
though
Darwinian,
Nevertheless, he
was
truth
as
for
stand
As
.honour.
the
among
battle
less
here
without
Law
which
; the
p/wase, I
United
time
share
John
of
call to mind
not
who
fought the
who
was
no
and
self.
my-
the
his
On
of
promulgation
of the
reading
small
be
essay
of
it
New
plete
com-
On
the
Species,'
afresh,I
the
was
the
influences
'
powerful
how
infinite
Lubbock
Introduction
recollect
caveat.
him
regulated the
to
Sir
his courageous
Hooker,
enumeration
am
mention
astonished
in
do
Gray,
States
in the
published in 1855.
was
Asa
present
selection,no
the
has
which
been
the
direct
the
at
serious
strength,and
than
far away
of natural
work,
at
his
in
looked
himself
was
from
have
may
putting
of
tower
biologistsmore
Wallace
theory
without
to
(who regarded
declared
affair),
sans
evolutionists,
vigorous
hand, Lyell, up
Athene
Endymion
other
Pallas
as
not
splendidlyin
apart
the
l8$
anti-transmutationists
the
afterwards,
ever
On
way.*
little
very
SPECIES.'
OF
have
impression
it made.
In
the
"
of
former
everlastingfame
"
moussante
of
other
*
"I
no
see
.selection
"
is said
serious
"
members
to
objections
of varieties
of
have
to
by inventing
Evolutionism,!
powerful
formation
the
for
whom
the
to
the
tions."
'
"
Sur
Charles
world, and
existing
earlier epochs are con-
Sc.
de
de
The
"
"
to
la science
of the
ill-will
Institut,produced for
Par
by
Flourens,
himself
of
nothing
natural
in the
damned
nickname
say
that,so far as
be assumed
cerned, this law may
allied
to explainthe originof closely
and
"
of
and
la
de l'Espece.
l'Origine
Darwin.'
'Archives
des
BibliothequeUniverselle
of another
small
243, Mars
of the
i860,
effect
academic
epigram,
theory of
the skull is said to have been nipped
in the bud in France
by the whisper
of
so-called
an
academician
vertebral
to
his
pensante"
neighbour,
head
was
86
ON
time
long
before
that the
reproach
of Darwin
name
; but
man
declared
in the
the
I do
of
course
interval
other
they
learn
to
in i860
by
of
*
next
to
wrote
been
held
me,
offered
an
which
be
all
right,your
rate, insufficient.
or, at any
that
at
of
council
who
man
council
time, we
should
have
And
there
in his
in
influence
E.
August
pressinghis general
gathered
on
Bar,
i860, exvon
assent
to
evo-
lutionist
M.
views.
les
enonce
Darwin
shown
to
the
now,
It would
nature.
stands
of the
general
overwhelming majority.
an
K.
biologists,
to
gust
dis-
undoubtedly trying
may
supporters
that,if
exactly contrary
Darwin
felt the
is not
However, the
modern
lutionists,
evo-
There
numericallyextremely insignificant.
that, if such
an
the
were
conviction
of
views
slightestdoubt
doubt
conclusions
of this
price,and
have
for
learning.
moiety
latter
must
sive
exten-
cause
one
any
It is
cut.
all wrong,
are
that
The
foundation
shorter
the
of
add
may
Mr. Darwin's
scientific had
be
by
land
speculateon
they
that,
its most
in the
mean
by
no
notability
dreamed
us
have
at
'
Origin
originof
ape
philosophers at being
were
would
orthodox
experimental
reached
the
of
deductive
'
scientific
None
distinctlyheterodox.
for them
On
to
that,though your
reasons
"
priori^already,and
and
had
of
as
natural
inductive
that any
; Bronn
of the
the
Revue
'
consider
to
upon
illustrations
presume
of
lent
excel-
an
strength(and perhaps I
biologistswere
moiety
jokes
Darwinismus
brilliant
most
German
the
the
"
the
on
in the
Origin
translation
mind
foreigner
may
curious
to
'
'
time
publiclyin i860.*
weakness) of
a
the
took
his
cut
call to
not
himself
and
If
'
Kladderadatsch
'
and
of
Germany
Bowdlerized
slightly
be found
to
the
accomplished writer,out
an
Mondes.'
produced
not
was
many
itself from
influences,M. Laugel,gave
appreciativenotice
Deux
des
However,
silence ; and
of
redeemed
Academy
of academical
and
conspiracy
the
OF
RECEPTION
effect of
the
passed
years
THE
memes
"
his
more
Church
been
is
demned
con-
little
as
would
decree
indicate
lack
"
phrase, J'ai
His
idees
que
329), is
.
(vol. ii. p.
subsequent writings
than
this.
'ORIGIN
THE
of sense,
well
as
of
as
modesty,
less
men
fair-judging-
different
that
from
follow them
is
to
risk
the
run
it.
answer
of
just
other
in
I know
and
judgment
so
who
fair to those
and
interestingof
do
to
all
I shall
I must
so
if I tell my
appearing egotistical.However,
have
I must
1846
upon
the
read
and
me,
with
done
impressed
with
it better
which
childish
my
cost
me
of
that
than
that
"
former
I find
period,this
it made
universe
in
preferred),
existent
in
and
reasonable
creation
of
Milton
be it from
me
six
truth,
from
But
free.
say
of the
word,
now)
does
is
perfectly
in existence
some
that
; and
if
days (or instantaneously,
the
appeared
so-called
not
to
some
pre-
priori arguments
'
not
sense
because
the
of
now,
of the
account
Paradise
the natural
devoid
I have
raise to the
in
be
to
me
then, and
it is untrue
of
Deity, against
plants given
that
my
presented
which
of the volition
I had
and
to
been
Divine
as
(as it
then
me
not
was
vividlyembodies
so
had
and
purely philosophical
to
prioriobjection to
animals
which
instructors,and
and, given
acts,
foundation.
the smallest
time, I had
that
doctrine
on
now,
as
against Theism,
creative
At
struggle to get
consequence
Being. Then,
of
possibility
with
in imagining that, at
difficulty
no
its appearance
that is
little impression
very
1850.
It seemed
land
Eng-
conceivable.
which
made
in respect of any
reasoning.
I left
before
understanding
if it professed to be based
itself,
scientific
'
cosmogony,
many
unbiassed
was
after
authority of parents
it had
mind
book
brought
not
was
Vestiges
the Pentateuchal
upon
all the
'
'Species'question until
long
Far
successors
people.
I think
the
at
in order
that
own
their
the
afraid
am
of that
men
led instructed
of the most
reallyone
the
than
arrive
to
$?
to
which
causes
seems
with
ascribe
to
honesty
day
which
That
that
questions connected
try
the
possess.
SPECIES.'
OF
Lost,'in
of Genesis.
it is
impos-
88
ON
sible.
and
I confine
to
be
to
me
And,
same
belief in
of
way
of
for Evolution
the
the evolutionists
to
the
Herbert
then
prolonged
even
these
had
to
the
friend's
stand
my
time, the
the
causes
made,
was
reallydo
In
1
not
those
not
afforded
and
the
and
me
drive
from
me
grounds
to
who
Mr.
adequate
the
state
at
that any
see
had
Vestiges
'
any
good
ground
As
irritated
any
; and
me
influence
the
only
time, I
Treviranus'
of
attentivelyand
neither
changing
my
of them
negative
confess
that
prodigiousignorance
the
manifested
of mind
on
phenomena.
justifiable.
was
; but
care
been
had
that
at
I
'Vestiges,'
by
habit
the
Lamarck
for
for the
wholly
was
heard
even
due
that
to
up
which
explain
to
studied
with
unscientific
it had
against Evolution
'
of
suggestion respecting
no
conclusion
never
I had
that
firstly,
knowledge
other
But
topic.
agnosticposition.
assumed,
of
and
copiousness
my
me
think, in
transmutation
of
way
simply
If
and
in any
thoroughly
writer.
skill
favour
critical attitude.
book
known
this
dialectic
transmutation
the
to advance
friendshipwhich,
on
of the
days
read
to say
interruption. Many
no
we
two
upon
Biologie.' However,
I had
nobody,
word
made,
fought
rare
in
of
back
Looking
had
calculated
not
acquaintance
battles
evidence
insufficient ;
with
met
the
Within
185 1-8.
exactly
and
entered
were
my
appears
time, a thorough-goingevolutionist,was
same
happy
am
advocacy was
Spencer, whose
1852, and
I
his
Outside
knowledge
at
that
of
that time, I
at
biologists,
and
"
cause.
was,
originatein
which
who
except Dr. Grant,of UniversityCollege,
whose
the
statement
being perfectlyfair,I
give
to
answer
the
that
evidence
did
plants
modest
highly improbable.
by
the ranks
regarded as
be
particleof
and
of my
OF
must
some
animals
condition
what
request for
existingspecies of
as
RECEPTION
myself to
reasonable
way,
THE
at
me
review
ever
all, it
have
by
set
the
me
qualms
'ORIGIN
THE
about,
of conscience
I wrote
one
the
on
the
on
to
the
reproach to Lamarck
to
With
respect
question in
below
later.
century
wholly
to
In
been
half
reduced
to
carried
him
beyond
Lamarck's
lightsince
by change
reads
the
afterwards
takes
up
far
in relation
But, by
me
to
subject,as
to
'
as
consistency,he
to
plants.
But
on
I do
irony
had
logy
physio-
studies
the
other
been
of
species
"
the face of
not
brought
suggestion as
one
think
in
to
to
the
effort excited
to
it,inapplicable
that any
the
Bacon
of
fate,the
impartial
who
and
first
greater
traditions
perhaps more
promulcon-
logical
applied them
the advocates
of his
claims
in
any
central
establishment
buccinator
tantum*
influence
which
speculationson
recorded
this
potent than
have
of
himself
assignsto
same
fundamental
with
rise
distribution,
and
had
"
Darwin
gated Lamarck's
ceptions,and,
his
that which
in the venerable
Erasmus
which
higher place
chapters of Genesis,was
*
of
plied
prodigiouslymulti-
physicalscience generally,
put
of
than
curious
evolution
biological
led
was,
"
much
half
given
created
obsolete
were
gradual modification
of conditions
Lamarck
1809,
species-mongering in 1850,one-
mere
Moreover
his time.
(publishedas
of
whose
biologist
any
of evidence
who
to
To
vegetableworld.
the whole
judge
order.
been
Species
histologyand
facts
no
elucidation
relations
the
the
been
is
for it in
plants had
had
sense,
said
time
their
of the
knowledge
and
is
savagery,
classes
of the
cause
of
animals
arguments
or
various
be
the
geographical,had
half erroneous,
the
of
interval
that
and
of
level
89
that influence.
under
might
reconstituted
geological and
had
the
in the modern
embryology,
needless
Philosophic Zoologique,'it
conceptions of
new
had
while
of the lower
the structure
'
work, whatever
that
miserably
was
'
of
ground
Vestiges
'
SPECIES.'
OF
any
failed to show
other
that he,
Species.'
of
the
'
Origin
of
in
alive
keeping
after
all,would
of
reader
fact
that
principle,
far
fact,that,so
globe
our
believe
but
"
than
to
home
brings
the
to
The
than
fact,no
reads
one
better
was
the
the
I cannot
"
For
much
as
would
the chief
be
consistent
in the
organic
species by
new
which
vastly greater
Lyell successfully
by
carefully(especially
of this than
aware
earlier
of the
any
great
geologicalspeculation.
sober
from
myself,was
origin of
of those
any
Darwin.
evolution
postulates
any
for
for
when
explained by
ber shown
can
road
be
of the
cause
ordinary agencies
eliminated
one
be shown
Lyell,for others,as
that
catastrophe
If
must
such
no
goes,
"
In
and
nearly thirty
been
it
past
inorganicworld.
in the
other
that
afresh
recently read
had
knowledge
our
as
uniformitarianism
as
and
the
cause
smoothing
in
agent
book
remarkable
present,unless good
on
I have
Evolution,
the
"
that
'Principlesof Geology' ;
everybody's hands,
in
years
OF
conviction
pious
true.
out
of the
this
that
consider
of
sort
turn
first edition
the
RECEPTION
THE
ON
igo
editions
light of
the
of
the
Lyell
the
'
himself.
f
'
Principles
series
interesting
of
letters
it
recentlypublishedby Sir Charles Lyell'sbiographer),
is easy
to
see
to Lamarck,
that,with all his energeticopposition
which
was
beyond our comprehenprincipleand the
sion ; it remained
result from
fact guide and
for Darwin
to
same
historical
accumulate
that
all sound
there
is
no
investigation.
proof
break
of
is
between
the
Greece
Grote's
and
the
a
'History
incoming
that they are
intellectual
the
outgoing species,
product of the same
work
of
and
of
not
movement
as
evolution,
Lyell's Principles/
special
creation.
claims
f Lyell,with perfectright,
"I
had
this position
for himself.
He speaks
certainlyprepared the
in
this
"advocated
law
of
of having
cona
country, in six editions
way
of my
work
before the
in the organicworld, so
even
tinuity
Vestigesof
Creation'
far as possible
without
adoptingLaappeared in 1842 [1844],
of
transmutation.
for
the
marck's
theory
receptionof Darwin's gradual
and insensible evolution of species."
But while I taught that as often
*
The
same
'
'
'
"
as
certain
forms
of
for
plantsdisappeared,
to us,
intelligible
place by
virtue
animals
reasons
others
of
took
and
'
"
Life
quite
Haeckel,
their
1868.
causation
and
Letters,'Letter
436. Nov.
vol. ii. p.
to
23,
'ORIGIN
THE
the
on
hand, and
one
the
Agassiz,on
disposed to
natural
speciesof livingthings by
natural
In
time,
same,
which
process
of
Lyell speaks
in Lamarck's
doctrine,he observes
"
impossiblewill
How
which
beyond
passed
never
In
"
regard
find that
glad to
through the
on
rather
class
certain
be
only
be
to
to
his
In the
directed
be
"
doctrine
own
same
sense,
see
regard
this
to
from
He
as
plainlyas
what
me.
he has
reallyundergo !
lay
down
line,
species have
on
in the postscript
Herschel
John
in
subject
.
while
to
said
"
very
carried
offend
what
would
on
the
ground that,by
of fresh
is inconsistent
he
; and
leaves
it
speciesbeing a natural,
in contradistinction
to
miraculous
to
any
address
philosopherwho
the
public
on
at
every
step
attempts
these
to
terious
mys-
unfortunatelyopposed
I left this
causes.
tion
ii.,
am
be
it may
in words
to
1836
species,I
new
probable that
goes
of animal
If I had
of the introduction
Sir
the letter
Herschel
done
he
involved
occurs
passage
against him
remember
you
in his letter to
though
man
extinct
of uniformitarianism
last
set
from
"
of intermediate
[thechanges
and vegetablespecies
to another]
one
And
originatedby miracle, he
:"
In
it
7, 1837, vol.
March
his
expresses
by embodying
of persons
been
1827),
2,
personal freedom
his
thinking it worth
inferred,not
Whewell,
p. 5
think
intervention
leavingspeciesto
with
to
speculation."
have
which
you
; he
Lamarck
originationof
the
to
for
ones."
into recent
letter addressed
creation
March
(dated
so-called
the
have
incomprehensible.
to be
distinguishand
it be to
present
he would
of
name
some
But
pithecoid origin of
the
at
strongly-
was
theologicalgrounds.
on
evidentlyalarmed
is
the
Mantell
to
theories,and
objectionsbased
mind,
own
causes.
imagined
Lamarck's
delight at
any
he
letter addressed
keep
to
I9I
quasi-progressionismof
of
origination
for the
account
liked,at the
ideal
the
to
SPECIES.'
OF
to
ii.
192
ON
be understood
to
OF
RECEPTION
THE
that he had
the
on
replied,
not
of his
ground
Lyell'scontemporaries
his
esoteric
and
reading
that
of
Whewell's
doctrine.
Sciences,'whatever
its
In the
might,
of
encyclopaedicMaster
of
creation
successive
the
of
economy
described
nature,' but
we
offspringdifferent
an
the
speciesso
in
created
"
than
rather
the
requisiteto
once
or
at
"
hypothesisthat
an
think,
in what
it appear
'the
of
regularpart
nowhere,
so
ment
depart-
the
the
species from
produced
of
without
that
many
us
in this
a
of these
one
parents ?
the
in
Or
are
Are
they
Or do
they
parents?
substance
to
creation
times,
so
of
of
the
selection,is
considering.
are
taken
of
Natural
of
causes
The
bare
place,whether
it is unconnected
as
organicalsciences, is a tenet
than of PhysicalPhilosophy."
hypothesis,
known
the
specieshas
long
of the
for the
place it among
chapter we
creation
forms
evidence
others, with
entitle
change, which
conviction
selection
Some
which
has
embryo
graduallyevolved from some
suddenly start from the ground, as
poet?
within
the
by
aspect than
the
uniformitarianism,
constitute
place
to
are
species created
of
make
to
as
worth
of
he
Inductive
always
other
no
Trinity observes
speciesmay
this process
of science
new
that
at
Mr.
"
is
speculativelimits
of his discussion
course
of the
History
under
inklingof
some
value,
philosophical
of the
evidence
highly-placeddivine
will.
'
if
always interesting,
an
without
not
were
with
our
rather
Theology
The
earlier
justand
perfectly
"
of
intervention
Herschel
shows
*
Whewell's
the
that, in his
'
Deity
own
vol.
History,'
whereas
mind, Lyell
iii.p.
the
meant
letter
to
natural
THE
causation
could
see
man
in
now
form
some
The
other
or
of
the
on
"
point:
I have
that
Oct. 3,
long
'
of Man
case
most
seen
has
clearly
made, all
made
and
one
the
and
the
and
plants,
were
ii.p.
"
for
him,
ago
which
more.
spoken
out
such
I find
of my
half
am
in
were
"
to
man's
broken
un-
brutes,and
convertingnot
win,
against Dar-
arms
against
speaks of havinghad
are
even
He
abandon
beyond
even
the
out
I have
now
old and
long cherished
1863
clusion
con-
as
me
theory,
that it was
at
told
forty years
ago,
that Cuvier
II.
from
appointed
dis-
speak
that
and
convictions,
of feeling as
state
my
Man.'
farther
go
to
quences
conse-
the
first made
VOL.
not
not
present
Hallam
that
me
his
viction
con-
thought species
science
could
not
terms
ruined.'
fortified
real,but
Darwin's
to
only say
as
on
not
do
can
Huxley."
follow."
his arguments
'
1863 (vol.
9,
'
I do
or
known
un-
to about
[Lamarck] came
me
thirtyyears
against the great impression
that
was
William
by
one
purely
15,
that
seen
Antiquityof
much
[Darwin] seems
with
he
man
in
the
ideas,which
March
have
Hooker, March
361),in reference
if
365).
I remember
without
that
to
Darwin,
ii.p.
(vol.
doctrine
transmutation
about
feeling
to
To
that
of the
so.' "
and
a
creation,'all the
must
of
few who
imaginaryone,
'
the condition
descent
that
admitted
instant, [instead]of
word
that of
same,
be
causa
vera
efficiency
me
and
the
might
"He
always feelingthat
long hesitate,
the
1859 (ii.
325),
Origin.'
advocated
advance
To
if any concession
is
claim in your concluding
you
that
pithecoid
life,he entertained
championed
"
first readingthe
on
the
in
passages
decisive
to me
appear
"
Darwin,
To
have
doctrine
following
Lyell'sletters
this
of his
discerning eye
of
corollary
inorganicnature.
to
The
he
stoutlyas
193
organic world, as
reference
doubt
inevitable
he would
"
causes
to
SPECIES.'
profound antipathy
of
reason
the
for
"
OF
no
avoided
have
originof
a
; and
'ORIGIN
See
the
letter to
P-
"I
think
but
course
if Lamarck's
yours
the
much
as
of
are
sentiment
Darwin, March
:"
angel
arch-
"
same
363
almost
it,of 'the
old
11,
views
new
the
1863,
'creation'
requiredas
it takes
in
is
ever,
form
improved by
adopted."
O
Smith, that
kinds
successive
fossil
of
No
nature.
of this
many
from
the
that
only occupants
if any
of natural
to
now
is that
would
had
"
"
was
evolved
get free
to
whether
from
his
hinder
the
even
of
Master
doubt
No
inorganicmolecules
therefore
*
Whevvell's
ductive
be
may
f
Ed.
the
In-
ii.,1847,
must
tinued
long-conbelieve
must
extinction
of
in
species,
which, therefore,
; acts
four
that
say that
without
have
lion
does
been
is
to
it
doubt
courage
equal
"
to
of
conceivable, and
such
an
event
vol.
or
"pawing
of half-a-ton
concurrence
But
"
that
or
permit myself
would
But
Rhinoceros
"
Trinity'swell-tried
"
first.
parents
;
he
be said
can
rejectedthe
to
And
questions which
live rhinoceros
possible.
History of
Sciences.'
must
we
some
like Milton's
I
moral
the sudden
into
by
substance
ground
"
the
geologicalepoch
one
produced
parts
and
physical,intellectual,
this feat.
the
embryo
the
And
species,and
already cited,all
was
some
from
started
suddenly
"
before
the courage
for instance,
ticJwrJiinus,
either
seem,
not
globe.
of
and
certainlyhave
would
did
one
with
the passage
reallyhave
he
in favour
of time
it would
else,we
or
of nature
plied him
he
miraculous."
decides
Lyell in
puts
anew
another
causes
course
had
of
of creation
acts
common
one
those
into
Dr. Whewell
us
organized species of
properly call
may
to
of the
of the transmutation
the
successive
of the
tive
Induc-
of the earth's
course
others,which
the
presents itself
agency
out
'
spectacleof
the
us
intervals
vast
planet,and
transmuted
many
at
our
were
of the
plants disappearing,as
and
then
to
opens
have, in the
other
each
exist, becoming
suppose
of
speculativeconsequences
the historian
geology
specieswhich
of
face of
dilemma
of
study
animals
the
the
law
"
"
history,succeeded
of
firmly established
than
different
by
'
groups
set
characterised
are
forth
set
better
generalisation
But
"
strata
has
OF
RECEPTION
remains, became
one
Sciences
we
THE
ON
194
lie
the
'ORIGIN
THE
in its
belief
bounds
the
within
"sufficiently
evidence
indeed, imaginable,
assertion
of the
In view
of
(often repeatedin
had
that he
fifth alternative,
in addition
dawned
not
Dr. Whewell's
upon
result
species may
new
upon
individuals
present
historian
the
of
before
of
the
'
their causation
scientific ideas
But
1858.
of
Origin
The
that
"
as
stated,has
suggestionthat
of external
which
specifictype
"spontaneous,"because
is
as
it
was
unknown
wholly
the
the
contains
to
biological
specialists
to
suggestion is
and
Species,'
to
possibility
action
their
call
we
nothing
that the
selective
from
which
and
"
ignorantof
are
the
earlydays
four he has
mind.
the variations
conditions
we
from
the
to
the
added
to observe
Lamarck, it is very interesting
of
attainable,or,
any
oppositionto Darwin)
of the
195
probabilityto justifythe
strength of
the
on
occurrence
SPECIES.'
OF
central
idea
quintessenceof
Darwinism.
have
must
other
had
If
wiped
up,
out
thoughts
of
set
one
advanced
shape, I
accuracy
of
which
had
to
myself
me
to
succeeded
of any
want
the
form
saying
bby an
another
of
that
means
And
the
Deity ;
by
His
ideas
not
only
unable
the
of
facts of
in
eminent
specieshad
to
succeeded
vote-catchingresolution,with
to
admit
more
the
paleontology,
"
could
Neither
law
by
did
it
continuously
be
no
more
another, in
"
no
specieshad
to
me
correctness
that
one
"
had
that,I
anatomist
seemed
life
founded, but
time, in virtue of
That
He
took
testingthe
besides
of
appalling
an
as
many
incarna-
that
and
explanation explained.
operativecreational law."
than
from
forms
were
be told
one
the globe
this
what
see
the
deductions
confess my
means
that
the
explanation^them.
of his
help
found
grounds,by
embodiments
soon
that my
me
same
me
of the
these
to
seems
was
the
Agassiz told
geologicalcatastrophe as
upon
on
successivelv tenanted
of successive
tions
taken
been
persons.
which
past, it
critical expectancy
positionof
own
into the
to
the
please the
O
196
THE
ON
of
man
I took
well
science,and
defined
received
"
current, but
had
has
the
possibilityof
all
the
transmuta-
transmutation
"
so
be
to
tenabilityof
with
do
to
for the
up
the
So
Goethe
which
usually defended
stood
the orthodox
among
the orthodox.
draw
to
tJidtige
Skepsis
"
doctrines, when
tionists ; and
OF
all men,
things to
"
creational
"
that
refuge in
RECEPTION
already
needless
com-
bativeness.
I
in
remember,
Mr.
between
natural
imperfect knowledge.
had
then
been
; and
the
and
puzzled
hard
for
work
Sir
as
to
"
all
probably a
tion
species-ques-
four
his
gentle
five
or
what
understand
years'
it meant
Bunbury (under
them)
of
are
this
except
for
four,"I should
counterblast
Wollaston
and
of
nothing
; and
Wollaston
that
Charles
the
date
of
"
they (allfour
last week
time, that he
accompanied
seem
to
me
Huxley, Hooker,
When
and
youth
that
over
which
it would
enabled
had
at
aware,
of
absence
not
Lyell,* writing to
"
smile
But
confidence
brooding
years
was
me.
not
in the
and
with
the lines
sharpnessof
groups
all the
was
humorous
such
that
answer,
many
first interview
my
belief in the
forms, with
transitional
of
course
Darwin, expressing my
of demarcation
of
the
tilt
prepared
Sir
to
against species
"
go."
the fact of
beyond
have
to
ran
Charles'
meeting
distinct
thought my
Wollaston's
Darwin's
at
were
Mr.
assurance
ontrectiidance
conservatism.
was
With
I have
about
thought seriously
contemporarieswho
very
both
much
in
own
my
and
Mosaists
*
'
state
of
mind
Evolutionists,
Life and
"
Letters/vol.
"
of those
most
the
ii.p.
matter,
inclined
plague
212.
of my
on
to
were
say
both
to
your
'ORIGIN
THE
! " and
houses
disposed to
fact.
of ascertainable
that
still
1858, and
effect
them
upon
his
goes
such
could
as
pin
not
to
get
hold
The
'
sought.
by
I do
and
such
think
of
stupid not
Columbus'
the egg
for
idea of the
have
The
heart
; but
of the
much
'
Origin guided
as
would
the
no
to
be
the
final
of
be
be
we
freeing
accepted
ready,
answer
later,we
year
being perplexed by
of that !
'
"
myself
How
tremely
ex-
I suppose
when
same
he
that
made
of the struggle
variability,
suspected that
the
the
and
notorious
were
road
to
the
until Darwin
beacon-fire
of
benighted.
particularshape
applied to
prove
the
could
Origin/ was,
dispelledthe darkness,
'
Whether
had
us
to
validitytested.
can
conditions,
to
but
wanted,
I first made
the
facts of
We
Wallace
and
of
none
'
thought
said
end.
on
for
when
reflection,
companions
stand
that
else had.
dulness
known
of
to
1857, I had
one
existence, of adaptation
enough
the
with
to
refuse
In
could
causes
service
to propose
you
certainly
working hypothesis
immense
"
that any
central
the
the
the
reasoner?
inquiry. My
an
master
have
ourselves
reproached
with
us
no
road
which
their
have
who
but
speculation,
conceptions
facts and
the
man
not,
work.
other
any
definite
it did
what
not
or
had
reveals
or
in
papers
to
operation of
actuallyat
the dilemma
cautious
any
and
face with
from
be
suppose
were
the
that
provided
hypothesis,and
straighthome
we
to
to
Moreover,
ever
him
proved
to
'
light,which
night, suddenly
assumed
faith
our
Origin
for
be
face
Wallace
and
and
fertile fields
'Origin' in 1859,
flash of
which
which
of clear
brought
the
in
organic forms,
the
dark
That
way.
Darwin
of
the
it takes
find, was
not
us
of
in
which, whether
the
interminable
therefore, further
may,
97
an
labour
to
that
more
lost himself
has
And
publicationof
the
aside from
turn
fruitless discussion,
apparently
SPECIES.'
OF
which
organic world,
or
not,
was,
to
the
doctrine
took
me,
of evolution,
in Darwin's
a
matter
hands,
of indiffer-
I9S
ON
In
ence.
that its
which
were
more
the
to
up
which
remained
discern
the
of
thrust under
creation
our
probabilitywould
had
could
be
made
elucidate
the
be
that
which
do
have
there
say
is
far
as
than
views.
learningof
of
the
whole
all
for those
course
truth,was
its
to
what
see
capacity to
break
of
of
than
produce
to
under
down
common
sense
The
day.
result has
scientific
world,
present generation. I
leaders
of
science
biological
; but
workers
active
I do
think
not
of
this
generation,
evolutionist,profoundlyinfluenced
an
Whatever
hostile
goes,
the
theory.
it
all the
not
can
be
In
the
ultimate
the
by Darwin,
critics has
which
be
may
forth
fact,of
solitary
Darwinian
prove
dictate
Darwinians
knowledge
my
links
particulartheoryput
so
multitude
is other
the
of
it would
the
"
purblind eyes,
rational
the
speak,
in the dilemma
attainment
carried
themselves
the
Darwin's
surely the
to
patent,
to
so
were,
able
it would
surprisingto
so
to
mean
among
the
Either
sense
seem
of the most
our
only
or
organic life,
was
some
working hypothesis,and
it.
common
avowed
that
who
of
been
us
the
than
of
incompetent
of
complete volte-face
must
not
as
This
for once,
sn
"
the facts of
strain.
and,
object than
Darwinism
"
accept
The
of nature.
other
no
be
Darwinian
none
greater, that
from
should
critical doubt
every
probable
obvious
was
hidden
were
insecurityremains
force remained
immensely
causation
phenomena
who
be
causation
natural
the
It
nothing?
or
natural
what
noses,
that
facts,until they
natural
as
produced varieties
more
had
we
long
so
suggest, the
of
significance
paramount
notorious
if
to
not
and
any
incomparably
hypothesis. And
creation
that
But, with
I ventured
insecure
or
'
Origin
was
scepticalingenuity could
my
'
breeding had
present time.
hypothesis
and
logicalfoundation
in selective
experiments
OF
of the
earliest criticisms
my
point out
RECEPTION
THE
I venture
to
fate
them
of the
affirm
to
that,,
all the
ingenuity and
enabled
by
adduce
prodigiousvariety and
com-
there
reached.
of
the
But
moon's
SPECIES.'
are
multitudes
from
any
may
be
same
motions
into
of
said
of every
have
other
astronomers
yet
class of
cannot
yet get
with
perfect accordance
99
phenomena
we
generalisations
that
I believe
objects.
natural
the
deducible
not
are
OF
'ORIGIN
THE
the
theory
gravitation.
It would
the
hitherto
be
difficulties
the
met
puzzle him
to
this brief
unresolved
and
and
evolutionist,
for many
history of
there
But
if it
even
inappropriate,
two
are
character,based,
three
supposed
or
be
to
foundations, which
theological
the
early days
have
though they
now
and
The
most
up
then
deserted
reinstate
that he supposes
that the
and
the present
at
great work.
general
more
philosophical
loudlyexpressed in
were
answered
of
course
which,
controversy, and
and
over
again,crop
over
day.
when
Tithonus-like,
attempted to
said
been
Darwin's
based, upon
Darwinian
have
live on,
which
the
in the
come,
r.
cuss
dis-
probablycontinue
objections cf
and
of
will
which
receptionof M
or
which
problems
generationsto
the
possible,to
were
existence,and
thus
old
the
"chance"
"
have
with
long
having
It is
goddess, Chance.
pagan
to
force
Darwin
charges Mr.
variations
fittest survive
and
sense
about
come
chances
"
"
of the
is substituted
for
by chance,"
stru^crlefor
providential
designIt is not
should
little wonderful
be
brought against a
again,warned
his readers
he
that which
for
answer
"
is
piecesif
to
merely means
so
the
illimitable
to
those
chance," is
termed
that such
who
writer
he
that when
that he
; and
an
is
accusation
has,
ignorant of
whole
whose
who
to ask
talk
them
is denied.
But
of Darwinism
what
they
the
this
over
"
taneous,"
sponof
cause
theory crumbles
of
uniformity and regularity
past ages
and
over
the word
uses
as
natural
probably
meaning
themselves
causation
the
best
the rei^n
understand
of
by
200
"
ON
chance."
Do
conceive
been
that
has
event
any
predicted by
had
If
Nature?
inheritors
of
antique superstitionand
have
The
thought.
the confession
in
validity,
the
by
universalityof
of the
all times
of causation.
confession
of the
case,
susceptibleof proof.
not
reasonable
; because
and
the
whose
scientific
science,is
to
of the absolute
and
act
an
the
truth
But
such
sole
the
are
of
faith, because,
of such
propositionsis
faith is not
blind, but
invariably confirmed
it is
constitutes
is
insightinto
ray
convert
have
not
who
they
order
all
under
and
This
nature
by
faith in the
of
act
one
could
ignorance,and
illumined
been
never
they really
sufficient
it is
they do,
of
minds
and
order
the
Do
cause
cause,
who
one
any
no
in this universe
anything
without
or
reason
OF
that
believe
they
without
happens
RECEPTION
THE
by
ence,
experi-
trustworthy foundation
for all
action.
If
of these
one
remoter
of the
himself
to
infinite
;
dash
of the
against the
look
the
before
of
rocks
; let him
up
of sunshine
as
the
note
or
the
and
they
play
it falls upon
as
and
one
who
the
man
of his
as
divinity. But
of
the waves,
rainbow-glinton
consequence
a
sufficient
not
note
in the
bubble, which
of the ascertained
knowledge
of the
laws
the
at
and
chance
thither
bubbles.
penetralia
that
there
here, as
is not
is other
of nature
than
or
is supreme,
the very
knows
answers
myriad
; that
scream
the beach
hither
entered
of science
betake
out
and
roar
their
is manifested
has
within
note
colours,which
that
our
breakers,as they
drive
of
him
him
down
torn
he will say
the knee
be
tossingwaves
listen to the
Let
scene.
their foam-crested
it is cast
chance-worshipof
size of the
and
flakes of foam
the wind
gleam
watch
form
shingleas
at
and
curves
the
the shore
varietyof
or
of the
when
sea
whom
thus
ancestors
reach
sea
people,in
; and
necessary
that with
conditions,competent physico-
'ORIGIN
THE
skill could
mathematical
of these
one
/every
second
ventured
offer
to
arguments
have
be excused
for
such
as
we
with
made
it in man,
the
precisestructure
that
there
"of the
the molecules
universe
the
perhaps
the
dered
ren-
Teleology
and
both, which
facts of
the
that
supposes
eye,
higher vertebrata,was
of
is
undoubtedly
not
to
member
re-
touched
is not
actuallybased
upon
the
propositionis
This
Evolution.
that
the
vapour,
and
that
of the
is
living,
much
sufficient
the
certaintyas
of the breath
vapour
The
....
not,
one
on
I should
now
mechanist
say
will
the
the
like to substitute
in
ledge
knowhave
1869, with
happen
On
views
to
the
powers
of nature
is, the
speculator
the word
cosmic
day
the mechanical
exclusive.
less
no
of that vapour,
what
cold winter's
and
teleological
true, it is
of Britain
fauna
can
necessarily,
mutually
purely
If this be
the molecules
primitivenebulosity
intelligencecould, from
of the
state
the
in
lay potentially
existingworld
propertiesof
predicted,say
of which
composed.
was
certain
of
teleologywhich
wider
world, livingand
possessed by
more
But
mutual
are
proposition of
"
Nevertheless, it is necessary
Evolution, but
of
doctrine
fundamental
as
is
it
possesses
its death-blow.
received
the
which
my
philosophy of Biology
of the
one
or
as
Teleology.
teleologywhich
The
animal
observed,
explanationof
the
and
since
subject,and
reconciliation
see
enablingthe
the
to
the
no
of
is the
Darwin
offer.
his views
by
service
this
on
formidable
most
forms
coarser
Mr.
Morphology,
years
remarks
is the
remarkable
by
nearly twenty
reproducing them.
and
most
eviscerate
yet received
as
of Evolution
commoner
It is
views
Teleology, and
abolish
some
predict,
Darwin's
Mr.
objection to
design.
from
argument
indeed
events.
common
very
was
"
201
for, and
account
chance
"
SPECIES.'
OF
for
more
"
firmly
forces."
202
ON
does
he
the
completely is
more
can
primordial molecular
phenomena
The
OF
he
the
are
thereby
always defy
him
arrangement
was
the
at
to
not
consequences,,
disprove
that
intended
to
of trains
of
mechanical
by intelligent
appointment
doctrine
follow
of
Evolution
their
leader,or
at
reasonable
libel upon
that
left to
the
rate
into
attend
to
remark
theistic
than
shift for
that
But
weeks,
an
cock
quite certain
able
to
watch
The
weighty
has
no
"
the disbelief in
from
of
kept
do with Theism
that
quite certain
cock
hen
nor
it
; and
chicken
shell
evolution, from
found
in it.
transparent
were
of the
young
we
for three
It is also
should
of
'
xxiii.
structure.
Natural
be
microscopic cellular
complication
"
conditions
proper
will be
formation
and
It is
Anti-
is neither
to
more
no
it advisable
renders
Evolution
neither
Genealogy of Animals
('The Academy,' 1S69),reprinted
in
Critiquesand Addresses.'
'
to
plainest consequences
has.
contains
if the
the
to
well
do
which
simply has
any
hen
that
process
as
or
by
It
egg
is
egg
of
doctrine
of Euclid
certain
as
if such
modern
persistence with
the
the
draw
to
Theistic.
nor
fresh-laid
is also
at
power
his
to
and
of
appurtenances
itself.
the
normal
antagonism which
an
to
by
doctrine,that it is anti-theistic,
might perhaps
people refuse
many
beforehand
might
successors
the
foundation.
his
any
reasonings,before rushing
in action
kept
be
may
accepted the
proleptically
; and
evolve
difficulty
no
dispositionsfixed
and
this
of the universe."
acute
result
of the
mercy
champion of Teleology,Paley,saw
admitting that the "production of things"
in
of which
arrangement
who
teleologist,
the
RECEPTION
primordialmolecular
phenomena of the universe
assume
all the
and
THE
germ
Therefore
Theology,' chap.
'ORIGIN
THE
millions
analogous
and
from
Butler, as
with
the
of
attributes
Evolution
be
must
of the
explicable than
that
them.
even
come
into
it
about
of
In
created.
has
created
the
philosophicalTheist,
from
existed
the
All
the
the
real
or
of natural
causation
'
Paradise
lightening Adam
and
had
been
by
the
educated
laboratoryof
by
in
modern
would
the
a
the
from
of
flow
have
found
whit
of
the
the
of
man
mysteries
think
out
Theism.
the
from
are
doctrine
knowledge
of fore-
"
universality
The
science.
the
the
task
of
en-
ledge,
Fate, Foreknow-
if their pupil
difficult,
more
"
university.
In
problems of Philosophy,the
not
attributes
the
Real-schule
"
to
; and
theologian,as
'
has
mechanism,
is Providence
assumed
Free-will,"not
itself to
Eternal, Omnipotent
an
surely from
as
Lost
fact, it
of
matter
theologicalequivalentof
The
order
upon
of
the
upon
physicalscience
determinate
assumption
Deity.
follows
of
little lamentation
philosophersbegan
as
with
of Genesis.
logicalconsequences
universe
assumed
angels in
the
conceptionof
of determinism
based
the
at
sophical
philo-
solitaryproblem presents
that
and
in the
Omniscient
scientific
not
as
not
conception
imaginary perplexitieswhich
of the
equally involved
talk and
time
logicalgrounds
conception
and
Not
none.
consistent
be
the
of the book
theologicalscience, as
has
less
nor
collide,and
it does
religiousdifficulties which
the so-called
And, if
more
considered
which
opening
greal deal
consistent
Being exists,
also
must
theologicalspeculatorshave
in the
be
a
is neither
Theism,
with
That
argument
Evolution, therefore,does
of
with
contact
historynarrated
is
chicken,
an
attributes.
absolutely inconsistent, is
is
creation,which
There
if such
universe,which
of
must
those
with
in this
on
instances,wherever
borrow
to
Deity,
doctrine
The
doctrine.
which
the
of
happens
now
consistent
with
Therefore,
that which
203
actually going
millions
and
exist.
living creatures
is
strictest sense,
Evolution, in the
SPECIES.'
OF
and
trained
in every
respect of the
great
ON
204
in
one
were.
has
of
THE
RECEPTION
sense,
exactly where
They
remain
the
of
advantage
is
known
islet in
of
Our
inexplicability.
reclaim
the
and
little
glance
solidity of
the
at
that
potent
most
realm
of natural
since
the
'
Origin
It
received
badly
rise is sad
probably
the
of
and
The
that
crumble.
the
extent
cursory
during
the
extension
of
into men's
hands,
is
Principia,'
the
Darwin's
the
vented
to
Let
of the
them
the
truth
Or, it may
the
old
holdingit.
same
will
also
bottles
prove
as
to
new
bad
did
not
language
wherever
discover,as
do
not
alter
though
even
it
those
facts,
texts
their
history repeats itself,
discover
vintage
they
some
wrath
truth
will
unaffected
be, that, as
if
speedilyperform
as
follow
new
remains
universe
to
the
chieflyin
kind
man-
convictions.
and
day
my
are
exactly of
viewed) the
ancients
itself
should
Darwin
of
generality
the
of
men
was
present generation
if another
us
it
to which
nonsense
the
that which
charitable
opponents
the
of angry
which
to
scolds.
happy ingenuity
for
the
But
and
strategic right-about-face,
of Darwin
is to
justifythe assertion,
come
'
badly
recollect
much, and
sanctimonious
leads.
to
even
generation
upon.
them
than
better
no
to
And
to
has
the
by
just as
the
"
them, then, be
come
which
ocean
generation
something
Newton's
think
to
behave
hate
most
behave
intellectually
illimitable
an
every
for
means
solutions.
sham
biologicalsciences
outpouring
inflict upon
arise,and
Let
add
instrument
knowledge
will
in
the
Species.'
was
it gave
of
century is sufficient
publication of
of
midst
of the
with
infinite ;
possessions.
history
a
of certain
business
our
last quarter of
the
the
present generation
provided
unknown
land, to
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the tyranny
stand
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'ORIGIN
THE
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sent
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published.]
was
Lyell to C. Darwin*
October
DEAR
this year
edition
subsequent letters
earlycopies of
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Ilkley,near
at
father's
first day."
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is
Abstract
1st, 1859, in my
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"
first edition
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of October
date
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just finished
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take
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soon
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propositions. So
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concession
is made,
will follow.
of other
and
the same,
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animals,and
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much
Organs
"
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in
time
to-day,
just leavingthis
am
varietyof comments,
delighted with
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as
the
"
Oceanic
and
Islands
genealogicalkey
to
of the
word
at
in
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least,omission
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word
p.
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case
or
how
to
the
on
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I should
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slight alteration,
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two
say
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"
even
so
instead of
the
insert
his races,
and
for one,
admit,
of which
cirripedes,
concluding pages
me
and
plantsis one
effective
an
occasional
and
prepared
clearlythat
made
has
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well
so
in your
is this which
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and
of abstract
most
seen
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be admitted
condensation
will
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fullyexpect,
published will
when
justificatives"
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of
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substan-
long
; the
pages
pigeons
granted,that
for
of facts
I have
as
am
on
use.
number
vast
facts
your
reasoning,and
many
your
here
may
concerned, I
am
as
excellent
such
mean
called
of close
proofs appear,
such
exemplification,
till the
grand generalizations.
many
detailed
your
which
lived
but
great perhaps for the uninitiated,
too
[1859.
time
prepared all
had
you
important preliminarystatement,
before
for
arrived,though you
throughout
argument
and
have
never
splendidcase
SPECIES.'
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to
ground
you
'ORIGIN
THE
hundred, when
which
OF
be
still
possiblein
that.
In
the
first
place,at
it cannot
surely be
said that
lyell's
1859.]
the
naturalists
eminent
most
congratulations.
You
mutability of species?
regard
to
animals
to
laid
doubt, have
no
organisms.
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speciesand
for
The
present.
crudelysuch
eye," not
some
by
analogous
means
immeasurably
power
himself.
avails
"objectionand
persuade,to
in
edition
future
down
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reader, and
,are
pages
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has
bring
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required;
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eye
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state
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witness.
recast
and
But
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are
comparison
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human
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460, there
him
called
before
to
upon
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state
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bathos
to
but
sentences, and
fully.
of
by
cattle-breeder
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rather
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better,as
are
sentences
small
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published copies of
livingnaturalists."
the
ants
of "the
or
working ants, in
shock
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these
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abruptly and
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have
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time
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to
amplify.
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little omission
of
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be
gives the
reason,
required
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purblindness,
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ated
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to
formation
of which
it out
these
have
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first and
so
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and
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man's
out
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passage
recovered
believe
forth
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nothing.
say
be
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it.
remove
may,
mutabilityof
the
superior to
would
Pages
to
like those
by superinduced variation
the
contending
important summary
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startlingobjectionas
of
changes
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appealed
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in
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for volition
volition ; he
universal
also
G.
theory
those
on
for the
was
of his school
first page
adversary
little
men
you
his
in
introduce
link
genealogical
(Do
selection
but
of the
say, that
may
comparative
too
view
ignore
to
mean
natural
varieties.
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latter,
you
undue
least
at
the
not
physicalconditions,and
in
not
extent,
could
an
rejected the
do
substitute
you
plants he
of
changes
to
considerable
certain
As
Lamarck.
and
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have
207
matters,
letters
mere
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retained
in
on
the
words,
480, the
sun.
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are
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than
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is
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cumstance
cir-
new
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in the
other
in old
sheets
be
Madeira
the
the
so
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work, believe
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I wish
all their
paid
man
who
Paris,from
can
prove
valley of Seine.
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day
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With
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time
ample
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on
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colonists, which
new
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.
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birds,like those
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rudimentary
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in Madeira
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me
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sound,
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Madeira
'ORIGIN
THE
on
you
grand
your
me,
Ever
affectionately
yours,
very
Chas.
C. Darwin
to C.
Lyell.
Lyell.
Ilkley,
Yorkshire,
October
My
much
LYELL,
DEAR
I thank
you
time
writing
valuable
of your
3rd, and
"
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in
4th.
to Scarborough.
proof-sheet
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"
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barrister
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how
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so
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missing
thankfully
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work
the
I show
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side
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most
little trouble.
of
long
line with
adopted
last
eye
in structure
complex organs."
tell the
the
the
me
I have
with
[1859].
for giving me
cordially
I wrote
in the
corrections
minor
nth
best
eminent
to
Chancellor
win
the
naturalists
to
cause
was
LYELL'S
859.]
there
is
detected
I have
written
excuse,
that
have
omitting
But
for
once
difficult to
most
was
their
struggledin
be
modification,for
be
much
disturbed.
that
not
they ought
in time
they have,
Madeira
all,let
decide
me
what
settled
mutual
not
relations
you,
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some.
kept
an
omit.
to
country, would
their
believe,been
as
say
homes, when
undergo
to
as
But
have
discussion,which
new
much
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one
own
subject to
would
no
right,
arc
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thought
in
in full.
out
it
Birds,which
in
blundered
it ;
209
peculiar. You
not
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out
screw
Birds
Bermuda
and
Madeira
CRITICISMS.
and
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constant
the
believingthat
(freshblood
the crossed
likelyto
be extra
survive ; thus
of Creation.
I cannot
"
strugglewith
the American
Look
at
the
the
which
unbroken
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European products,which
conquer
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aborigines. So
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all,I
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result
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sure,
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to
will understand
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(though
to
types
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does
II.
not
naturalised
aborigines
non-indigenous
in mind.
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thus
dogmaticallyfor brevitysake.
VOL.
way.
affinity
near
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on
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American
not
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created
be created
ground
have
view
on
speciesif
in every
[plants]are
(belongingin large proportion of
important always
genera) is most
for
aided.
that
untilled
most
crossingin keeping
the
point diametrically
and
of the
be the
American
forms, would
Facts
would
be much
the world.
see
with
agree
American
type.
covered with
to
effects of such
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immigrants
new
old colonists
say),and
would
ample ground,
are
the
vigorous,and
the
to
of
offspring
would
breeders
as
specieswould
same
Moreover, there
E. V. Harcourt.
letters from
write
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On
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
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Creation
continued
of
which
implies no
if
monad,
unaltered
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generallybe
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little from
but
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fitted for
it
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prototype
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be
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might
be
seems
(?!)to
have
"
am
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not
you
does not
sure
above.
of
creation
assume
any
must, under
of
or
attributes
and
except in
selected
or
convinced
far
preservedis
otherwise
that
how
it would
I
in
natural
I would
selection,
faith in
it,as I
cannot
that fresh
which
power
remarks
your
of
same
which
manner
of any
some
not
addition
an
have
such
been
that
believe,
as
of
the
sophers
philo-
without
judgment
new
which
advantage
additions
rejectit
"
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powers
"principleof improvement,"
character
way
in my
"
follow
as
of attraction
power
every
required
say,
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man
as
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as
higher
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you
creative
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in the
forces;"or
so
may,
wholly superfluous.
me
subsequent
any
as
So
few forms
explanation. But
ordial
prim-
the existence
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and
might
creatures
of earth-worms.
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simple
one
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one
extinct
primeval
its
The
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might
monad
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to
profit
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seem
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Moreover,
habits
assume
with
act
not
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simple forms
of
Must
alive !
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not
fitted for
this
living and
advance
How
parent monad
and
present
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occasionallydegraded,
forms
creations
all
in
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more
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to
? if it did
offspringof
the
tendency
monad
unaltered
survive
perfectlywell
become
living.
tion,
Selec-
the
to
slow.
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advance.
no
Age
slightand
complex organisationprofita
profitableto
though
complexity of organisation,
simple conditions
is
the
before
long
day.
in
from
doctrine
theory of Natural
in its structure
simple conditions
excessively
its
This
"
[1859.
tendency to progression.
necessary
deviation
no
Monads.
the
superfluous(and groundless)on
SPECIES.'
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is
naturally
or
ment,
improve-
selected.
to
the
rubbish,but
if false,
it would
If I
were
theory
I have
of
firm
explainso
LYELL'S
859.]
explain.
to
seems
of
classes
whole
many
211
facts,which, if I
far
As
doubt
illustrations,
you
CRITICISMS.
I understand
as
the
it
in my
am
remarks
your
it
senses,
of gradationsof
possibility
and
lectual
intel-
looking to existing
animals
lectual
alone, that we have a very fine gradationin the intelof the Vertebrata,with one
rather wide gap (not
powers
of corporeal
between
half so wide as in many
cases
structure),
and
if civilised as much
an
Ourang, even
say a Hottentot
mentallyas the dog has been from the wolf. I suppose that
Now,
powers.
can
of each
being
in the
difficulty
no
species thus
intellectual
most
inherited
mental
going
with
on
the
If I understand
point.
be, that
must
of
powers
show
very
has
lowest
the
theory of
at
Natural
much
I would
know
not.
intellectual
parent
one
admit
I have
tinued
con-
intellectual individuals.
reflect how
impossible
latter
lower
stage of perfectionthan
I think
; how
in
given
the
explanationholds
good,
new
that
ever
will find
of
have
to
seem
the
but
so
of
the
additions
Embryology,
that
us
Classification,
you
addition
the
; the
and
call in "the
the
this
difference
our
Selection,if it requiresmiraculous
If you
explanationwhich
discuss
to
give absolutely
nothing for
stage of descent.
from
races
improved by
most
less intellectual
animals
in
savage.
one
any
yet found
attributes
same
much
effects of
now
turning-pointin
be
of
intellect of the
space
graduate,just
the lower
and
man
minds
is not
of the
selection
individuals
as
impossible that
speciesshould
how
one
every
there
it
; if so, I
this process
at
; the
man
you, the
think
you
natural
of
But
important
as
probably by
look
of
races
exterminated.
being
To
exercise.
the
; and
aided
improved,
are
corporeal structure
as
speciesbeing continuallyselected
new
me,
doubt
do not
you
to
seems
logy,
Homo-
appeared
parent
little
we
degree, the
Embryology, Homology
it difficult to
no
creative
say
further;here
forces."
thus
we
I think
P
far
must
you
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212
will be driven
rejectall
to
fault,and
it is my
certainlycomfort
said
think
me
sound
The
common.
I dare
"
might
My
; the
species of
and
exterminated
will
not, I
adapted
As
being
man
his
by
I
forests.
me
so
of climate
hidden
as
"
that
Sydney
Equator.
so
of
from
each
all the
its
"
reasons
important
species being
new
species having
new
beg
on
instructive)
said, even
you
the
often
case
to
to
of
escaping
or
certain
man,
given
in my
under
nature.
future
owing
not
the
to
Man-
to
cuttingdown
that
discussion,
It has
taken
ance
import-
being so conspicuous,
creature
swear
at
and
is
creature
the North
(I have
thousands
of
so
Pole,and
of
speak disrespectfully
reflect
it
group,
Ourang-genus
influence
to
beaten
are
climate,but owing
mind
my
dryer
the
or
least to
at
another
the genus
by
of
inferiority
inclined
am
but
groups
group
be the almost
strugglebetween
to
obtainingsustenance,
would
to disabuse
Smith
I
from
readilyeffected
years
that
i7i
inferiority
intellect,
inventing fire-arms and
is
are
perfect adaptation
species of
ourang
believe,from
many
whilst
speciesof
better
acclimatisation
facts
kingdom.
adapted
are
concerned,
in Liberia
intellectual
inherited
genus,
in
are
groups
of the genus
extinction
one
analogy
several
climate, but
white
and
the
guarded enough,
less
genera
less
advantage
enemies.
negro
most
the
by
the
to
been
of
from
and
but
single species,
think, generallybe
common
some
to
the several
when
; and
not
rather
hotter,and
climates
this will
apply
rather
I shall feel
mere
inheritingsome
not
letter
your
descent
separate
include
inferiority
remarks
genera
the
to
arguments
for each
I have
say
[1859.
theory'sfault,and
my
beaten
are
the term
not
by
case
conclusion, that
probable ;
physicalconditions
to
to
it
which
forms
I fear
in that
regard
the
in
judgment only
in my
all
parent, I have
makes
With
SPECIES.'
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; and
the
not
me.
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great
admit
or
alternative
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OF
found
the
nothing
plants in
the
lyell's
1859.]
middle
their
of
point
positivelyknow,
heat
and
cold,
although, if
[they] would
will
you
thousands
view
wrong
"
chapter;
cost
me
times, I took,
much
would
All
by
this
it
repeated
that
you
approve
at
the
labour
I believe
what
not
case,
that
believe,a wholly
astonished
I, on
was
clearlysee
but, until
as
in
destroyed
organisms.
pleased
be
which
were
of nature.
economy
so
often
so
am
more
numbers,
every
other
we
in vast
thus
in almost
obvious
very
of
you
We
as
little
inhabitants
ground.
of the whole
Hybridism.
this
think
perhaps
myself
to
other
which,
dry, but
exist
not
strugglewith
the
by
do
kept down,
are
climate,but
the
the
cover
numbers
their
of
and
damp
more
their range
many
and
withstand
perfectlywell
little
metropolis of
the
213
respective ranges,
can
criticisms.
the
was,
of
this
wrong
scent.
Rudimentary Organs. On
there
is
what
you
book
"
wide
"
nascent
the gums
of
elytra.
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be useless in
useless
Hence
They
may
be, and
then
and
function, which
organ,
be
though
useful
in
we
"prophesy,
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organ.
(as explained in
ancestor
an
Selection
having
often
they
have
are
the
Natural
cannot
tell what
organs
are
solelydue
and
discussion),
in
useful
development.
are
plainly
condition.
in for other
it has to be
organs
tion
Selec-
slight,tiseful
for the
plainly apparent.
of
fortiori,
possiblymake
been, worked
little developed, as
stage
organ
cannot
only rudimentary
is sometimes
every
my
flowers,
soldered
under
wings
developed state.
Natural
rudimentary
or
inheritance
bespeak
less
little
male
plainlyuseless,and
now
are
organs
modifications.
to
better, the
or
mentary
rudi-
through
cut
never
and
bigger
be called
not
teeth which
as
Selection
I call in my
acts
should
organ
"
what
and
in
papillae,
representingthe pistil
Apteryx,
they would
useless
it be
the
"
An
organs.
unless
wing
of organs,
Natural
Rudimentary Organs
between
distinction
call germs
theory of
the
"
now
poses,
pur-
original
nascent
developedmust
As
we
nascent
cannot
; and
214
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nascent
for
will
of
class
beingswith
with
perhaps,be
the udders
of
as
of
wing
wing
bird is
; not
that
I think
for
and
flight,
we
been
modified, and
with
its
in
reduced
the Os
muscles, but
The
wing
bastard
series,
they will
admit
To
theory of
I
bold
am
book
sake.
little time
and
But
think
you
Selection
forth,many
or
I look
before
your
"
closelyresembles
wings have probably
thus
often
is
it is
serves
as
rudimentary
low
very
double
or
certain
to
rudimentary tail.
and
down
in the
bifurcated
or
is tantamount
are,
is,in the
errors,
it worth
at
wing.
to
rejectingthe
mind
"
run
through my
sake
subject's
raising your
own
important
than
more
I expect you
enough,
to
know
that the
reading
will be
is almost
certain, though I
Do
other
occasion to write
not, of course,
think
of
includes,as
answering this
again,just say
whether
Natural
now
cannot
; but if you
my
perverted,
theoryof
; that
it
some
difficulties
main, safe
them.
for my
as
your
I shall
while
for the
more,
far
as
think
ever
of the
structure
Selection.
glad
If you
if you
have
nascent
so
organ
found
are
prophetic germs,
solving them
book.
be
rudimentary digit;
The
lung.
prophecy !
Natural
very
is
to
seen
again,as much,
own
and
be
that
birds
as
gives attachment
coccyx
if fossil birds
that
of
an
is almost
in accordance
selection,
Analogy
doubt
cannot
its
natural
by
distinguishingwhether
I believe
is
infer that
may
cirripedes,
fin,might
penguin
compared
bladder
swim
Ornitho-
in
certain
is nascent
as
with the
nascent
so
sub-aquatichabits.
nascent.
Here
and
adapted
believe
the
[illegible]
in
day,
developed,will
glands
as
certain
by
descendants
Ovigerousfrena, in
"
"
considered
this purpose,
guide
cow
branchiae
rudimentary for
small
little
but
organ
[1859.
the present
periodto
been
may,
nascent
are
important
down
handed
been
remote
SPECIES.'
OF
supplantedby their
developed. The mammary
well
rhynchus
from
any
generallyhave
organ
rarelyhave
organs
members
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
have, in
put
see
have
ever
I859-]
AGASSIZ.
slighta degree,shaken
so
With
of your
any
cordial thanks
my
215
for your
objections. Farewell.
letters and
long
valuable
remarks,
Believe
truly,
most
yours
me,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
what
think
you
; I
poor
often allude
You
"
about
not
got
it,but
fact
it
appeared to
idea from
or
C. Darwin
to L.
book
differ
any
sent
conclusions
it to
out
you
you
you
to
send
'
leave
to
to
under
will at
you
several
on
least
points
at
give
Louis
; but
bravado
or
of mind.
different frame
credit,however
me
neous
erro-
my
arrive
defiance
the
truth.
With
sincere
respect,
remain,
very
faithfully,
Charles
Jean
of my
copy
Origin of Species.'
arrived
wholly
Yours
[1859].
nth
November
the
I have
spiritof
think
may
endeavoured
beg
of
that I act
hope that
you
ventured
at which
extremely
me
Agassiz*
abstract)on
an
know
so
time
assure
I have
"
As
Sir,
DEAR
not
it.
Down,
My
; I do
work
to Lamarck's
"
Rodolphe Agassiz,
I have
seldom
Darwin.
been
more
deeply
Mortier,onthelakeof Morat
gratifiedthan by receivingyour
in Switzerland,on
kind
Lake
May 28, 1807. most
perior.'
Supresent of
in 1846,
He
I had heard of it,and had
emigrated to America
he spent the rest of his life, much
where
wished
to read it,
but I confess
that
it
and died Dec. 14, 1873. His
the
was
Life,'
great
very
of having in my
written by his widow, was
published honour
sion
posseswork
with
in 1885. The following
from
extract
a
your
autograph
letter to Agassiz (1850) is worth
a
a
as
presentation copy, that has
how
such livelyand
father
as
showing
sincere
giving,
given me
my
regardedhim, and it may be added
pleasure. I cordiallythank
you
towards
that his cordial feelings
the
for it. I have
begun to read it
born
at
'
'
great American
:
strong
to
naturalist remained
the end
of his life :
"
with
see
uncommon
will increase
which
interest,
as
I go on."
2l6
PUBLICATION
OF
'ORIGIN
THE
C. Darwin
send
a
"
of my
copy
Messrs.
(by
you
Species.'I wish
inadequatemanner,
derived, from
volume, I
portioninterested
you
remark
whole
It would
But
am
work
noble
induced
it will be
on
read
to
it is very much
if any
me
well
perfectly
the conclusion
intelligible
to
high gratification
disagreewith
entirely
will
be
you
that
and
straightthrough,as
be
you.
grand
Should
to
venture
the
studyingyour
only by readingthe
condensed.
to
me
and
felt,and
GeographicalDistribution.
my
permit
Norgate, booksellers)
(as yet only an abstract)on the Origin
do
to
this,as the only,though quite
to you the extreme
by which I can testify
I have
interest which
Williams
would
you
'
work
of
have
thought that
I have
SIR,
[1859].
nth
November
Down,
DEAR
[1859..
Candolle.
De
to A.
SPECIES.'
OF
that
aware
at which
I have
arrived.
years
did
you
ago
London
aunt
probably have
will
You
meet
to
wife.
of my
the
me
M.
quite forgotten me
honour
diningat
C. Darwi?i
very
Hugh
to
of my
copy
is
only an
If you
from
FALCONER,
its
November
on
read
it,you
[1859].
told
Origin of
read
must
extremely condensed
savage
you
long to crucifyme
*
'
the
nth
abstract.
Lord, how
will
book
I have
"
Darwin.
Falconer.
Down,
and
beg to remain,
faithfully,
Charles
DEAR
uncle
in
sincere respect, I
With
Yours
My
many
house
my
Sismondi,* the
Madame
and
of
but
will
state
through,otherwise
straight
it will be unintelligible.
be, if you
alive !
JessieAllen,sister of
it
Mrs.
read
I fear it will
it,and
how
produce
JosiahWedgwood
of Maer.
no
you
other
8 59.]
effect
on
become,
this
in
case,
217
in
you
this
slight
so
ever
fully convinced
am
With
species.
GRAY.
"
stagger
year
of
FALCONER
"
if it should
; but
you
degree,
CANDOLLE
DE
that
will
you
in your
and
audacious
presumptuous
conviction,
I
Falconer,
dear
remain, my
Yours
truly,
most
Darwin.
Charles
to Asa
C. Darwin
Gray.
My
Gray,
DEAR
yet only an
read
do
how
it,I shall
read
be
it,and
your
opinion
what
you
you
conceit
its weakest
of the
that
tellingyou
Geological
convert
Let
to my
me
add
not
with
Record
can
ever
you
note,
be
will
geologist,
you
that
on
the
fullyadmit
that there
explain so
are
excuse
of the
is
my
very
nearly
classes
many
these
of
theory
facts
of descent
that
as
grounds I drop
culties
diffi-
many
possiblybelieve
I cannot
certainlydoes explain. On
C. Darwin
to
of my
book
HENSLOW,
on
"
Speciesto
jf.S. Henslow.
I have
you,
it
anchor,
my
slowly disappear.
Down,
DEAR
false
I think
My
tremely
ex-
Imperfection
He
exaggerated.
value
tellingme
thinks
not
(as I
views
modification,but
believe
short
explained by
satisfactorily
theory would
and
not
are
you
me
sent
if you
If
send
(as
be
to
and
and
Geologicalchapters,
two
in
'
; but
to
time
out
screw
highly),however
think
for time
book
my
....
can
so
of
copy
Origin of Species
'
pressed
are
infinitely
gratified
grateful. As
my
directed
the
abstract)on
I know
you.
I have
"
[1859].
nth
November
Down,
my
told
dear
November
Murray
nth, 1859.
to send
old master
copy
in Natural
:2l8
[PUBLICATION
History;
OF
fear,however,
pupil
in this
show
the
The
case.
'ORIGIN
THE
that
of labour
amount
will not
you
book
SPECIES.'
OF
in its
which
[1859.
of your
approve
does
state
present
bestowed
I have
not
the
on
subject.
If you
have
trouble
what
time
point
to
read
to
what
out
best,it would
be
You
know
not
am
also
how
and
in
are
with
the
staggered,for
more
mind
my
has
reflection
this has
Yours
me
in
in
writing
few months.
merely
write
to
few
But
general
of
will become
you
been
dear
My
gone.
to
and
you
expect you
or
immutability
further
to
parts.
slighta
so
take the
judgment.
your
wish
the weakest
even
hardly expect) on
convinced
commence
value
to
aid
lengthy criticisms,but
remarks, pointingout
If you
to
highly I
as
weakest
seem
material
hope
unreasonable
so
detailed
would
and
carefully,
parts
most
my
it
the
am
and
more
through which
process
Henslow,
and gratefully,
affectionately
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
John Ltibbock. *
to
Yorkshire,
Ilkley,
Saturday [November 12th, 1859].
.
send
will
or
any
and
if you
yourselfthat
of
my
Mansion
to
not
received
wish
wholly
am
firstproved
to
dare
be due
*
The
say
to
when
no
Murray
Street,and
There
so
are
am
many
doubt
I cannot
thunder
secondary
told
hope
side,will easilypersuade
in error, and
ways.
House
against my
the other
on
I have
it.
Brighton.
to
you
asking me
weighty arguments
one,
in error,
for
for you
copy
surprisedthat
valid
much
you
that you
much
to
Thank
.
see
and
causes,
some
am
in part
the blindness
lightningwere
regrettedto
859.]
HENSLOW
give
up
hand
of God.
the
Farewell,I
219
by
caused
was
unwell
feelingvery
am
JENYNS.
"
flash
each
that
idea
LUBBOCK
"
to-day,so
Yours
no
the
direct
more.
truly,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
John Ltibbock.
to
Yorkshire,
Ilkley,
Tuesday [November 15th,1859].
My
I do
again.
making
in
LUBBOCK,
DEAR
wishing to
know
when
then
I do
'
we
to
Natural
this
old
under
dog
kind
our
hardly
and
fortnight,
roof-tree.
own
I could
Theology.'
myself.
as
admired
ever
invitation
sincerely for
you
under
not
"
hardly
thank
to
place,
rest
expressingmyself
accepted your
worn-out
leave
think
glad
it far too
have
you
highly.
for
not
and
that
in
troublingyou
book
more
than
formerly have
almost
by heart.
am
care
I blundered
merely
for
beg pardon
how
meant
such
we
not
Paley's
I
see
shall wish
we
said it
believe
you
Brighton.
to
know
not
"
Hooker
I should
Reviews
and
be
; but
Huxley
Farewell, with
got my
gratefulfor
for the
and
of
like you
men
Lyell,"c.
jointthanks
our
criticisms.
any
opinion
value
Lubbock
Mrs.
to
and
yourself. Adios.
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to L.
Jenyns*
Yorkshire.
Ilkley,
November
My
note
DEAR
forwarded
of health
JENYNS,
to
from
me
this summer,
I must
"
and
with
*
Now
thank
Down.
have
very
Rev.
for your
I have
been
little
you
13th,1859.
been
very
kind
much
out
hydropathising here
good
as
L. Blomefield.
yet.
I shall
for
stay
220
PUBLICATION
here
for another
book
is
only
be at all
long
at all agree
to
years
; but
wrong
convert
explains (as I
facts,can
be
to
this
to
that
; if
extenso
is
ever
surmounted
had
health
my
which
and
somehow,
allowed
I will do
enough
get strong
of which
out, and
publish in
to
me
the
MS.
the
as
so,
present
abstract.
an
will be
almost
illegible
; but
theory which
day.
that
persuade myself
egregiously
be
of course,
that
it
have
even
wish
I may,
very
It took
I go.
lengthswhich
to
certainly
does)several large classes of
culties
wholly wrong ; notwithstandingthe several diffi-
be
me
the
me.
think
which
stagger
with
cannot
that my
condensed, and,
much
very
[1859.
I shall be
read.
carefully
well
I know
But
perfectly
be
criticisms.
any
will not
you
abstract,and
an
SPECIES.'
OF
at
fortnight
must
intelligible,
gratefulfor
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
thanks
; with
can
of
old
good
Yours
poorly
am
for your
kind
days.
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
A. R.
Wallace.
November
Ilkley,
My
Sir,
DEAR
a
(ifpossible)
it at
receive
have
got
If you
are
I have
"
of
copy
nearly
bad
the
on
with
myself.
I fear not
much
one
the
I
hope
much.
condensed.
has
read
there
me
in
as
will be
it is
God
what
Hooker
knows
that
by post
will
you
(N.B. I
badly.)
extra
like to hear
thought
your
foundly
pro-
so
channel
same
little new
some
to
you,
but
Lyell,with
thinks
write
nearly the
so
you
this note.
have
you
send
hope
much
very
Remember
it,except
correspondence.
makes
book,
subject,and
and
with
should
the
to
time
same
which
finger,
general impression of
Murray
book,
my
inclined,I
so
told
13th,1859.
him
whom
a
I have
had
much
complete convert,
but
859.]
he
does
not
in the
theory will
the
that
by
interested
I
have
owing
no
the
one
stay for
naturalist
for
God
health, and
from
Mr.
as
Sclater
been
read
extremely much
was
weeks
nine
or
at
months,
reallyhave
IlkleyWells,
yet
I shall
have
longer.
when
knows
six
therefore
writing this
am
familyfor
my
few
some
little.
judges,
Archipelago has
he
share
your
real
heard
that
of my
state
with
been
I have
very
seen
to tell you.
news
the
evidently
it.
not
to
Malay
is
think
not
by
I have
Society,and
Linnean
the
at
"c.
the
on
paper
your
overlooked
be
; but
me
I do
subject.
Gray,
Hooker, Lyell,Asa
221
in his letters to
so
seem
deeply interested
in
WALLACE.
MR.
weeks,
I
where
and
have
shall
profited
strengthfor
my
biggerbook.
I
hope
sincerely
be
will
you
that you
with
soon
still
puzzled how
will be
worth
believe
your
grander
mental
The
publish.
to
materials.
You
good wish,
every
will
pray
me,
Yours
very
sincerely,
Charles
P.S.
ficent
magni-
your
Royal Societyfund
With
consideration.
that
; I suppose
collections,and
be
health
your
returning*
of
thinking
keep
"
that
I think
complete
I
If
convert.
told
I
before
you
convert
can
Darwin.
that
Hooker
Huxley
is
shall
be
content.
C. Darwin
to
W.
D. Fox.
Ilkley,
Yorkshire,
Wednesday [November 16th,1859].
I like the
much, and
enjoyed
it
good
but
first,
at
placevery much,
she
it has
has
Mr.
Wallace
was
done
gone
my
back
and
wife
the children
good.
again.
It did
I have
then
Malay Archipelago,
have
had
a
H.
a
badly
PUBLICATION
222
swollen
whole
of boils
have
OF
"
five
or
doing
much
me
species.
of the best
one
and
he thinks
letters to
If the
me
it
with
book
on
the
judges in Europe,
is
truth,but
whom
Dr. Hooker,
me.
it,
have
includes
mainly
calls
probably
weariful
receive, my
soon
all agree
at
the doctor
will
You
very
felt quiteill,
and
I have
once.
[1859.
sion
succesfrightful
as
unique crisis,"
naturallybelieve
will not
you
"
at
SPECIES.'
OF
rash,and
good
will
received,or
'ORIGIN
THE
sider
con-
complete convert,
Lyell is likewise;
certainly,
judgingfrom Lyell's
the
on
spiritmoves
subject,he
let
you,
C. Darwin
is
have
me
W.
to
line.
B.
Carpenter.
Ilkley,
Yorkshire,
November
My
on
sake.
subject's
for the
chapter without
for
making
main
able
the
understand
men
opposition to
views
will
of my
with
yourself,
well-established
writings. Therefore,
and
volume
honour
by
whether
not
see
are
willingto
which
an
the
author
review
I have
what
the
me
could
must
depend
far
more
supposition that
view.
in any
enquire
anywhere,
am
men,
on
when
my
you
own
have
not
of unpopularity
in the
of the Reviews.
or
like
true, I thank
the chance
know
in the
am
by me),
on
in the main
run
driving.
unseen
reputations,than
me
my
the subject;
was
If I
views.
my
the view
will review
one
at
being willingto
advocating
any
how
for
on
think
you
you
warmly
understood
including partialerrors
right(ofcourse
my
have
to
letter
in
extraordinary difficulty
most
the admission
read
myself,still more
seem
you
for your
you
out
profoundlyself-thought
found
I have
even
As
most
will be strong
There
thank
and
maturely
have
I must
"
own
my
last
Carpenter,
dear
[1859].
18th
least
I do
from
your
tion
the admira'
Compara-
859.]
that
Physiology,'
tive
will do
CARPENTER.
DR.
the
in
service
good
this note
but
you
job
do
excuse
thanking
shake
to
even
think
not
not
am
unwell
feelingvery
am
for
me,
I could
for your
you
in the
I
(privately
enough
I think
and
to-day,
is
must
without
excellentlydone,
for which
cause
selfishly
deeply interested.
and
will be
review
your
223
to enter
let
not
slightestdegree Sir
H.
man
say
the
on
post pass"
will have
You
note.
subject. Pray
tough
Holland.
has
believe
ledge
know-
with
me
sincerity,
Yours
trulyobliged,
Darwin.
C.
P.S.
As
"
Lyell thinks
Record
not
not
are
you
the
practicalgeologist,let
the
chapteron
add
me
that
exaggerated.
C. Darwin
W.
to
B.
Carpenter.
Yorkshire,
Ilkley,
19th [1859].
November
My
Carpenter,
dear
in any
in
ask
for
are
will
degree definite,
you
asking
my
habit
of
your
opinion in
From
in the
the
widely
your
truth
of
believer, but
I look
When
studied
I
one
at
by
him
think
think
me
you.
reasonable
un-
I do
not
of your
knowledge,
I, of
Though
of the
the
subject for
many
years,
As
very
brief idea
extended
to
come
I should
abilities,
others.
as
of
to
yet I know
value
course,
that
doctrine, I suspect
own
my
troublingyou
able
from
for
merely
highest rank.
very
until shared
have
hear
me
belief is vivid
Hooker.
let
to
you
for
beg pardon
book, you
generalimpression.
believe
"
no
only one
viz.
greatest authority,
cases
and
of
have
men
who
persuaded
OF
PUBLICATION
224
themselves
of
sometimes
these
truth
the
the
of
SPECIES.'
OF
[1859.
I
feel
one
of
doctrines,
foolishest
frightened,whether
little
'ORIGIN
THE
be
not
may
monomaniacs.
Again
short
would
note
shall have
this, I fear,unreasonable
excuse
pray
bear
to
hostile verdict,and
one.
many
bear
I could
and
suffice,
request.
Yours
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
jf.D. Hooker.
to
Yorkshire,
Ilkley,
Sunday [November, 1859].
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
Athenoeum*
in the
book
I wish
Athenceum
the
done, but
me
Chronicle.
Don't
so
with
Nov.
of
1859.
review
Gardeners^
and
is
like
he
too
does
severe.
think,is likelyto
He
that
says
mine
he
is inclined
exhibited
in his
to
be
go
a
a
lecture
ulties "more
or
less
confidently."
evident
his
the
shames
I should
in the
Reviewer
The
author's
and
19,
of
like yours,
Ouatrefages,who
diagram closelylike
*
the
well
me
in favour
of which
surely the
Carpenter, who,
from
us.
to
seems
in
from
Also
are
writes
style,fwhich
C. Watson
H.
remarks
; but
.
heard
way
of
of the
Some
think
you
convert.
of the
review
my
and, being
objections,
cocksure
and
author,viz.
who
It
me.
on
curiositymuch
my
hear
new
tone
is another
punishment
I have
long
conceited
the
deserve
the
review
single argument
I fear from
know
to
tell
gives no
every
little. There
it excites
...
in
written
over
read
just
should
would
you
reviewer
hostile,passes
doctrine,
and
If you
author.
is the
who
have
"
'
859.]
I shall stay here
unfortunate
able
four
five
or
thinks.
men
send
to
copy
to
learn
been
If
view, I
our
Huxley
what
that you
I suppose
am
for five
book.
this,for I
answer
very
not
my
nearly
Wallace.
to
I have
about
published?
Please
been
confined
as
long to
Down,
to
go
I have
been
round
success.
away
week.
for me,
came
then
and
foolish extent
separately.
225
I have
bad
Introduction*
Is your
sell it
extra
good
fear ultimate
shall not
will
has been
help thinking to
to
some
weeks
seven
This
the house.
Shrewsbury
at
of
out
REVIEWS.
fortnightmore,
one
the road
staying on
to
AND
OPINIONS
want
an
bothersome,
very
farewell.
Yours
affectionately,
C.
was
glad to
very
the
see
C. Darwin
to
for
her
We
are
to
HOOKER,
DEAR
[November
week
of
January, or
book
you
abuse
your
value
sincerely
so
and
hear
to
firm conviction
facts and
benefactors
cannot
very
I had
very
have
make
much
done
doubt
me
no
VOL.
II.
to
be
at
Mrs.
to
pleased
home)
you.
Hooker
much.
me
work.
own
have
here
written.
merely
enjoy
the
I, on
It is
who
an
trary,
con-
old
late
accumu-
the real
are
partialgeneralisations
who
in the
Those
1859].
I shall much
time.
with
many
of science.
hoped
much
of
other
my
21st,
come
any
discussingany pointsin
I hate
has
W.
and
you
note, which
kind
she cannot
sorry
very
see
2nd
extremely
thanks
Pray give my
"
Bentham.
J. D. Hooker.
Down
My
for Mr.
Medal
Royal
Darwin.
accumulate
facts I
respect.
have
come
I shall be
whether
essential
Introduction
up
to
good.
the
'
able.
I attended
Flora
to-morrow,
but
Ilkleyseems
to
the
Bench
of Australia.'
O
on
226
PUBLICATION
Monday,
cases
and
knocked
longer
and
up,
button
'ORIGIN
THE
detained
was
hours
OF
in
than
usual,
thanks
Many
and
for your
utterly
home
came
worth
not
am
[1859..
troublesome
adjudicatingsome
rally.
cannot
SPECIES.'
OF
old
an
pleasantnote.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I feel confident
"
subjectof
the
and
assent
God's
origin,and
far
sake
do
abuse
H\
facts
could
now
Sir,
DEAR
not
rest
C. Watson
begin
to
tempted
till I had
re-read
write
to
they will,in
1st. Your
the
established
an
has
what
in
natural
'
I
Origin,'
I shall
whole.
impressions,not
will
science,i.e.
"
It
truths,clarifying
intricate,adding
was
You
recognised as
selection."
Natural
this
doubting that
"
history of
am
impressions:
assuredly become
for
[1859].
21st
the
read
to
obscure, simplifyingwhat
was
so
deliberately. Meantime
first
characteristics of
the
Ditton, November
truth
C. Darwin.
to
more
leading idea
book
own
my
the
the
species,
like
working naturalists,
of
commenced
it
you
of
Introduction.
your
Once
"
of the
progress
of formation
Thames
My
future
important than
more
not
for the
manner
and
arguments
yourself,are
that
the
are
century,
greatest
if not
lutionist
revo-
of
all
centuries.
You
2nd.
will
perhaps need,
modify, possiblyin
applicationsof
going
one
to
matters
considerable
analogy between
barrier assumed
from
"
the
in
some
degree
also to
principle of
natural
some
of
more
extend, your
detail,it strikes
for nature
divergence."
These
and
on
species;
insufficient
may,
me
one
another
or
present
Without
selection.
by
primary inconsistency,
varieties
limit
degree, to
that
is
there
failure in the
by
sort
of
however, be
faults
in
my
1859.]
mind, attributable
own
views.
And
have
them
could
could
Sir C.
views
failed to
the
quarter of
you
their
see
date
the
this
Combe
"
glance
road
to
and
see
post
work
the
on
doubted
creations
the absolute
reserved
and
your
discernment
and
was
answered
Homo
as
in
papers
Fere-homo
the
*
to
me
would
make
Infra-homo cousins.
his
and
then
still
widening hiatus.
go
chronology of
on
The
of
of
But
old
trouble
will
you
to
see
special
and
species,
obvious
detect
to
between
the
The
gap
the
Satyrus
explanationreally
after I had
direct and
read
exterminatingwar
thus
would
present
the
be
of
ideas
Very sincerely,
"
C. Watson.
Almost-man."
made,
and
enormous
Hewett
the
species of
first
how
life,will shock
it.
penetrationto discover,
months
increasing,into
animal
of the
one
Proceedings.' The
soon
upon
men
till some
'Linnean
question.
the
margin,
the hiatus
about
expected.
was
in
apply.
query
my
occurred
never
to
for your
been
pamphlet
Yet
which
have
main
take
also
was
distinctness
of them.
modo
the
read,write,
I failed to grasp
will
on
century ago, I
quo
You
scored
How
out
If you
Scott.
of
many
and
succession,
I must
little controversial
passages
that,a quarter of
then
so
the
and
of mind
state
same
and
the
at
before
sooner.
their
succession,the all-important
thing,while
by
how
rightroad
the wrong
able
were
I send
them
your
brought fairlybefore
are
subjectof speciesand
something like
you
about
truly remarkable
seems
But
trouble
think, on
to
novel
public,it
scientific
227
volume.
these
3rd. Now
WATSON.
better not
I had
and
c-
H-
your
many
228
PUBLICATION
OF
J.
D.
'ORIGIN
THE
Hooker
SPECIES.'
OF
C. Darwin,
to
[Nov.
Athenaeum, Monday
My
Darwin,
DEAR
this,if only
ere
you
what
of
mass
phenomena
I say
into
as
Lyell,with
and
is
whom
I have
the
(though deluded)
pleasingto
judgment
my
deserve, it
reads
from
the
over
with
you.
Those
Essay
All
well,ever
three
plunges
read
to
accept
it
fellow,neither
very
name
my
pliments,
com-
different the
How
have
much
to
not
finished
will
look
Royal Standard
as
pleased with
be
book,
your
honest
such
any
to
I shall
see
an
deserved
pliment
com-
assistance
from
beside
cessful.
suc-
very
supposed
enough
just pass.
which, beside
handkerchief
ragged
must
MS.
fresh
accept your
affection
dear
dishonest
am
book
luckless
of
assistance
my
be
or
furthermore
and
nor
if I
and
I don't
of
tribute
man,
two
I must
it.
vanity ; but, my
my
will
yet attempted
not
acknowledgment
warm
and
facts
"
staying,is perfectlyenchanted,
are
we
and
me,
as
me,
what
strength of
absolutelygloating over
to
nor
the
on
written
gloriousbook'
curious
on
1859].
21,
have
to
not
for your
you
reasoning
for
chapters,
many
sinner
capitallywritten, and
this
it.
from
am
thank
to
close
it is
"
"
[1859.
talk
my
like
affectionately,
yours
Jos. D. Hooker.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
Yorkshire
Ilkley,
My
DEAR
HOOKER,
for your
affectionate
turned.
By Jove,
little
*
where
on
the
and
refers
to
most
I must
chagrined by
This
in the
I cannot
"
the
kind
review
AthencEiwi,
19, 1859,
reviewer,after touching
the
of the
book,
mercies
head
it
leaves
the
of the
College,the
was
author
you
will be
bit modest.
hope
the Museum."
thank
must
My
note.
get
review.*
Nov.
theologicalaspects
help it,I
try and
the
[November, 1859].
was
not
.
to
"the
Lecture
1S59]
As
advocate, he
only
argument
me,
but
how
to
catch
side.
me.
I had
...
praiseof
difficult
I should
have
liked
have
to
done,
if
a
tremendous
trying
am
he
as
beasts
this is
see
can
such
cultivate
to
it to
sending
me
burn
unorthodox.
with
[Huxley]
herb) prevents
it too
modesty (as I
book, that
my
subject,but
think
leaves
account,
no
on
and
me,
he
unspeakably grand
be
would
letter from
would,
ready, and
Faraday might
in which
manner
priestsat
the
He
the
on
the
But
sets
It
...
to lecture
were
chance
that
one
on
229
himself
Huxley
mere
think
mercies, is base.
their
to
might
immortality, and
in
drags
me
'ATHENAEUM.'
TIIE
which
you,
about
modest
is very
himself.
You
have
face
can
with
the
cockered
score
to
reviewers.
Give
kindest
my
that he
hear
Believe
continues
your
me,
extent, that I
to that
up
of savage
Lyells.
triumph
me
I suppose
are
to
them.
approve.
friend,
modest
would-be
D.
C.
C. Darwin
still
you
remembrance
to
feel I
now
C. Lye 11.
to
IlkleyWells, Yorkshire,
23rd [1859].
November
My
the
on
Lyell,
DEAR
plan
than
reading up
in your
To
its
maintained
Sir
Lyell'spublishedletters
tended
to
evolution
'
Manual,'
admit
in
but
the
new
this
then
Charles
that he in-
edition
was
I honour
and
doctrine
not
am
of
of the
pub-
in
side.
work
tion
of modifica-
convinced,could
master,
i860,
mined
the end
to
the
and
'
discuss
side of
it up, is
one
was,
however,
Antiquityof
had
already
the
of the book.
be
sincerely.
most
you
till 1865. He
on
better
rejoiceprofoundly
give
deliberately
lished
at
admirably
been
doctrine
the
positionof
have
not
opposite
success.
worked
have
could
admitting
in the
from
appears
the
to
;* nothing, I
edition
new
there
on
intend
you
importantfor
have
seemed
species question ;
that
more
You
"
'
Man'
deter'
Origin
at
PUBLICATION
230
fact to which
a
OF
I much
'ORIGIN
THE
doubt
whether
SPECIES.'
OF
[1859.
of science
the records
offer
of
so
often
and
asked
of
cases
many
cold
pursuing
men
shudder
myself whether
Now
phantasy.
have
been
selection
whether
could
far
for, as
expended
on
multipleoriginof dogs.
the
singleorigins,all
of
case
since
domesticated
man
origins,
part
to
savages
me
the
where
compel
admission
I thank
have
only
In
of
by
you
shown
Your
his views
the
produced
bigots.
importance
of
is,that in the
has
races
is
bigotry
adopt
the
not,
originated
of
case
under
multiple
natural
of
ditions.
con-
singleorigin
priori improbability(seeinghow
fond
its
permit
man
the
dogs
they
think
and
difference
of the
species.
was
of natural
cheerful
and
an
as
there
world,
domestic
domesticated
who
overrate
you
should
widely
countries
you
those
to.
But
hope
reception.
that throughout
taming animals),
throughout all
Besides
virulence
the
the wise
The
execrated
infinitely
preferthe theory
some
of
are
the
if facts would
all cases,
seems
; but
difference
of the difference
I should
in
much
I cannot
cisms,
for criti-
you
of the doctrine
works
are
vestigato
in-
wholly
be
can
Thank
am
remember,
can
Hooker,
if I
injureyour
as
and
admission
the
life to
my
as
second
I have
and
me,
devoted
in peace.
that
thinking
atheist,
"c,
it
at
be
have
not
I rest
which, if there
through
run
therefore
and
wrong,
I may
I look
of
has
an
now
are
that
to
wild
times, and
domesticated
distributed
one
Canis.
genus
of at least three
kinds
of
domesticated,
than
more
have
all
one
wild
almost
to
seems
Canis
been
has
man.
cordiallyfor
about
my
all the
generous
book, and
affectionate
friend
I
and
zeal
and
interest
dear
remain, my
Lyell,
disciple,
Charles
Darwin.
859J
HUXLEY'S
MR-
whom
J. Herschel, to
Sir
book.
He
should
thinks, for, of
going
to
If you
what
out
effect
any
my
I should
; and
produce
read
to
me.
find
pray
write
not
whether
hear
like to
is
opposed
me,
23
copy,
read
will
he
course,
the side
to
after he has
him
meet
I sent
leans
he
says
ADHERENCE.
he
cessively
ex-
such
on
mind.
T. H.
Huxley
C. Darwin.
to
Jermyn Street,W.,
November
23rd, 1859.
My
DARWIN,
DEAR
lucky examination
I read
Natural
the
be
doctrine,I
As
with
realized
points
I enter
Karl
you
I
the
feel
the
Ernst
on
suppose,
that
von
"
book,
have
Baer,
it
you
for
I
impresses
As
for your
caveat
admirable,
is most
until
thoroughly
agree
in them.
down
your
bearings of
great
Nothing,
me.
I think
can
see
not
most
b. 1792,
my.
the cent-
fully
you
have
not
arise in
adversaries.
those
the most
and
productionof species,and
onus
so
on
question.
for the
cause
made
subject.
that
chapters,I
"
two
true
work
thrown
But
of
to
most
principleslaid
demonstrated
go
given
the
contains
the way
hours
no
ago,
has
of the
tone
XIII.
or
all the
have
to
have
about
nothing
prepared
am
one
further
few
heartilythank
most
you
the
than
on
yesterday, a
a
years
with
met
I do
and
views
new
better
Chapter
but
I have
me,
know
who
of
of
store
think, can
those
with
me
nine
essays,
History Science
great
and
Bar's
Von
impression upon
an
furnished
having
book
your
leisure.
continuous
Since
I finished
"
by
yet
modern
any
means
remarkable
and
fully
original
the
founded
practically
science of embryology.
He
and
Chapters III.,IV.
them
justnow.
loaded
have
you
adopting
Natura
2nd, it is
not
of
are
have
clear to
as
more
me
are,
I must
However,
before
I presume
I trust
the
read
in
difficulty
.
And
.
physicalconditions
should
variation
suppose,
not
annoyed
the
considerable
of all
thoughtfulmen.
rate,
which
upon
in
you
Looking
all I think
back
that
of your
of
friends,at
combativeness
my
claws
and
my
letter,it reallyexpresses
and
justlyrebuked
beak
noble
your
it) may
in readiness.
book
will understand
you
that
that,like
"
C. Danvin
the
HUXLEY,
Like
Down.
unction, I
extreme
have
been
have
said.
more
can
than
parrot
to
T. H.
Huxley.
Huxley.
Nov.
Ilkley,
from
half
am
faithfully,
yours
T. H.
DEAR
feebly
so
the more."
story, I think
Ever
My
for
will bark
which
amount
an
representa
mis-
lastinggratitude
curs
some
gusted
dis-
is in store
and
you
of it ; but
ashamed
the
to
way
and
abuse
often
over
about
more
stead.
sharpening up
am
in the
good
times
in any
the
earned
as
with
have
you
be
greatly mistake,
recollect
endowed
(though
stand
And
must
are
have
it you
Depend
any
three
or
yourself to
by
you.
yelp,you
two
allow
which, unless
and
book
begin pickingholes.
to
will
you
or
me
that
1st
unreservedly.
so
you
about
no
unnecessary
if continual
why,
me
to
[1859.
at all.
occur
an
facit saltum
little moment
so
occurred
yourself with
11011
SPECIES.'
OF
will write
V., and
only objectionsthat
The
'ORIGIN
THE
OF
PUBLICATION
232
"
letter has
been
G^ood Catholic
who
Your
a
now
sing
contented
Exactly fifteen
"
with
months
nunc
one
25
[1859],
forwarded
received
has
dimittis."
I should
quarter of what
ago, when
to
I put
pen
you
to
859.]
in
fixed
I then
and
mentally
Hooker, and
yourself. It
for your
"nunc
sing my
can
pat you
the back
on
have
You
greatlytroubled
produce
on
cock's
talk
to
head,
dear
My
attack
you
makes
What
on
moss
or
Huxley,
the
effect,what
you.
I thank
be
immovable
if I
tionists
crea-
point,which
devil
has
conditions
determines
tuft of
sively
exces-
each
feathers
come
I shall much
like
it would
one
moss-rose
so
think, external
I must
Lyell,
were
contented, and
joke
on
done,
decision
me
now
some
cleverlyhit
if,as
whose
made
thought
have
judges
am
when
this with
over
What
little direct
particularvariation
The
verdict.
and
many
judges, on
dimittis."
so
this which
was
most
me
like
abide.
to
233
misgivings;
three
mind
my
I determined
anxious
awful
myself,
deluded
had
perhaps
ADHERENCE.
volume, I had
for this
paper
HUXLEY'S
MR.
you
P.S.
think
you
On
I shall be
Hereafter
"
of
I fear
of
shall
we
hominem
ad
argumentum
explanation
my
classification
curious
particularly
what
Embryological similarity.
split. Did
Huxley
hear
to
about
perceive the
you
the
kangaroo
and
bear?
Darwin
Erasmus
to
C. Darwin.
23rd [1859].
November
DEAR
CHARLES,
hardly know
few
things
that
above
half,so
as
it is my
and
.
He
.
is
if I
has
can
the
he
am
so
Dr.*
evidently in
he is not
left
always
an
has
he
says
he
weaker
much
write, but
privatebelief
keeps statingthat
he
"
at
all events
give
wishes
dreadful
tied down
escape
Dr., afterwards
He
said.
can
by
Sir
in the
the
no
has
remain
state
of
to
either
way
I will
not
definite
to
he
Henry Holland.
head, that
jot down
read
much
conclusion,
in that state.
indecision,and
view^ and
has
that
spoken of
234
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PUBLICATION
varieties.
that
happened
structure
hummed
and
and
he
then
all
hawed, and
fell back
slave-ants
book
carrying
ever
read, and
To
of islands
the
species.
only
varieties,but
then
don't
in the
that
in
such
the process
is the
state
facts
of
back.
behind
rather
the
mean
the
to
the
least know
existing
if
could
palaeontologists
I wish
gone
much
so
has
ague
I had
entirely
so
fit in,why
feeling. My
left
through
affectionately,
to
C.
valuable
This
whole
-edition
Again
lot of criticisms
morning
edition
in
and
instantly,
[24th,1859].
First
thank
you
that
trade.
He
utterlyconfounds
me.
to
the
for
most
22nd.
Murray
day
this
to
letter dated
also from
I heard
the first
I have
D.
Lyell.
November
Ilkley,
"
me
selection.
C. Darwin
Lyell,
of
everything
E. A.
DEAR
the
absence
priori reasoningis
Yours
My
interesting
or
enough
species
ledge
the first know-
forms
the
torpiditythat
of natural
convincing of
most
feel
to
satisfactory
for the
world
don't
In fact the
me
the
most
it to
new
oldest
them.
distinguish
worse
fossilized whether
livingwere
the
it is the
of the
were
mentioned
He
turn
one
compare
continents
say
which
ear,
geographical distribution,I
relation
dare
the
change
you
it makes
really think
can
to
partlyconceivable,
was
of
another,
the
me
it he
read
had
he
proofs,and
now
myself
scenes.
relation
"
conceivability.
one
For
.
read
utterlyimpossible
"
bones
and
giving notice first,
of
the
the
on
also
it
perhaps
probabilityor
slightblot, which
without
breath
[1859.
he had
before
"
beyond
his
away
SPECIES.'
OF
the eye
speak of
to
it took
part, and
'ORIGIN
THE
edition,1250 copies.
he
wants
sold
a
the
new
Now, under
859.]
all
with
water-cure,
NEW
EDITION.
nervous
power
and
possiblydo head-work,
cannot
But
corrections.
necessary
my
manuscript,take
not
attempt
strike
heart.
About
the
of your
me
generallyin
skin, I
only actually
I
as
without
can
I must
suggestions:
line to say
one
whether
will
you
the
to
make
far
rattle-snake,look
and
Trigonocephalus,
rattle,and
I must
send
the
about
out
directed
will, as
advantage
Will you
much.
I must
235
to
the
see
transitions
to
my
Journal, under
my
probable origin of
it is the
the
"ozcte.
Madame
Belloc
I have
offered
Ouatrefageshas
over
Will
time.
I thank
give
you
reverence
been
saying
me,
My
and
premature.
am
pressed for
the whales
and
love
Again
assistance
pure
dear
my
largelywith
agrees
line about
one
unselfish
your
he
and
Did
agreed at
rash
naturalist.
never-tiringadvice
for
you
to
us
French
into
has
Murray
I have
excellent
an
book
my
errors.
proofs for scientific
I fear
is
translate
I believe
written
He
views.
truth
look
advice, but
urgent
my
to
of her ?
hear
ever
you
to
wants
; I
do
in
of truth.
Lyell,ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
[With regard
in
Murray
Nov.
subject'ssake
book
my
will
I
do
to
though
look
I
am
God
that she
the
very
plan
proposed
fell
through
*
The
If it
sale.
French
would
read
in the
was
was
You
.
scholar,I
over
could
made,
He
in the second
me,
copy,
scientific
some
the French
not
have
on
might
following year.
omitted
get
the
abroad
instantlysend
translation.
.
for
known
depended
[Mme. Belloc]would
Mr.
to
fame),to
mere
indirectlyits being
translation
passage
for
not
payment, and
poor
wrote
extremely anxious,
am
English
without
over
"I
translation,he
knows
; and
the
to
agree
only beg
man
1859:
(and
good
French
translated
should
and
to
that,
say
detect
any
proofs."
and
wrote
edition.
to
second
M.
de
236
PUBLICATION
Quatrefages:
'
The
Hachette
foolish and
was
French
had
been
it not
bringing out."
in another
anxious^he
side
not
am
sillyas
so
entered
which
in
appear
head
my
great loss.
I must
Prof. Bronn
is
to
of the
which
to
whether
sent
him, and
his
C.
on
case
in
respect.
change
C. Darwin
know
naturalist
no
profound
to
to
pretty good
is
expect
greatest of contemporary
copy
made
so
Quatrefages shows
like
the
have
de
should
There
question.
opinion I
for whose
read
M.
one
I have
thinks
of the
have
It is
letter to
How
"
has
Milne-Edwards
he
hoping to
edition
to convert
was
Zoologists:
whether
publisher.
sentence
how
my
not
me.
[1859.
translate
to
getting
in me,
German
the
in
would
idea
suggestedto
myself with
console
the
; but
dress
wished
all
presumptuous
SPECIES.'
OF
who
failed
has
Species
Bailliere,Masson, and
It
'ORIGIN
THE
gentleman
'
of
Origin
"
OF
the
Of
our
world
I
course
opinion."]
Lyell.
[November 25th,1859].
Ilkley,
My
LYELL,
DEAR
It is
no
The
I will
edition
sometimes
never
with
met
made
on
1250
was
built
; I
you
and
Hooker
my
wildest
do
you
certainlyleave
fancied
even
received
thank
trying to
use
thanks.
I have
"
that
castle
not
mean
; your
kindness
the whale
copies.
When
book
would
be
my
out
letter of the
your
in the
the
and
the
beyond
bear
.
in
was
I
spirits,
successful,but
air of such
sale,but
is
24th.
success
as
it has
impressionit has
at as chief judge)
hopes.
Farewell, I
am
tired,for I have
My
kind
been
going
over
the sheets.
friend,farewell,yours,
C. Darwin.
See
letters to
Bronn,
p.
276.
359-]
OF
PROGRESS
C. Darwin
OPINION.
C.
to
237
Lyell.
Ilkley,Yorkshire,
December
My
Lyell,
DEAR
interested
had
me,
it
as
suggestion ;
three
or
put in about
notions
the
Deity.
from
I dare
I did
say
could, I fear I
remark
him
nascent
that
it."
believe
to
me
What
that
at
such
least
show
me
that
domestic
p.
The
races
letter is
read
as
he
author
I had
Do
the
what
by being
book
he
has
tells
but I will
in !
me
never
Crawford
read
understand."
asked
victorious
C. Watson
"
wick's
Sedg-
to
hostile,but that
says
could
inserted
celebrated
book,
any
will be
He
author."
my
He
from
descended
I
given
expected
at Vol.
is
II.
a
a
"
my
He
real Pallasian
multitude
Murchison
that
that
287.
I have
being
mischievous,"I
"
H.
use.
spiritto
abstract.
commingled.
now
mine
as
note
he will
book,
sent
me
suggestions(quiteunimportant),and they
to the subject,
have
unavoidably done harm
by publishingan
our
no
final
and
Sedgwick's letter,
except
will read
his notice
parts
and
notes
some
the
calumniate
not
he
zoologistsays
one
writes
it is
But
the
organs.
out
be
known
be
can
all attacks.
over
"
truth
would
book
my
the passage
in
that
whether
has
me
but
such
in partially
making
greatest difficulty
sent
Kingsley, in
four.
me
[1859].
modify
to
your
letter to
I have
divine.
and
from
extract
an
unable
was
high conception of
have
you
Lady Lyell
capitalparagraph on
opposed to
not
to
modified
I have
chapter
to
refers to, I
accordance
in
which
note
thank
Pray
much.
me
chapters she
In the
Every
"
2nd
to
nearly all
of wild
be
species
outrageous.
nologist,
ethof which
is to show
that all
f John Crawford, orientalist,
organic beings, man
included,are
"c, b. 1783, d. 1868. The
in
a
tion,
review
perpetualprogress of amelioraappeared in the Examiner,
and
that
is
from
free
is
expounded in the
and, though hostile,
reverential language which we have
bigotry, as the following citation
We
cannot
will show
help saying quoted."
:
"
238
OF
PUBLICATION
little he
How
of
could
denudation
have
hell,which
God's
side
nor
fullybelieve
that
neither
on
life to your
my
I do
others.
ris
there
But
without
myself and
less of
can
not
that
to
for those
part
who
of the next
that
are
feel
I must
few
of
enough
I
now
see
book.
my
will go
appointed
brave
am
support
I
he
says
support, and
thing
one
notes
shall
he
Says
the comfort
owe
think
several
on
generous
not
odious
being
is
subject
reflection,perhaps will
much
us
the
had
I have
[1859..
geologist should
decided.
less
tells
Dante
great
subject. X.
the
nothing on
of
mind
without
against me
pronounce
singularso
civil and
very
of
How
SPECIES.'
OF
grappled with
have
ever
unphilosophicala
so
from
say
'ORIGIN
THE
bold
Yours
stood
as
learn, viz.
Farewell, with
few
very
have
to
as
years
cordial
lion.
think
to
thanks,
truly,
most
C. Darwin.
home
I return
will call
with
on
about
you
I have
as
you,
an
occupied by
mainly
'
often
in
Life," by
an
sleep at Erasmus's.
appeared
and
article, Time
"
o'clock,on
ten
so
shall
7th, and
there
December
[In
the
on
Professor
analysis of
Professor
Lecture, and
explains that
resting on
extent
supported in
and
was
his
knowledge,
He
truth."
"
book
and
I must
in
'
thank
so
of
had
doing by
perseverance,
and
the
his
"
to
was
in his
a
general tenor
been
the
ed
deliver-
of evolution
he
is
published.
was
great
of the
long engaged,"
so
perfect confidence
high-minded
evidentlydeeply pleased by
was
wrote
Darwin
book
favour
"
lecture
It
of
argument
of
doing
so
knowledge
Mr.
in which
researches
words,
in
Magazine'
Huxley.
the
sit
breakfast.
Macmillan's
'
Mr.
love
in
of
Huxley's
you
Macmillan.'
for your
No
one
extremely kind
could
receive
notice
more
of my
delightful
859.]
REVIEWS.
honourable
and
to
to
with
leadingidea
my
have
of
mutual
our
heard
not
You
of
attribute
friendship.You
admirable
had
life.
retired
my
from
me
compliment.
Lecture, owing
much
239
clearness.
your
much
have
too
explained
What
giftyou
properly thinking)clearly."]
Darwin
W.
to
B.
Carpenter.
Yorkshire,
Ilkley,
3rd [1859].
December
My
CARPENTER,
DEAR
letter.
It is
side.
our
body
feel that
can
of
lengths ;
have
and
and
by thinking
this is immaterial.
and
know
I
fuller
my
instincts ; but
with
there
MS.
will
scarcelyany
the candour
at
refer
must
critique,which
ready to
we
would
appear
came
shown
Carpenter's
now
in the
the
principleis
thing.
every-
have
have
January
round
and
But
good
unfilled
more
we
Ornitho-
orders.
discussed
surely be
slowly I
to
vertebrate
that
will go
you
like
same
homological
common
have
for
of forms
in
pains
quite the
myself,that
rich
kindness
It much
go
except of European
astonished
been
of the
corporeal structure,
very
This
cause.
quite agree
I reflect how
injuresthe
of the several
embryologicalstructure
than
[?]*
population
the
well
am
the
reaps
essential
whether
In
men.
Lyell, I
who
an
compact
in the
immaterial
as
old
I told
as
done
theologicum
further,by thinking of
In
and,
and
good
not
like
and
rhynchus,
it ;
relations
it
at
first offender
You
odium
now
not
your
on
great physiologist
mostly
I do
it is the
got
are
and
bear
abuse.
the
I look
we
men,
now
that
checking
for
our
shall conquer.
convinced
harvest
"
"
reallygood
long-run we
perfectlydelighted at
am
I say
of
"
gaps
fossil
no
many
instincts,
animals.
myself, I
here
When
in truth
am
i860, and
of the
'
National
in which
logicum is referred
the
to.
Review,'
odium
theo-
PUBLICATION
240
and
'
In my
yourself.
for
OF
National.'
trouble
knows
God
it is
opinion
the
taking
'ORIGIN
THE
writing
have
[1859.
I thank
grand.
of
I shall
SPECIES.'
OF
review
for
enough
in
few
dially
cor-
you
the
any
degree favourable.*
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
reviews
me
quite so
go
had
I have
...
all birds
from
He
will
I look
at
for
it
against us,
great I think
consider
be
he
what
he wrote
and
fairly
without
you
like
would
Embryology.
that
line.
liberal note
dead
the
on
quite prepared
to
line of argument.
Lyell.
Saturday"[December12th,1859].
with
about.
which
I
infer
...
he
expressionsthat, at bottom,
How
will take:
perhaps
hear
to
was
interviews
long
very
he
C.
to
Down,
I had
most
prejudicemy
C. Darwin
...
me
parent.
logist,
great physio-
line Owen
said
book, and
my
in
that
chokes
one
and
Homology
certainlyis
know
to
I fear ; but
reception of
from
not
fishes and
last mouthful
as
I shall
curious
this from
to
does
probably all
all vertebrates
admit
but
convert,
the
But
parent.
hardly
surelycome
is
progenitor,and
one
another
can
He
He
morning.
far
as
National.'
this
'
are
He
Carpenter
in the
reptilesfrom
him.
letter from
goes
from
several
immense
an
way
with
us
He
ever
said
said
very
effect
the
published of
was
not
to
the
glad to
at all suppose
thought
*
See
it
that
manner
my
of formation
hear
it.
He
took
that
I agree
with
no
more
letter to Dr.
the
explanationwas
me
of
up short
in all
you
likelythat
species.
I should
Carpenter,Vol.
"
You
best
I said
must
respects."I
be
II. p. 262.
rightin
859.]
that I should
added
He
what
prove."
agreed
greatlysinned
of
argument
of facts the
me
it is that
the
"
I have
my
bad
exactly
"is
law
do
means
it
of
If true
this is
to
but
good,
I have
had
than
more
very
few
Have
VOL.
ever
you
II.
since
once.
but
it is
great blow
I have
shall
never
back
came
been
has
dreamed
been
of:
finished it ?
as
plained
ex-
highest
with
this
book
my
at
stay
be
says
this
evidently very
and
ment.
discourage-
busy
in
14th [1859].
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much
me
knocked
has
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corrections)
book
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than
I suppose
it
the
this that
(!)
JoJin Lubbock.
latter part of my
The
took
tion,
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that
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deavour
en-
of
another
December
.
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know,
C. Darwin
I would
higgledy-piggledy." What
not
of
classes
quite agree
to
can
probably
comes
roundabout
that
improbable in
was
he
many
atque rotundus
good.
very
the
contemptuous.
what
general line
added
in this.
succeed
or
heard, by
book
that it
to know
convinceds."
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teres
too
"
spoilyour
objection,and
queer
thought
want
I have
my
I added
and
himself."
was
I should
"
believes
it is Darwin
be very
trulythat
explain.
everything,and
must
not
of,but
defended
line,and
will then
"You
rather
he
degree that
do
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say,
fullyand
most
in this
modify
short
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what
get
to
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no
is convinced
and
theorywould
to
him
and
penny
"
believes
Darwin
up
I should
criticise,
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"
said he had
part. He
part.
toss
I asked
running.
twenty times
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any
24I
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me
up
little
gettinga reprint(with
the press.
yet
Murray
very
is
If so, pray
now
much
more
successful
printing3000 copies.
tell me
whether
you
R
are
with
me
the
on
I shall
opponent
tell
Pray
for any
time
P.S.
have
got
of
Have
than
more
and
hope
excellent
J. D. Hooker
might
men
on
that
say
DARWIN,
C. Darwin.
to
to
through
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from
not
book
hardest
mite.*
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of
read,
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of matter
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have
full
and
published in
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[1859].
tired of
marvelling at
brought
them
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as
gone,
it reads
very
have
been
I must
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enemy
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talk
all,and
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to
the
See, however,
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you
tried
ever
all the
am
it is
"
so
glad
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Naturalist
any
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I
of the
brain
my
in
perfectly
am
of facts you
have
marshalling them
and
extremely
clear
as
how
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to
more
saw
Vol.
fullyfollowed
I did
little matters
many
I
well
amount
hard
are
hence
are
that
of his criticisms.
me
there
with
over
you
"
; it is also
stupid not
very
that
contents.
skill in
different from
Lyell told
it in MS.
day
on
certainlyhave
your
I have
the wonderful
bear, and
to
throwing
far
of time
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and
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heard
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now
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letters since
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side of the
our
Kew
DEAR
had
you
mutabilityof species.
the
question on
I wish
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fair number
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got
doing.
an
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are
candid
deal
[1859.
If you
me.
good
is
have
you
Natural
I have
"
opponents,
what
me
against
which
have, and
SPECIES.'
OF
honourable, fair,and
well how
say of all my
can
'ORIGIN
THE
general issue, or
I know
against me,
I
OF
PUBLICATION
242
not
ciate
appre-
hope
one
notice
highlyflattering
II. p. 22S.
"i359.]
in
the
of
patronizingly
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book, and
talking
and
all
at
Bentham
.
Ever
not
your
doctrine
heads, I fancy.
their
will stillshake
and
and
praisingyou
discussion,but
into
243
short
English Churchman/
'
the
CONVERTS.
Henslow
affectionately,
yours
Jos. D. Hooker.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
December
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
allowance
kindness
for your
if
"ordinaryfaculties,
your
do
believe
not
and
than
ever
what
from
"
he
in fine
me
died
of
author
J. E. Gray,*
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"
at
have
Gray (born1800,
the
the
of S.
son
F.
'
'
Plants,'one
English
on
.1824he
of
Arrangement
British
became
method.
connected
with
him
the
far
more
cessful
suc-
effect
any
and
A.
on
Gray
that
British
there
he read
of the
my
is
Keeper
of the
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Illustrations
'The
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Museum,
Museum,
no
book
attacked
HistoryDepartment
1840.
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British
'
dreams
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; I
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rto the
Natural
be
much
in the wildest
I shall be
already.
way
Supplement
Pharmacopoeia.' In 1821 he
The
publishedin his father's name
Gray,
am
how
sympathy
so
been
soon
produces
I would
style:
John Edward
1875) was
side.
book
some
Old
cared
I fancy your
at Lyell's,
copy?
has not.
shall
have, I
our
my
of Bentham
chance
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on
have
with
plenty of
know
not
some
one
and
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brought
book,
even
and
whether
hear
and
would
of you
My
risingnaturalists
to
You
Lyell'sgenerous
either
men,
sympathy.
book.
my
I must
patienceenough
anticipate.We
to
working
had
written
work.
own
your
he
and
my
satisfaction ; but
intense
gives me
-reasons,
approval of
Your
"
14th [1859].
and
was
docof the
appointed
collections
Zoological
was
of
the
author
of
Indian
Zoology,'
Knowsley Menagerie,'"c,
in
and
of
In
Zoological
papers.
innumerable
descriptive
the
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PUBLICATION
244
trine,and
for
laugh) say
round
hope
all the
glad
improvements
ask
And
and
since I have
spend
and
to
home
week
.
and
be
good
if you
and
can
probably
of this and
very
much
so
is to
reallyan
age
like,to
come
would
be
persuade
me
be
shall
we
not
am
note, which
see,
rience
expe-
great pleasure to
we
do
can,
Think
man
as
all times
; and
slipthrough.
may
far
my
have
children,if you
be
coming
"c."
as
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(whom
It would
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Hooker
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all your
here.
wife.
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still so very
are
all
are
perfection. I
never
are
now
beg
and
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been
(witha
you
settled in your
improvements satisfyyou.
goes,
work.
because
[1859.
have
"c,
inconsistency,
be
to
others
thing, they
ridiculous
most
SPECIES.'
OF
Lyell and
same
very
be very
must
here
; it is the
You
'ORIGIN
THE
nothing else,and
attackinghim
and
OF
at
equally
late, as
Mrs.
it
Hooker^
come.
kind
Farewell, my
and
friend,
dear
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I shall be very
"
discussion
demurs
the
we
in
the
and
mast,
are
Classification in
on
to
as
curious
whole, and
I
fine
would
frame
Chap.
die
sooner
of
mind
XIII.
has
he
says
what
hear
to
to
think
; I believe
nailed
than
his
give
discuss
the
of my
Huxley
colours
up
so
point
as
to
that
any
religionists.
two
Embryology
not
friends,
one
is my
noticed this
has
pet bit in my
to
Gray.
Down,
My
DEAR
long,and
am
at
Gray,
valuable
"
I have
letter.
present unwell
December
just received
I will write
and
much
my
me.
to Asa
C. Darwin
you
again
most
your
in
[1859].
21st
few
pressed with
kind,
days, for
business
:.
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AMERICAN
is
to-day'snote
merely personal.
American
be very
glad of
mind
be well abused
to
who
naturalists
speciesis
have
entity.
an
first
the
on
by
such
I think
absurd, but
it renders
I should
now
for any
arrangement
yet I have
the clean
made
sheets
aid
the
and
few
days
is
only
of
as
for the
reprintedand
with
done.
harm
no
can
you
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haste,and
have
sheets
many
should
be
reprint,
I will
afterwards,and
edition to
solely
publisher's,
any
corrections.
"
In great
sold
American
an
is
"
sale in America.
old.
that
this
you
new
those
copies was
anything
be
seem
them
I mention
edition
new
to
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after
could
sake
the remainder
printed off,and
are
in
accustomed
of 1250
if you
for my
over
my
remunerative
few important
sent
importance that
in their heads
copies.
more
profit.The
my
my
make,
up
drag
firstedition
probable a
could
and
reprint;
will
reasons,
made
naturalists.
not
infinitely
obliged
be
it of
firmly fixed
The
rapidly as possible,
3000
because
I have
intelligentmen,
men
too
and
day,
I think
argument, though
scientific
Edition.
; but
read
be
should
notions
an
245
EDITION.
not
as
do
I
the
hearty thanks,
Yours
very
sincerely,
C. Darwin.
I will write
again.
soon
C. Darwin
to
C.
Lyell.
Down,
MY
to
omen
DEAR
am
am
See
Lyell,
"
Thanks
"
[December,1859],
Bears," *
word
of ill-
me.
too
very
'
unwell
glad of
to
leave
your
home,
remarks
ed. i.,
Origin,'
p. 184.
to Sir J. D.
f Sir C. Lyellwrote
Hooker, Dec. 19, 1S59 ('Life,'ii.
I have
justfinished the
p. 327) :
reading of your splendidEssay [the
the origin
Flora of Australia '] on
of species,
illustrated by your
as
"
'
about
22nd
so
on
wide
think
shall not
Hooker,
see
botanical
it goes
very
you.
I have
not
yet
experience, and
far to
raise the
variety-makinghypothesis to the
rank of a theory,as accountingfor
in which
the manner
new
species
enter
the world."
246
PUBLICATION
got the
OF
The
Essay.
'ORIGIN
THE
parts which
flora itself.
!
essay
able
How
I have
seen
the
libraries. I
till I hunt
Decaisne
know
not
with
when
Hooker.
P.S.
heard
the
on
be called
to
am
gives
make
time
see
it.
I do
theory.
strength to grapple-
and
from
of the
some
Jardine:f his
Sir W.
Galapagos
which
varieties,
that
out
brief and
the
criticisms
so-called
fullyexpected
to
are
species
of
some
HOOKER,
DEAR
for which
'Revue
Historical
'
of
Originof Species.'
two
into
Sir
Sir A.
Jardineof
; I
1836he
See
t Jardine,
William, Bart.,
of
the son
1800, d. 1874, was
again.
but
[23rdDecember, 1859]!
last
thanks
many
very
Horticole,'
1852.
Sketch
of the
I received
"
letter is.
J. D. Hooker.
Down
My
His
same.
he will write
but he says
vague,
the
species are
C. Darwin
b.
whole
my
to
not
anxious
very
be
not
quiteunimportant
ought
he
I shall have
I have
"
think
to
seems
shall
paper,* and
Naudin's
not
celebrated
Brown's
Robert
superior to
to"
the Australian-
the generalization
about
grand, especially
me
seemed
in sheets
I read
[1859;.
SPECIES.'
OF
duction,'
Intronight your
am
surprisedto see
'
editor of the
became
Zoology and
'
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Maga-
Botany,'which,,
transformed
later,was
years
'
of Natural
Annals
History,'
his direction.
remained
under
Bonn's
Standard
He
Library he
edited White's
Natural
Historyof
Selborne.'
Sir W. Jardinewas
also*
editor
of
the
joint
Edinburgh
PhilosophicalJournal,' and was
Prideaux
author
He
Edinburgh,
title on
friesshire.For
Applegarth,Dumwas
and
educated
succeeded
at
to
the
in 1821.
Mr.
published, jointlywith
Sir
Stamford
J. Selby,
Raffles,Dr. Horsfield,and other
'
'
'
'
edited
the
'
'
British
Salmonidae,'
Ichthyologyof Annandale,'
Illustrations of Ornithology,'
ornithologists,
and
of
of the late
'
Contributions
turalist's
Na-
Hugh
to
'
moirs
Me-
Strickland,'
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OrnithologicalSynonyms,' "c.
included the four branches
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Men
malia,
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Ornithology, Ichthyology, Reign,'and Cates, Dictionaryof
and Entomology. Of these 40 vols.
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in
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were
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in the
formed
word
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of every
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of
nature
mine
(and others),but
much
on
approach
I shall
hear
from
to
this
see
or
would
he
; I declare
and
the
volume
Lyell.
it to
though
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vardian
see
be
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rather
work
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glad
to
If
few
see
whether
like
Lyell
sticking up
for
priority.
Sedgwick*
Darwin,
"
I write
Origin of Species.' It
Rev.
genealogy
till I hear
to
yours,
to
came,
Adam
the
in
Darwin.
C. Darwin.
Cambridge,
reflected
descent.
Revue
would
I should
it is foolish
is like
I cannot
and
the
I will retain
first
at
in Naudin
me
modification
in
I will return
you
that
see
Lyell
A.
'
nature.
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the
the forms
think, have
cannot,
Ever
DEAR
authors
some
classification
say
note,
independence
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selection.
adapts
assumed
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send
not
or
natural
throughout
and
Wallace
all agree
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"
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give classification
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closer
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of
subject,otherwise
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itself does
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them
geologists(who
simile
His
tainly
cer-
find
were
in Lamarck
would
principle
(p.103) of finality
his
harmonises
well
I cannot
But
and
existence
was
specieswere
paper
which
plastic.
much
mine.
providence,and
more
by
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others
like old
assumes
says
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being,and
it
say
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brings in
curious
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should
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with
fatality,
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like the
it very
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gives
manner,
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On
is
same
exactly the
prove
one
Decaisne
English writers,and
of
score
Naudin
mine.
read
to
Naudin, for I
send
to
surprised that
am
as
same
able
be
not
of you
good
very
to
I shall
247
thank
I
December
you
24th, 1859.
for your
think, in the
work
latter part
Universityof Cambridge.
1785, died
1873.
on
Born
248
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of last week
been
; but
overlooked
soon
as
after many
few
come
with
busy
began
preparing for
of my
of the
brother
read
to
Fellows
conclusion
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of
with
at
old friend
an
the
scheme
weekly meeting
do
not
Nature
does
thanks
my
that is but
the
related
many
I read
with
start
and
the
Times
but
climb
to
see
prove
I returned
staircase.
my
what
going
was
of the various
the
till my
sides
sorrow,
Parts
reply and
have, though
If I did not
I should
of
assumptions
which
can
regions,of
why
then
in the
read
wide
be
greatly,
; other
sore
them
have
deserted
in
conclusions
proved
language
and
nor
utterly
after
"
as
true
wild,
sail with
to
was
parts
the
"
machinery
that
book
your
physicaltruth
us
neither
tell
facts,capital
I think
You
locomotive
upon
think
not
of it I admired
because
of your
have
almost
were
started
that
of all solid
Wilkins's
them
believe
diffusion,through wide
induction, and
express
that my
truth-loving
man,
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the
to
opportunity.
pleasure.
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think,as Bishop
to
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grievouslymischievous.
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proposiand
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in that tram-road
method
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to you
than
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vacuum),
about
parts I
false and
ployed
em-
was
discussion
from
pain
more
able
fill space
contracted
very
hints
admirable
the
to
of the correlation
views
with
abhor
(spiteof
that
you
this
good-tempered
you
state
sent
are
it,
world.
busy
in the
on
I finished
3rdly,in lecturing;
Ray Club,
hardly
me.
of the
dog-tired,and
P.M.,
10
Clare
remain
before
the final
of the Commissioners
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and
2ndly, in attending
work
discuss
to
often
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lecture
my
[1859.
sooner,
it,and
ParliamentaryCommissioners
4thly, in hearing
days
any
on
interruptions,
Tuesday.
meeting
lazy or
it I
SPECIES.'
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book-parcels,which
my
am
opened
1st, in
"
have
it may
'ORIGIN
THE
among
when
unopened
So
OF
are
based
disproved,
arrangement
1859.]
SEDGWICK.
philosophical induction
of
natural
selection
As
do
deny
not
will of God
His
I call
; and
prove
can
also
He
write
You
the
of
He
that
by
laws
which
and
under
admitted
nature
We
all admit
logic,we
part of
denies
this is
glory of organic
material
in
them
in the
science
moral
and
first
our
other.
You
not) to
that
break
might
grade
of
modification
prove),final
which
improved.
If
it,and
tell
your
of the
cause
the
battle
us
is
history:
moral
allow
not
stand
successive
Passages
in your
in
physical
meta-
or
who
man
and
crown
link
mingle
to
us
classification
our
side of nature
one
and, if I do
link ;
best
in
mistake
two
suffer
into which
history.
good
as
the
generations acted
book, like that
it is
damage
lower
fallen since
it has
Take
nant
preg-
God,
into
race
the
or
not
or
one
mind, would
but
more
through finalcause,
the
development produced
bee and
its cells (which
would
still
'Tis the
of its
life.
common
it possible
(which,thank
any
supposed
pre-
for
of
one
fact of
laws, and
your
it,humanity, in my
records
bee-cells.
under
done
degradationthan
its written
of
consider
it. Were
brutalize
no
folly.
yet does
we
have
to break
cases
of the
physical. A
as
it does
that
ignored this
meaning, you
by
There
of
conception
laws, whether
your
mire
and
of such
have
well
as
is called
admirably, though
stated
issue.
study
consciously
consequence
of
principle.
done
subsequent
the
good
what
nature
deep
denied
and
point-blank at
are
but
development as
it about?
came
you
can
we
whole
if it were
as
have
you
all naturalists
by
sense.
"how
of
view
"
the
and
For
for the
acts
think, your
'Tis
selectingagent.
development,
This
selection
natural
"
better
acts
comprehends,
causes,
is
of the fact ?
cause
of
consequence
Development
final
"
secondary
the
to
causation.
creatures.
and
by
close
more
grand principle
your
facts ?
to
is it but
what
"
249
the
of the
case
successive
mortal
no
can
directing cause
and
to
gradually
which
I have
PUBLICATION
250
alluded
(and
moral
my
there
the
it while
natural
go to
evidence
but
in which
I dislike
as
in the author
not
of
of man's
a
than
a
and
monkey
I
the
by
earth.
much
His
But
knowledge
sustain
as
But
do
of
antitype
one
of
Himself
best
my
to
and
doing.
If you
and
I do
hurry,
and
in
give
of all productive
fruition
this,we
these
is
humbly
and
with
He
and
as
what
works
conformity
all
of
that
in His
me,
are
heart, and
"
in
only
days
fatigue,
They
only
both
He
can
and
my
solid
act
three
much
future.
condition
on
of
son
the
in
its
am
without
is
frame
of
about
memory,
stomach
my
their
which
in
me
activityand
lated
accumu-
fertile womb
lecturing
week)
visions
revelation
word, and
bodily
I have
greatest.
God's
six
of
been
have
demned
con-
things
inferences
word
of
the
in the
say
of yours
my
have
to
are
and
accept
loss
to
now
friend
gave
but
appears
tone
trust
the
anywhere
And
part of myself
visions
best
that
powers,
the
found
to
are
and
sense
year.
(formerly
I find
but
last
was
week
old
an
(ifwe
cluding
con-
confidence
triumphant
'
human
imagination.
the
lightit
in that
your
I must
and
risinggeneration (ina
time,nor
be
likelyto
logic)ever
of
of the
of
experience
the
the
to
of
greatlydislike
for
tone
state
under-
you
links
broken
summary,
it from
appeal
you
that
nearly done,
is
paper
organic descent,
on
; and
the
Lastly, then,
not
"
"
my
lecture-room.
my
chapter
good
but
[1859..
as
geology
talking of
are
almost
of
SPECIES'
OF
think, in speculating
you
pedigree
'ORIGIN
THE
others
are
taste.
over-state
you
OF
in
that
only
shall
can
meet
in heaven.
I have
written
therefore
believe
deepest
in
forgive any
me,
spite
moral
of
sentence
any
you
happen
disagreement
interest,your
true-hearted
in
to
points
some
old
; and
dislike
of
friend,
A.
Sedgwick.
the
1859.]
CREATION.
C. Darwin
251
T. H.
to
Huxley.
My
me
that
much
so
H.
HUXLEY,
DEAR
I must
analogy leading
I
thank
several
[Holland],but
H.
belief
to
which
life
originates.)I thought
this
head.
have
been
other
no
But
which
fact had
great an
so
the
on
made
effect
homologies
apparent
form.*
yet [of]how
it
as
on
it would
in your
see
me
on
as
probable,and
think
me
about
me
though perhaps
me
will
nothing
have
to
to
attacked
condemned
universally
was
not
You
grounds.
arguments
that
it seemed
as
know
we
only Sir
Not
it.
pleased
primordial created
one
answered
prudent
more
it out,
strike
only that
has
note
for
you
others,have
in
(By
mean
part of your
One
"
25th [1859].
Dec.
Down,
no
curious
most
head
turn
in the
of
one
remarks
of Vertebrata
of the
on
kind
probable,and
your
it
give
the
mind
not
and
Articulata.
You
have
done
before
(I never
real
heard
of
good
Sir
over
the bones
about
what
you
of the
the facts
ear, and
will have
from
me
I made
ignorance
my
mental
great
to
note
ask
were.
and
hearty thanks
With
H., for he
floored
He
many.
H.
besides
in talkingwith
yourself),
influence
business
Agency
real
for your
admiration
generous-
subject.
Yours
most
truly,
C. Darwin.
You
about
my
'
smile
may
ugly
about
MS.
Origin,' edit.
"Therefore
i.
should
the
; % it is not
p. 484.
infer
from
"
probably all
analogy that
have
organic beings which
lived
from
on
some
one
care
the
ever
descended
primordial form,
and
so
precautionsI
much
into which
f "My
have
the value
life was
General
taken
I set
on
first breathed."
Agent"
was
OF
PUBLICATION
252
them, but
the
'ORIGIN
THE
remembrance
of
I shall
write
not
strong feelingthat
priority.I
I
as
cannot
ought
to
that
say
be, but
am
avoid
always
his
defend
better
indifferent
as
can
one
I have
had
one
no
pigeons.
Decaisne
to
for
"
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
...
of
the breeds
[1859.
labour
intolerable
the
C. Darwin
SPECIES.'
OF
the
to
had
own
subject
doing anything
in
consequence,
I do
believe
not
of my
notions
justice. But
you
to
read
the
old
originalthoughts.
the
point)of
up
had
I did you
it must
is
one
have
bad
have
thing
the
subject,than
strikes my
night
I said
on
non-scientific
myself, I
to
but
would
not
good
hour's
read.
begin
to
by getting
turn
own
your
really important
reallygood
on
and
Huxley, having
I
work.
own
my
more
fullyconvinced
am
depended
any
me
checked
is the
(which
progress
done
always
is this that
Last
have
as
There
subjectwill
well-known
taken
MS.,
future
the
think
I do
having assimilated
your
unconsciously. You
than
of, that
iota about
one
plainlyit
see
friends.
would
just cut
your
Farewell, yours
duction,
Intro-
down,
and
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
December
Have
you
seen
book
in the
Times
?\
it is
by Huxley
Times.
It will do
the
splendid essay
I cannot
; but
never
avoid
heard
grand service,
With
Dec.
regard to
26th.
Naudin's
paper
in the
and
28th, 1859.
notice
of my
strong suspicionthat
that
he
wrote
in the
'
Revue
Horticole,'1852.
I859-]
'
'
THE
TIMES
REVIEW.
to T.
C. Darwin
H.
2:^
Huxley.
My
HUXLEY,
DEAR
Times
of
of
review
and
essay
The
deserved.
Lastly,he
with
of
is
what
; and
side.*
one
on
have
have
written
I
suppose
make
The
old
Well,
far
the
The
by
world
a
are
the
are
the
of
the
altogether." And
less
that
of
he does
hesitation,as
it
those
who
persons
so
highly.
force and
has
will
should
who
could
But
man.
hidden
genius of
JupiterOlympius
to
science
pure
to
come
in
above
common
conversant
end.
an
great service
reviews
soars
selves
them-
range
the
some
done
some
unreasonable
England
half columns
world
He
to
the
odicals.
peri-
common
religious
with
facts of
the
tically
to
organic
product
consequently
immediate
domain
is very
CertainlyI
were
is
pass
of the
creative fiat,and
out
to
what
fit to
influence
dozen
he
way
proposes
phenomena
"
scholar.
it too
those
in
man
you
the
view, according
orthodox
the
which
of
reviewer
The
by
grand
one
is,he
man
than
more
with
that there
and
give three
him
it all
laughed heartilyover
that you
could
how
For
whoever
cause,
and
and
think
writing is seasoned
it be ?
can
only
was
wrong,
great calibre.
and
Who
this essay,
am
his
know
mortals, who
to
quite uncommon
charmed
was
quite
appreciates
all
We
am
profound naturalist.
and
which
German
and
still rarer,
even
pleasant wit.
sentences.
is
thinks with
and
writes
most
the
he
be ?
me
attentively; but,
very
that
seems
enough
vain
literaryman,
Barnacle-book,
my
clearness
is
of
the
splendid
author
eulogium
an
[1S59].
I read
find
to
the
can
not
am
book
my
remarkable, it
knows
author
read
has
He
amazed
was
Who
me.
though
me,
It included
intenselycurious.
touched
when
Yesterday evening-,
"
previous day,
28th
Dec.
Down,
science
so
"
with
happens
are
prac-
the
(plainlya considerable
advantage) have
always thought
case
which
basis
of
professto
rest
on
scientific
therefore
only, and
being argued to their
admit
quences."
conse-
OF
PUBLICATION
-254
I look
the
at
of the
as
he
of
for
author,
should
If you
species.
the
acquainted with
into
views
[1859.
the
Times,
question
mere
SPECIES/
OF
of such
admission
the
and
prejudices,
'ORIGIN
THE
happen
tell
Heaven-sake
be
to
who
me
is?
dear
My
Huxley, yours
sincerely,
most
C. Darwin.
.admirably planned, so
enables
quoted
give a
to
us
of
distribution
contradicted
to
appear
"
the
to
dares
Mr.
(see p. 298).
speculationas
and
cases
test
of
ideal
carry
and
lead
but
fascinatingbut
.a
be
us
can
be
so
Origin
"
Mr.
mere
broad
many
region free
doubt
that this
is in
Darwin
truth
strong
of bubbles"
abhors
is
as
mere
greedy
lawyer,and
path
he
of
all the
being brought to
The
the
bids
us
airy track,fabricated of
bridgeof facts. If it be
a
chasm
from
Final
justlywarned
loves
of
extinguish itself
He
of
to
on
goes
so
"ropes
vacuum.
in the
condition
which
his
the
virgins,
barren
no
and
sages
pas-
organisation,
'
paragraph
capable
safelyover
to
'
experiment.
not
few
that it is not
of life and
constitutional
solid and
us
are
and
high authorityhas
There
space, and
doubting,nor
writes
any
down
observation
so, it will
upheld.
in
ingenious hypothesis
doubt
final
abhors
precedentsas
cobwebs,
"
Sedgwick
Huxley
professesto
follow
in
The
nature
he lays
principles
the
of
rest
Professor
to
of
state
"
by unjustifiedbelief."
^contrast
and
phenomena
readers
"
it neither
dogmatism
apparent anomalies
time
It is
respectful
unquestionable."Mr. Huxley
thdtigeSkepsis
that
this most
for many
reason
the main
be
to
us
Origin
like
therein
26.
'
'
anything
That
livingbeings in
by
recommend
"
"
of December
for the
of the doctrines
truth
be
may
from
adequate idea
an
space
Times
claim
to
as
it abstains
the
;asserting
short
article in the
Huxley's
hearing, and
in
the
in
snares
our
ledge,
knowof those
Causes, againstwhom
us."
1859.]
it did
as
from
into
the
Origin
'
ordinary
bewailed
such
of
book.
get him
of his
he
that
would
offered
of
anxious
book
the
Times
being
make
to
then
sent
Mr.
Lucas,
who
the
deal
and
with
ask
to
to
me
accordingly,
me
for
necessary
of his
him
write, by
to
own.
thus
opportunity
the
multitudinous
subject,
duly prefixed
tions
condithe
wrote
in
anything
wrote
ever
babe,
difficultyabout
any
full of
very
to
with
the
Week,'
having
the
of
excellent
Once
disposed
upon
staff
an
be
be
threw
was
as
applied to
fair chance
'
science
paragraphs
seize
to
the
suppose
of
on
might
three
or
the
; and
and
two
giving
of
readers
article
with
too
was
adopt anything
to
prefacing it
"
it
recommended
was
and
difficulty,
explaining, however,
formally
he
of
one
editor
acquaintance
an
that
Lucas, though
of
to
me
it.
what
period,
Whereupon
out
Lucas,
knowledge
any
to
Mr.
strong
allows
chance
happy
in
had
Huxley
writing
Mr.
later
have
must
of
day,
business,
at
himself
that
at
innocent
as
to
sent
was
of
course
journalist,and,
was
'
writers
Times
of the
account
an
opportunity
the
his hands
The
"
letter
255
Mr.
reading public.
the
on
review.
in the
influence
quote
'times'
THE
his
life,
my
opening
sentences.
"
to
the
When
its
of
innocent
of
some
"
As
with
more
my
the
from
by
not
first
the
the
Times
the
secret
aid
my
; and
out
then
acute
friends,that
years
publication
it will
the
in
speculation
time,
used
vehement
they
all secrets
as
derive
to
good
assertions
knew
as
it
of
mine
was
review, I suppose
space
leaked
from
some
much
was
amusement
paragraph
in the
worth
appeared, there
The
authorship.
will,but
deal
article
since, referred
there
of
will
this little
occupy."]
be
to
no
my
connection
breach
history,if
you
of
fidence
con-
think
it
256
'ORIGIN
THE
SPECIES.'
OF
CHAPTER
'ORIGIN
THE
VII.
SPECIES'
OF
{continued).
"
i860.
I
EXTRACT
entries from
few
second
The
"Jan. 7th.
father's
my
edition, 3000
Diary :
"
copies,of 'Origin
published."
was
"
States
My
2500
was
of
'
'
Origin
in the
United
copies."
here
has
father
first edition
The
22nd.
May
noted
the
down
for the
received
sums
Origin.'
Edition
First
once,
on
..
the
"\%o
13
"816
13
edition
he
and
Plants
'
; the
636
..
second
his materials
was
visit to
at
Down
only other
Dr. Lane's
during the
Water-cure
in
June, and
at
Hartfield, in Sussex
to
for the
work
began
'
at
Variation
of the year
was
Drosera.
He
..
publicationof
the
of Animals
on
Edition
Second
After
Nov.
16.
for visits to
Miss
whole
Establishment
Elizabeth
(July),and
to
at
for
Sudbrooke,
Wedgwood's
house
Eastbourne, Sept.
22
i860.]
AUSTRALIAN
FLORA.
C. Darwin
257
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
probably
would
you
finished your
I have
Hooker,"
DEAR
like to
hear
judgment
subjectsof
on
know
how
far
me
far the
by
the
grander.
the firstpart,
will demur
this,for
speculative
parts of
is to
from
you).
his
clear,that
You
No.
with
the
looks
which
I
exclaimed,
"
do
harm
to
One
orders.
his
interested
all."
this beats
Flora of Australia
with
the
The
of the
rest
botanist
at
the
to
clusions
con-
your
matician
mathe-
hardly know
and
over
(sneer
idea
which
"c.
1st
admirably
again
over
generalcomparison
extremelyoriginal,
good, and
before)as
with
most
sneer
so
look
can
; for
most
me
the
be
affix any
y/ z 2, "c.
be
you
say
superioryour
conclusions
all to
to
better than
likes
(here will
philosophicabstraction
at
parts have
at
use
You
seems
I dare
me.
author
Brown
all your
no
to
every
of
made
be
this
productions. How
one
have
it would
think
own
the famous
but
essays,
newer
my
read.
ever
probably because
to
essay
former
To
interestingessay,
most
discussed, I have
your
non-
exaggeration.
any
grandestand
nature
I admired
opinion,though
my
As
Essay.*
world, strikes
of the
(as
me
suggestiveof
many
reflections.
The
....
think
the
that
the
invading Indian
fact you
Indian
mention
found
Islands,greatly lessens
so
I
and
of naturalised
VOL.
II.
is
nothing
case
same
production
"
'
level
of the
of
Australian
like
as
to
essay
the
"
layan
Ma-
which
difficulty
the
suspect it is the
and
but
interesting,
contradistinction
in low
great. There
is very
the close
towards
in
vegetation,
vegetation,is
seemed
Flora
of
at
one's
first
(page 1)
horse.
hobby-
own
glacialmigration,
productionof greater
Flora.
S
area
258
'ORIGIN
THE
of lesser ; of
conquering those
have
I demur
to
remarks
your
would
forms
the Indian
course
tralia.
cool parts of Aus-
the
in seizingon
greater difficulty
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
(page 1),as
conceiving
"
not
could
of
profound ignorance
introduction
or
cause
would
the
remarks
admirable
have
(page civ),you
essay
answer
close
the
plants. Towards
of Australian
our
on
of
possible naturalisation
p.
1, by
p. civ.
Your
of the
one
show
with
case
curious
and
intricate
Britain.
Your
down
destroying an
or
of
number
I
not
am
remark
whether
me
the discussion
sure
is not
or
even
But
Your
the facts.
it will
mammals
no
Zealand
New
in New
has
only
which
of
about
the
know
whether
are
like
much
inclined
the
killed
another
not
the
which
absent
like
I
no
migration.
orders
almost
forget.
have
all
nearly
lxxxix,
p.
essay
"c.
Now
do
You
seeds
not
anything
do
not
which
Leguminosse,
Birds
at
theory
no
knows
man
3),that
even
that
explain, "c.
of
power
by sea-water,
order
can
having
No.
whole
the
all
(together
At
!!
quarrel,viz.
world, that
trans-oceanic
or
Australia
subject)in
to
migration
against all
to
this
(on
trans-oceanic
continuously,or
land
sentence
am
maintain
been
by
demonstrated
now
in
vellous.
truly mar-
sneer
Zealand) (bitter
never
united
continuously,
is the
have
you
is
land
Zea-
much
suck
orders
Zealand,
New
New
too
to
in
important.
the
largestAustralian
few, species in
very
and
time
in
men
richer
was
on
on
keeping
I cannot
require a long
of the
case
Flora
eminentlynew
instructive.
more
Anyhow,
with
to
of
races
originalFlora, which
as
Zealand)
New
invading
me
both.
none,
mixed
strikes
species,
Flora
admire
on
of the
as
You
.
discussion
(and of
corner
problem
Your
is
corners
of.
heard
ever
force.
of the south-east
invaders
as
cases
wonderful
south-east
and
south-west
wonderful
most
the
mixed
is
of the
contrast
and
migrate
i860.]
from
the
AUSTRALIAN
Australia
; but
only possiblemeans
know
enough
orders
The
know
which
European Genera
on
wish
of these
know,
to
modification
explain
has
when
do
we
ing
profoundlyinterest-
information,viz.
more
in the
of
Tropics
of Glacial Migration,how
I
Australia.
in
place
meet, and
we
not
to
taken
is
absent
are
genera
the notion
on
do
we
of Australian
seeds
for
earnestly
beg
the
the
seems
sea-water.
alone
here
that
as
question,especially
fact whether
by
discussion
; but
to
killed
are
floatation
yet I maintain
the
on
argue
main
the
know
not
to
259
therefore
Zealand, and
New
to
FLORA.
to
get you
had
better
mark
and
over
go
much
the list.
The
....
but
list of naturalised
why
bad, do you
will have
have
not
United
that
end, in the
up and
sum
comment
at this letter.
number
of
States
under
climate
is
of all that is
name
in return
at you
sneer
launched
the
on
the
at
ing,
plantsis extremelyinterest-
plants
on
facts ?
your
Should
naturalised
important ?
ground
in
introduced
defend
one's
now
in
express
an
abundance
am
admiration
My
dear
on
cannot
of your
what
of
and
South
of seeds
European plants
against such
one
very
reads
find words
which
cruel
must
men
as
conceited, but
with
attention,
strong enough
essay.
old friend,yours
is
unoccupied
an
the
showing
spots in Australia
on
grow
But
"
believe that
you
opinion
simple truth,I
my
to
form
must
respect
fancy theories
own
I dare
you.
and
man
bare
absolutely
were
one
With
Australia,"do
by
and
considerable
[on] the
remarked
in Australia
important,and
will
you
climates,as
extremelydifferent
so
and
Come, I
which
[not]have
you
good
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
to
260
P.S.
"
the
differ about
fairness
expect
other
deserved
raps
but it does
nice
that
notice
throw
in your
Himalaya,
forms
the
on
of the
cruel
of the
approve
Do
in Mexico.
men
Oh
to
are
you
to
C.
I
.
for
note.
and
more
roused
I
writingswill
do
in
will make
this,and
at
in favour
about
beyond
am
always said,
You
Gardeners'
the
on
well
am
far
I honour
the
want
too.
Gwyn
on
I have
not
that
the
man.
get
you
more
I have
opinions and
your
world
You
been, like
being often
Dec.
Saturday Review,
24,
hostile
of
The
1859.
arguments
the reviewer
and he
are
geological,
deals especiallywith the denuda-
remarks
his
The
Thanks
safe.
than
are
you,
mine.
bold
very
quite
in opposed arguments
originality
Jeffreysattacks me justlyin his
littoral shells
strictly
reviewer
embedded
letter
at least
that,"if a million of
or
turies,
less,is needed
no
prised
sur-
and
more
any
you
[January4th, i860].
that
convince
discussion
you.
of
glad
very
am
returned
glad
convinced
to
dearlybeloved
subject of species,for, as
more
grand
give
can
Lyell.
Chronicle
measure
least
of at
I
the
of
Down
"
me
period,
base
the
! my
Geographicalchapters.
L.
was
tell
Glacial
regions.
DEAR
imagine
forgetto
not
co-existence
the
temperate
C. Darwin
My
and
hope
facts, at
of
possibility
for animals
child,how
puny
well-
That
argument.
Chronicle.
are
the truth
confess
to
being
and
good
some
sorry
own
your
tropicaland
parallelcase
'
all
staggered.
more
teeth
of
of years
lapse
to
respect
am
convert.
all
at
the
the main
concern
almost
gets
cannot
complain
not
gives me
it.
One
GeologicalRecord
'
about
remarks
Gardeners'
in the
do
the
reviewer
all
at
Lindley is
With
besides
confound
"
[i860.
Saturday Review*
reviewer,so
the
not
if Bentham
and
SPECIES.'
OF
the
of the
Some
good,
very
in
arguments
omitted.
'ORIGIN
THE
he
to
cen-
for
feels
suit
i860.]
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in
in
Tertiarydeposits. I
of
Whewell, merely
You
to waste
not
to
the
see
that he
showing
as
for I
muddle,
thinking
was
applied to Tertiary
it whenever
return
can
was
might like
Possiblyyou
26l
MURRAY.
is not
have
you
enclosed
note
horrified
occasion
to
from
with
us.
write,so
as
time.
your
C. D.
C. Darwin
to C.
Lyell.
[January4th ? i860].
Down
I have
worth
thinks
specieschange
believes in
but
Keyserling,f
of
change
if
as
regularly,
too
selection
to
be
the
his brief
hardly understand
can
from
by
sole
of
form,
of
cause
but
chemical
some
note, but
not
species,grants
selection
brief note
He
sending you.
that natural
had
change.
this is I think
upshot.
the
I will send
*
Whewell
Dr.
i860): "...
become
of
what
you
I cannot, yet at
But
of the
without
ground
of the dissent."
manner
from
quoted
copy
whenever
"
the most
by much
of
reversion
to
important phase
is practically,
if
type (and which
not
win),
ignored by Mr. Daraltogether
to
me,
is the
and
which
well
Dr. Whe-
published.^
p. 6 of the separate
the second, and, as it
But
appears
so
it is
that
contradicted
careful selection
is
fact in
of
written
have
least,
there
and
thought
be
to
not
Murray's paper
(Jan. 2,
wrote
convert.
much
A.
instinctive
induces
inclination
individuals
of
the
cross
to interpreference
manner
speciesby
practical
those
with
allow
to
possessing the
years, by refusing
qualitieswhich
a
they themselves
Origin of Species
copy of the
the purity
to
so
as
in
the
be
to
want,
preserve
placed
Library of
or
equilibriumof the breed.
TrinityCollege.
f Count
Keyserling,geologist, It is trite to a proverb,that tall
author
with
Murchison
a man
of the
men
joint
marry littlewomen
dissented
for
in
same
some
'
'
...
Geology
mentioned
of
Russia,' 1845
in
Prof.
Geikie's
;
'
and
of genius marries
Life
we
of Murchison.'
The
wrote
in
The
late
two
the
one
of
Andrew
on
papers
R. Soc.
Proc.
referred
to
The
Murray
the
'
Edin.
here
Origin
'
i860.
is dated
following is
are
the
told
that
charm
so
do not
nature
typicalmedium
contrast,
in others
possess
explain it. I
effort of
fool
this is the
of
admired
qualities
we
them.
imagine
to
and
result
or
of
because
I do not
it is the
preserve
of the race."
the
262
without
and
he
sorry
I have
content
not
am
remotely distant
have
will
that
we
looked
"
at
Yours
the
on
am
dignity
thanks
Many
them
hard.
very
me
will
man
are
future.
hit
modify)so rash,
I advanced
consolatoryview
"
no
whether
much
[i860.
would
reviewers
to say that
man.
care
singlefact
other
or
SPECIES.'
OF
(whichperhapshe
speculations
It includes
of
'ORIGIN
THE
mere
as
in
savages
for your
last note.
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
received,in
I have
I have
squib,showing that
that
Manchester
is
"
proved might
right,and
is
Napoleon
rather
newspaper,
good
and therefore
right,"
cheatingtradesman
every
is
right.
also
C. Darzvin
W.
to
B.
Carpenter.
Down, January 6th [i860]?
My
Carpenter,
dear
article in the
becomes
'
as
How
capitally
you
by opposing
them
to
of
philosophical
the
the
such
have
liked
to
not
think any
being
much
have
candid
impressed
immutabilityof specificforms
It is
shame
obligedif
you
in individuals
to
give
could
of the
your
own
will
it.
mention
old
me
have
cuckoo
kinds
observation
instructed.
doctrine
be very
coloured
differently
been
of nests.
that the
remarks
surelybut slowlydie
tell
limbs
described, and
Also
of
me.
article without
your
The
or
well
so
more
you
read
can
with
are
the
for
sincerely
criticisms
some
views.
my
you
you
laying in twenty-seven
from
and
I thank
subjectyou
person
and
give
to
me
theological
opposers
in which
seen
to
seems
Bentham
as
manner
which
embryology, on
I do
men
!
systematists
extremelyhonourable
I should
on
turn
if it
especially
Wallace's
of Mr.
account
excellent
your
great good
production. It
your
clear
excellently
an
It will do
National.'
known
just read
I have
"
do
you
of
away.
much
eggs
their
know
sheep imported
i36o.]
than
slower
With
Carpenter,yours
I have
; but
had
detailed
accounts
my
formation
in-
made
the
my
dear
describe.
you
cordial thanks
most
colour
about
263
elomefield.
change
Indies
change
l.
rev.
and
respect,believe
me,
sincerely,
very
Ch.
C. Danvin
to L.
Darwin.
jfenyns*
Down, January 7th, i860.
My
JENYNS,
DEAR
It is of great
letter.
book
impressionmy
I thank
minds.
with
go
you
think
it
further
much
has
yet
but
rudimentary
to
be included
in
would
to
sufficiently
the
between
certainlyrash
all
as
seems
in
could
yet
dishonest
wishing
to
not
our
the
descended
alone
quite
the
the
ordination
sub-
of
these
organicbeings
this
With
conceal
Rev.
my
my
of the
one
period
to
seems
one
me
me
It
was
of
probability
primordialform
; but
willingto
strike
not
am
in
this, and
respect
to
something
man,
belief; but
opinion. Of
L. Blomefield.
the
forms
kingdoms.
belief of the
my
supports
is
earliest
great
from
obtrude
will
further.
findingintermediate
probable,I
me
to
explanation
classes of
same
from
if my
imperfect,and
in
to
will go
GeologicalRecord
puttingin
me
You
expected.
homologies,embryology,
on
whole
right,
for
classes
say ; and
explanationof
During
account
instructed
you
that you
my
; and
the
most
Huxley
it out.
far
be
beings having
this
what
convinced, if circumstances
am
on
greatest difficulties
record
know
to
me
line of descent.
one
imperfectionof
The
to
thingswhich
than
group,
organs
doubts
cast
of group
and
kind
for your
obliged
and
philosophical
on
to
one
interest
and
for the
much
very
produces
you
me
am
use
presumptuous,
lead yoit
No
"
am
very
thought
course
it
it is
264
to
open
every
THE
'ORIGIN
one
to
SPECIES.'
OF
believe
separate miracle,though I do
that
[i860.
appeared by
man
the
myself see
not
necessityor
probability.
Pray accept
going some
way
not
very
I do
that
will have
only the
enquiring mind
any
rejectall
to
of each
members
dear
My
I halted
that I
half-way;
will rest
all ;
admit
or
Your
note.
great confidence
long time
very
kind
for your
givesme
me
For
believe
not
People
with
wrong.
thanks
sincere
my
am
but
half-way.
by all,I
mean
great kingdom.
Jenyns,yours
sincerely,
most
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to C.
Lyell.
Down, January
to
you,
in the summary,
I have
place.
I have
"c. "c.
idea where
to
hunt, and
second
The
'
notes
my
to caution
of
edition
3000
of
but
me
that
MS.
to
(not
years
of
this to
the
me.
conspicuous
mortalityof children,
I have
would
carefully
any
read
used
opinion. You
tables
somewhere,
notes
trulyglad to
be
to
in
am
things
close
noticed
484
having (by
not
the
; I
two
f of
my
has
at p.
name
others
millions
one
[i860].
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yet only
as
towards
that any
not
refer you
I cannot
them,
Wallace
put in Wallace's
now
and
you
probably wrong),and
inadvertence)mentioned
book
to
confounded
; those
me
it is
I think
of
nearlyall the
owe
ones
approve
you
annoyed
that
verbal
several
and
heartilyglad
have
that I
true
perfectly
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...
10th
the least
be old.
now
on
not
man,
be cautious
it is not
and
I shall
give my
about
man.
improbable
'
that
of the
on
'
Origin
January 7th.
than
was
million
'
'
"
So
my
father's copy
of the 2nd
edition.
i860.]
second
doubt, be
will,no
horrifythe
world
although by
the
I believe
It is in fact
vaguely)on
I have
gettingfacts.
have
facts, and
I sent
wray
to
Tierra
off
del
Fuego
as
lend
it.
I agree
with
not
much
whole
theory by
not
'
found
are
out
little doubt
Andrew
of the
some
caves
or
By
has
all
insects
are
"
very
First
read
means
"has
same
the
new
would
has
criticised,
the
disposed
The
of"
was
the
very
surpriseat
more
is,that
difficulty
caves
genus,
livingin
wrecks
on
but
good article,
for I express
bearing
; Erasmus
and
these
yesterday
Society of Edinburgh,
insects of the
of the
before
the
being known.
not
cases
ever
subject. By
which
ingenious difficulty,
thought of;
many
shall
Murray
and
Journal,'
an
the blind
there
Europe,
Linnean
have
to
analogous
world
Carpenter,a
.
good
be
Hensleigh Wedgwood's
Botanical
the
to
in the
amongst
about
notice
and
curious
it.
suppose
origin of Language
original.
address
of
pages,
the first
Dictionary,on
stupid not
not
at
man
can
'
look
best
of
impossibility
collected
expression!
on
20
of my
one
countenance
questionsthe day
should
we
about
Preface,in
an
do
uncommonly
lot of
animals.
scarcelyanything.
'
Psychology
in
that
done
read
never
show
thought (only
the
of
have
subjectI
an
volume
other
I have
I have
Psychologically,
it is
it will
in Natural
speculated,but
publish,but
*) I
from
down
fold !
line,but
good speculative
one
that
on
edition
the races,
to
wrhole
it.
respect
entire credence
listen to it.
even
doubt
broken
has
of truth
chances
must
With
my
predicamentwith
same
impossibleto
man.
than
more
hundred
discussion ; but
(p.489, new
sentence
is in the
man
caution
grand
first
at
the
return
to
265
edition.
of ancient
extermination.
edition,
p. 488.
I have
like Proteus
life,"
or
is
"
in
living
But
that
266
'ORIGIN
THE
formerly seeinginsects
of the
whole
cases
in which
area
the
SPECIES.'
OF
same
[i860.
roamed
genus
the
over
included.
are
Farewell,yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
had
Our
"
ancestor
swim
skull,and
an
animal
an
C. Darwin
water,
imperfect
tail,an
hermaphrodite!
pleasantgenealogy for
breathed
which
undoubtedly was
is
Here
was
mankind.
C.
to
Lyell.
Down, January 14th [i860].
I shall
be
much
...
and
be worth
may
cautious
of
will
it will be if I have
subjectto
me
caution
to
at you
; all
believe
have
book
am
for
that it
was
The
a
said
that
bookseller
very
what
glad
of
man
from
joke
a
on
the
hear
to
without
the very
first
single characters
on
he
said
remarkable
*
book.
conferred
never
gettingwidely distributed
out.
it
was
publish my
to
bookseller
opinion
cautions
very
benefit you
immense
grand
by gettingMurray
from
the
failed.
realised
think
after your
you,
of
one
suspect my
laugh to
me
classifications founded
What
.
that
the type
as
mind
my
his
classification
Huxley's opinion on
to me
having due knowledge, it seemed
absurd
cussion,
dis-
man
Owen's
will order
looked
long
that
qualities),
superfluous. It makes
will be
so
judgment (to
useful
most
readingyour
whatever
opinion carefully,
my
I have
scientific
highestand
same
give
; but
in
interested
had
he
book
says
II
at
none
had
she heard
Waterloo
till the
not
read
man
it,but
!!!....
1859.
letter
enquiring
Bridge ;
new
me
till to-day
; for in
a
on
and
edition
had
the
was
heard
chronicle.'
'gardeners'
iS6o.]
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
i860].
14th [January,
Down,
from
I heard
piece of
me
and
you
very
good
write
must
Lyell.
to
one,
and
But
kind
good
deal
but I
never
and
tell
I admire
;
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short
Mr.
the
slipover
from
figuresof
good joke ;
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it,and
all the
was
remarks,
as
chiefly
Gardeners"
so
well
Chronicle
caution
always to
'
the
know
now
it.
worth
mentioning, except
which
my
father
was
the
Origin
of
as
enticed
by
of
cross-breedingare
Species.'Mr.
as
West-
further evidence
the
identityof
the
Egyptian records,"with
correspondenceis hardly
"
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one
of
forth
previous number
adduced
and
ancient
called
was
descent, such
of
i860, appeared
21,
phenomena
the
to
on
Jan.
to
reply(Feb. n),
ostriches
we
it
he used
father, which
certain
doctrine
as
it
it.
of the
some
of the
Chronicle
in relation
the
and
me
my
journal,in which
the bird
of
I admired
communication
in
that
heart with
my
sent
I have re-read
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spare,
thought it
of course,
say
to
man.
Westwood's
wrote
; here
it,that I
with
it is yours,
"
discussed
tells
it in another
Gardeners*
the
against
matter
readers
the
on
It is
letter
wood
book
struck
of you.
Lyell is
frightensme.
to
minute
my
things you
dreamed
but
me
as
hardlya
at Lindleyhitting
on
surprised
to
thanks.
on
much
so
assumed,
noble
adapted
now
was
with
and
honourable
death
review
he
and
man
good-for-nothing
that I know
Lindley's. Now
my
are
slavingyourselfto
are
you
You
news.
267
of
into
the
very
few
cases
in
anything resembling a
controversy.]
*
Gardeners'
Referred
to
J. D. Hooker
Chronicle, i860,
above, at p. 260. Sir
took
the line of
com-
so
plete impartiality,
commit
Lindley.
as
not
to
268
'ORIGIN
THE
Gray
Asa
SPECIES.'
OF
[i860.
J. D. Hooker.
to
Cambridge, Mass.,
January 5th,i860.
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
Your
"
which
letter,
last
discovered.
were
in it
The
I should
botanical
some
principalpart
Darwin's
has
perusalfour days
of
out
twenty
in
reached
I
and
has
lose
it,for
not
secured.
not
yet
there
.
laudation
high
was
and
me,
of
It
It
that your
laudation
"
taken
as
much
him
saw
well
"
out
but
read
and
...
most
expressed
(entrenous).
annoyed by it,
taken
better
last,had
very poor 1 1
"
have
full of
system it makes
supposed possible.
it is poor
might well
thoroughly digested
"
Agassiz,when
he is very
its careful
is crammed
says
I finished
freelysay
it.
produce
and
I had
than
it.
I had
letter
your
to
sorry
masterly manner.
to
years
close,cogent,
at
season,
which
mems.
; and
ago
interestingmatter
He
place.
It is done
case
very
me
book.
of
be
reached
The
I do
part of it.
fact
[is]
wonder
not
and
To
capitalpoints,is
materials
bad
as
and
.
as
have
to
Forbes
take
the
glacier
all the
phenomena.
Tell
Darwin
chance.
here.
'
As
come
I have
I must
...
Silliman's
to
I will write
promised, he
myself write
out
upon
it
it)for
(when
and
so
you
him
when
I get
shall have
fair-play
of Darwin's
for
book
the next
ought
to
review
'
Journal (themore
setting about
the
all this.
be
every
moment
know
well
am
now
working
far
more
imagine.
i860.]
I doubt
if I shall
please Agassiz
not
Press, and
all.
at
will
approval.
please you
book
the
controversy.
some
gray's
dr.
269
altogether. I know
I hear
excite
another
much
I shall
reprintis
attention
in the
here, and
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
to
Gray,
DEAR
; and
To
me.
Hooker
"
cannot
receive
approval of
the
whose
possiblywish
kind
most
I have
it has
gratified
has
long
knowledge are
one
and
highestreward
thank
letter
your
author
an
heartilyfor
you
your
expressions.
been
not
earlier
You
have
absent
answer
from
kind
extremely
the
for
home
letter to
your
been
about
interest
for ; and
the
me
whom
man
to
deeply
judgment
admitted, is
universally
can
how
express
sincerelyrespected,and
most
forwarded
has
of
me
take
to
It has
edition.
few
days,and
the
10th
of
much
so
been
January.
trouble
mistake
could
so
and
of
my
the sheets.
I had
publishernot thinkingof sending over
entirelyand utterly forgottenyour offer of receivingthe
sheets as
blame
not
publisher,
printedoff. But I must
my
I remembered
for had
I should
book
of my
have
not
I should
of it ; for I
advantage
taken
successful with
being so
have
most
your
laughed at
the idea
of
dreamed
never
generalreaders
sending
sure
I believe
the
sheets
to
America.*
After
and
and
consideration,
much
others,I have
resolved
to
(exceptingcorrectingerrors,
*
my
In
letter to Mr.
father
wrote
Murray,
"
"
ment
my
has
made
denounced
amused
amongst
S60,
of the excite-
by Asa Gray'saccount
book
am
or
it in
Agassiz
newspaper,
on
of
have
the
present book
here
and
there
to
refer
tion.
to
Mercantile
it is
short
inserting
that itis in fact
terms
fine advertisement
the
as
Lyell
!"
lecture
This
seems
given before
Library
Associa-
270
'ORIGIN
THE
sentences)and
bring out the
to
first part
so
that I
am
corrections
for
corrections
in the second
complete,and
additions
of
historyof
day
some
"
the
be
intend
done, and
that you
have
will then
You
the
I will set
them
given
all idea
with your
nature
of your
review, I
honour
to have
my
book
Asa
of
as
in
you
equal
brief
they
must
short
time
of
separate edition.
reviezu
prefixed. Whatever
Gray
received
rather
whether
thus
few
five corrections
or
judge
assure
preface afterwards,unless
the
to
list of
about,
to
and
first,
up
making
prefacewith
short
I will send
able
be
edition
new
four
bigger
in
will have
you
send
write
to
subject. These
I hear
I enclose
equallysmall importance,or
also
brevity. I
edition.
I could
to
little,
my
take up time
which
reprint,
this time
by
or
American
an
will make
which
unwillingto
very
is but
(forming a
[i860.
strength,which
all my
use
SPECIES.'
OF
it is worth
I should
you
having
be
feel it
the
great
preceded
to
C. Darwin.
Cambridge, January 23rd,i860.
MY
DARWIN,
DEAR
You
"
have
you
and
publishinghouse
then to both
the
an
answer
from
had
York
New
author
to
and
the
his
saw
copy) ;
but
sale, we
author
The
house
reprintin Boston.
found
announced
that
reprint of
that
revised
that,
"
out
if the work
certainlyshall
be
"
I wrote
give way
I got
from
the next
have
all
New
edition.
(and
should
reprint,
second
to
they withdraw
telling
Well,
reprintalso!
publishers,
asking them
Harpers
letter
looked
York
for
made
hurried
my
any
disposed to
pay
the
day
siderable
con-
the
reasonablyand liberally."
Appletons being
declined
to go
on.
thus
out
with their
So I wrote
to the
the
reprint,
Boston
Appletons takin
or
iS6o.]
them
the
out
leaf,and
what
they
are,
asked
them
to
Such
hope
them
week
next
to Dr.
on
this is not
easy,
them
Then
request, I
here
have
as
you, and
ought
the
what
be
to
nor
and
in
inferences
difficulties to
The
had
'
not
see
Analogy,'
natural,which
to pass
what
I think
the
use
in the
book.
But
The
two.
or
treatment, the
think
as
if you
best
vast
had
twenty years
too
in.
then wants
everythingto
with
person
revision for
your
theory who
new
some
people who
frankly
at
have
never
It
cause.
difficulties,
insurmountable,
to
how
I
premisses,
your
hold
Well,
on.
he is to
probablehypothesisat
quotation from
on
you
least
any
of.
real foundation
as
from
review
of your
word
and
now
I understood
I do
premisses,
he
finds
speak
moment
a
of
but it
gain ;
will ask
handled
not
book
is worth
present. I know
for the
there
self-fertilises itself,
"c).
candour
that
confesses
I do
good, but
refreshingto find
is
So
yet appeared
tell you
to
best, part
done
acute
(p.97,
your
tional
the addi-
for it.
pay
[them] to
perfectmastery of them.
much
time to produce such
littlematters
first
in advance
matter
any
to
of facts and
Style clear
issue
just right.
the
Hooker.
and
weakest,
them
as
considerate.
send
fulfil your
To
the
and
Haven, and
New
furnish
in the papers
littlenotices
quite handsome
I
tells
soon
I suppose.
much,
be very
will not
I sent
in their future
I may
as
reprint,
And
third
the London
"c.
insert
If you
stands.
matter
"c.
Butler,* which
from
matter
are
271
use
the
criticisms.
to give them
word, offeringto aid their reprint,
at their
find
gray's
dr.
Butler's
if
felt sure
you
admits
your
one
sions,
conclu-
least.
tion
is
of the word
from
Whewell
second
oppositethe title-page.
edi-
placed with
and
the
passages
Bacon
on
p.
ii,
It
anything like
made
favourable
convert
conclusions,than
could
nor
Well, what
the
attempt
of eyes,
I say
to
seems
to
book
of your
weakest
the
"c, by natural
book
I suppose
it
I do
fair and
as
by standing non-committed
should
if I announced
myself a
selection.
the book
point in
account
not
latter,with truth.
the
me
does
impressionthe
the circumstances
consideration,and
its full
to
[i860.
theory more
your
review
me.
upon
SPECIES.'
OF
that my
happens
naturally
exhibit
has
'ORIGIN
THE
272
of organs, the
making
of this reads
Some
is
quite
Lamarckian.
The
chapter on
have
chapter. You
not
accounted,
up
to
crosses,
in that
you
carried
but
for the
I write
which
free to say
as
I have
to
say
from
about
you
divergence
of
fertility
imperceptiblestep
have
you
and
the
that
yours.
to
the
more,
do
something to
pay
in
me
valuing
my
yet
never
opinion.
this
the
might
letters.
my
learnt
remain
There
very
[to]Hooker,
especially
reading of
I
compliments,the
your
of it than
more
[to]you,
be inferred from
am
; but
insensible
not
am
evidentlythink
almost
have
present.
high compliment
not
producing increased
righttrack
the
way
still you
But
account, for
to
strong
department.
Enough
You
be held
short
one
there.
wonders
may
weaky but
to
on
are
done
certain extent
givingrise
you
as
is not
Hybridism
so
a
much
from
thousand
book
one
thingsI long
it.
Ever
yours,
Asa
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
Gray.
[February? i860.]
Now
letter.
What
I will
you
just run
say about
my
through some
book
points in
me
gratifies
most
your
deeply,
i860.]
and
a
historical
I wish
review
I could
from
feel all
is not
moderately favourable, is
About
review.
the
day gives me
known
cold
in
weak
an
by
quitethink
entire convert,
if fair and
me.
points I
shudder,but
gradations,my
273
deserved
was
who
man,
sketch.
The
this
I think
of the
fine
to
when
me
of
to
agree.
tells
reason
kind
best
eye
ought
conquer
should
the
about
be
and
for any
health.
how
Wyman
for his
I have
opinion.
alreadyasked
am
him
very
criticisms.
hints, information,or
highest respect
Dana's
tell Prof.
so
to
sorry
me
pay
visit.
have
Farewell,you
that I feel it
think
to
me
load.
that
the
as
three
judges whose
of
obligation
"
others
Gray, yours
worth
book
my
in my
should
led
are
you
of
"
by
speciesbefore
in your
belief.
astonished
minds.
as
your
and
subject of
will go
to
sketch
Will
of the progress
or
you
out
sentence
1852,p.
VOL.
HOOKER,
103,
II.
Mrs.
further
you
made
have
not
origin
on
am
many
been
half
J. D. Hooker.
Down
DEAR
has
I should
ago
assure
if
conviction.
C. Darwin
My
the
and
further
and
book
impression my
to
the
Darwin.
experience,that
own
long years,
me
twenty years
open
keep
to
of all.
sincerely,
most
my
mind, you
your
the
I fear
candid
studies
It took
at
from
own
value most
C.
P.S.
not
readingand
I put down
opinions I
dear
load
to
highestpossible
gratification
found
have
and
My
under
me
It is the
you
laid
I have
"
of
of Naudin's
namely,that
resolved
opinion
Hooker
do
on
his
in
to
the
the
me
paper
on
[January31st, i860].
the
publish
change
favour
'
to
Revue
of
principle
of
little
species.
copy
one
Horticole,'
Finalite.
T
Can
'ORIGIN
THE
274
let
you
have
me
the vowels
get
preface over
him
to
having Naudin's
I did
soon.
sentence
necessityof
of the
think
not
to
this little
to send
I want
have
I would
otherwise
finality,
on
over
Asa
book, and
of my
edition
dashes
confounded
those
?
put in carefully
second
with
it soon,
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
copied it.
affectionately,
Yours
C. Darwin.
P.S.
shall
"
Flora
by just alluding
end
What
Introduction.
December
prefacewill
My
the
was
also
for
do
to
of
date
Please
:
publication
this.
answer
French
the
Australian
your
edition,which, I
is agreed on.
believe,
C. Darwin
to
J, D, Hooker.
February [i860].
As
'
'
the
Origin
....
hit
peltedwith
variations
enough
evidence
more
changed by
*
Shannon.
1866.
Africa
and
which
on
in
born
ruary,
Feb-
Summerville,
at
banks
the
died
of the
ill-health
of
England
at
studies, the
given in his
results
of
Genera
of
'
Plants.'
African
returned
Torquay in
In
to
1835, Harvey went
his
to
(Table Bay)
pursue
were
South
Harvey was
Quaker familyof
was
He
botanical
absence,
to
time
and
;
Cape Town,
1838,
In
compelled him
for
should
be
It would
admit
me
Henry
181 1,
house
country
allowed
not
nature.
make
to
from
Youghal,
under
that
me
take
forms
that
deal
good
have
often
saltum.
William
descended
leave
fact,that I had
the
good
fine gradations
insensibly
astonished
it has
certainly
; and
of the
much
talkingso
against my
stands, Harvey's* is
now
to
obtain
return
in
to
to
1840 he
be
again
illness to leave.
compelled by
1843
he
obtained
of Botanical
1856 he
Islands.
the
to
the
Chair
University.
several
1854, 1855,
Australia,New
was
of
He
botanical
Botany
was
"
Fiji
Harvey
appointed
of Professor
in
Allman
Dublin
author
of
works, principally
Algae. (From
publishedin 1869.)
on
and
Dr.
1857
and
home,
successor
appointment
at
Trinity
Friendly
In
In
In
visited
the
Zealand,
reached
Professor
Dublin.
College,
and
the
Memoir
i860.]
DR.
Have
stones
with these
attacks than
two
the
letter
above
in
monstrosity
differed
served
much
so
the
as
from
type of
alluded
normal
selection,
according
to
which
Begonia
which
the
that
it
a
"
case
sport
might
"
have
order.
changes
take
Gardeners'
describes
Harvey goes
theoryof natural
is hostile to the
case
do
to
more
in the
He
to.
distinct natural
has
The
by Harvey
paper
argue
Annals'?
'
Theology
Begonia frigida,in
that such
to
on
But
in the
Science.
275
attack
beginningto fly.
are
[In
Wollaston's
seen
you
HARVEY.
supposed
not
are
to
showed
that
Begonia
of
means
Begonia
"
to
often
been
cautious
too
Here
the
fuller MS.
fish like
means
the
; he
the
assumes
it
case,
admitting great
in the mischief
a
It
permanence
and
generallysterile,
are
discussed
Chronicle,
probably know).
you
comes
that
and
sudden
of my
case
parallel
I have
tions.
varia-
abstract.
of
not
In
normal
gold-fish."
monstrous
Sir
to
D.
J.
Hooker's
father
reply,my
:]
[February26th,i860].
Down
My
no
mentions
in the Gardeners'
grant his
I have
by
of modification
father
My
Botanist,as
again comes
reference
With
wrote
the doctrine
attack
an
in not
be
to
the
"
monsters
But
bearingof
strange
whereas,
the
showed
selection.
first-rate
inheritable.
further
letter to
rather
me
of monsters,
misconceived
validityof
this post
by
by Harvey (a
seems
the
natural
in
case
I send
he
shake
to
had
Harvey
which
case,
calculated
by
Dr.
DEAR
HOOKER,
admirably good.
*
'Annals
You
and
"
Your
would
to
answer
have
Magazine
made
of Natural
Harvey
a
to
seems
giganticfortune
i860.
History,'
T
me
as
276
barrister.
'ORIGIN
THE
graduated
What
of the flowers
state
that
surely I ought to
you
have
I did
think
separated
lessened
of
world
would
ever
strikes
book
reference
(viz.I
Aspicarpa) is excellent,for
Proh
what
gonia.
Befrom
has
to
been
the
of
nor
pudor
lawyer
state
the
retrograde
step
of the
this,nor
be
would
in all details
monster.
say
which
classification
to
is
most
me
arguments
many
so
the
what
hermaphrodite
an
of the
fertility
But
about
Harvey's
of
own
doubt
no
to
sexes
my
as
think
I did not
The
cases
Begonia
monstrous
Your
of!
such
to
presume
know
forward
brought
not
omission
an
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
me.
lost in
mere
botanist !
dear
Farewell, my
in my
master
subject,
own
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
am
heartilypleased to
so
I wonder
what
is able at first to
will say.
Harvey
see
when
'
Origin of Species
by
H.
G.
Heidelberg.
into
appendix
instance,how
For
species,when
between
service
can
their
to
read.
these
rodents?
that
my
Bronn
father
conduct
added
'
the
respondingly
cor-
the translation
to
to
be
the
of various
Charles
him.
for differences
length of
actuallysuggested
was
to
appear
of the teeth
at
not
was
occurred
account
differences
criticises Bronn's
Professor
and
translation,
; e.g., the
afterwards
natural selection
possessors
who
palaeontologist,
difficulties that
the
(i860)of
superintended
was
obvious
an
on
argument.
an
German, which
told
been
I have
unpleasantto
an
in
hardly,I think,
one
Freiburg, but
at
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'
of the
approve
you
Classification.
chapteron
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that
see
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no
and
species
Darwin,' p. 91,
it will be
addition
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Bronn's
i860.]
remarks.
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translation
I shall
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and
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alterations.]
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C. Darwin
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history."
277
(pp.cit. p. 8y) is
not
and
TRANSLATION.
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notes
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profitby
translation.
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to H.
G. Bronn.
Feb.
Down,
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cordiallyfor
and
myself
thank
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preface. I
authors, as
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to
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heartfelt
my
with
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absence
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with
sincerely,
very
Darwin.
G. Broun.
H.
to
July 14 [i860].
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than
more
spiritwith
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much
too
have
praise of
the whole
read
books
like
future
some
my
book
has
hope
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naturalists who
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numbers.
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German
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three
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though
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views.
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but
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third
first few
the
generous
Germany,
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England, yet
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difficult
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'
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Sir,
HONOURED
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chapter
terms
thanks, and
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in
these
German
choosing good
With
C. Darwin
At
improved
fleeter individuals
Charles
with
of
respect,
I
part
habits
that similar
remarks
279
successive
by selecting
race-horse
; and
to
doctrine
Lamarckian
of the
the
TRANSLATION.
now
pamphlet-like
28o
'ORIGIN
THE
and
round,
coming slightly
have
done
round
ultimatelycome
I shall
immense
service
in
making
me,
with
to
consider
ever
admit
This
something.
certain
extent
which
sincere
most
that
to
to
gratefully,
Sir,yours
Darwin.
Charles
C. Darwin
to
C.
LyelL
[February 12th, i860].
Down
I think
much
time
it
lecture
(and
remonstrated
would
leave,that
of
am
Pray
say
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How
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make
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you
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; and
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not
Hooker
in
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reply to
10,
i860.
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scattered
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Gartner
through many
not
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it not
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suppose
for you.
given
was
at
the
followingletter
for information
the
HUXLEY,
would
we
It is of interest
"c.
breeding,hybridisation,
DEAR
here.
come
us
I do
Huxley's request
to
man.
as
giving
subject.]
Huxley.
Yorks,
Ilkley,
papers
well.
man
and
on
publishedhad
have
C. Darwin
My
infallible criterion
discussion
lecture
written
grand
and
Royal Institution,February
was
I have
bold.
very
universal
that
much
I should
so
hear
fix your
so.
fine and
very
was
sterility
am
glad to
so
to me
he
preliminary remarks
the
on
wasted
Huxley
species.
will,I
You
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me
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...
on
Pray believe
book.
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for the
you
conferred
have
will
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views.
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indebted
you
selection may
hope
me
myself deeply
[i860.
natural
that
gives
honour
and
SPECIES/
OF
Nov.
grand,Kolreuter
volumes
and
very
27
[1859].
grand,but
lengthy.
i860.]
had
pigeon
make
to
of
abstract
an
all ; facts
save
I have
taken
my
it.
But
no
; of
thrice
accursed
be
I would
have
would
handwriting
long
as
illegible,
course
would
care
so
copy,
in the
originalsources.*
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labour
on
be trusted
to
references,would
infinite
you
all
all
volume
papers
resume
from
bigger book
book), with
it would
but
excellent
two
collected
for the
in present
as
be
to
are
MS.
I fear my
Herbert's
Horticultural
at
the whole.
and
Amaryllidacesevery good,
'
281
fanciers.
be
to
be
fatal,
I fear.
About
well
as
breeding,I
of
Lowe, but
facts
and
I have
it is
and
of
No
trust.
facts
are
none
reallycautious
that I have
statements
in what
amongst
Mr.
sat
set
Bull had
This
of
is
his Pouters
following
letter to Professor
exemplifiedin
from
extract
earlier
an
Huxley
"The
:
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inaccuracy
of the
blessed
which
one) of
compilerspasses
all
am
bounds.
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without
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gang
have
described
as
fre-
hybrids
tittleof evidence.
other
(of
show
I must
how
give
A Belgian
we
jollyfellows work.
his
Baron
this
at
name
(I forget
moment) crossed two distinct geese
and
hybrids,which he
got seven
one
case
to
thick
volumes.
special
too
to
farthing;
the
I have
been
it
Runts
have
the
to
gain
it
For
Borough
hinted
was
all
found
breeders.
and
gin palacein
with
what
know
briefly. I
fanciers
a
but
journals;
subject,although
pigeon fanciers,when
crossed
caution
in
this
on
at
his views
think
and
hope
I state
evening
one
worth
are
yet, is far
given,as
instance, I
four
or
I look
then
but
is to
difficulty
important associatingwith
very
Youatt
horticultural
The
years.
complicated.
so
better.
think
not
by reading reallynumberless
two
or
I did
through three
agriculturaland
long
one
book.
one
no
practicalauthority;
most
up
of
name
more
all
work
can
scattered
are
picked
treatises
the
know
that
size ; and
gives
the
Latin
French
names
and
for
distinct
geese,
himself
propagated
generations
; and
is copied from
for
seven
statement
book."
and
name,
says
them
two
more
Chevreul
inter
se
the latter
book
to
282
'ORIGIN
THE
if you
had
of the
head
had
to do
endless
home
But
about
breeds.
Go
Shows
to
is
one
believe
For
lectures
your
sentences, if you
and
and
make
to
on
any
largely
few
to
improving
without
give you
want
how
know
not
nothing
can
brought
was
all treatises
Read
for
statements, "c.
mere
breeding
on
way.
animal, and
confirmed.
anecdotes
facts
getting up
domestic
one
of
pages
crossing
dangerous
this
scribblingfoolishly. I reallydo
am
advise
how
All
was.
vividlythan by
more
little
recognisedhow
process
scandalous
this
at
gave
with
generations the
far
fanciers
have
would
proceeding, you
has
all the
which
shakes
awful
and
solemn, the mysterious,
the
seen
[i860.
SPECIES.'
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amusing
audience
the
laugh.
I thank
think.
shall
particularlyfor tellingme
you
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we
can
in time
him
hear
whether
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him
in
two
or
copy.
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side,for he is,in
our
make
once
effect has
any
not
copy,
some
geologist.I
he
hope
first-rate
as
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produced
friend,but
which
paper,
owing
made
to
sent
to
; I
sentence
suspect he
me
on
curious
Prestwich
on
we
is
am
a
opinion,
my
of believers
set
compact
naturalists
what
was
doubting.
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writes
C.
Kingsley
that he goes
diagrams
has
to
with
With
Quatrefages
round.
come
long way
some
like mine.
mind
; says he
me
exhibited
hearty thanks,
most
Yours
very
tired,
C. Darwin.
[I give
being
one
the
conclusion
of the
as
earliest,
of his utterances
in
I have
that
"
of
avail
said
nature
Professor
well
as
support of the
the
in the
one
'
Huxley's lecture,as
of the most
eloquent,
'
Originof Species :
man
of
science
high
court
of
is the
sworn
But
reason.
is his honest
judge,and
of
assessor
preter
interof what
of the
hardly know
i860.]
of
HUXLEY'S
MR.
great physicaltruth,whose
been
preceded by
epoch
an
directlydependent
the
on
investigatethem
to
there
And
is
in which
battle,it yet
defeats
seems
mischievous,
But
"
this
it is at
those
to
day
whose
the
of the
slow
but
the
bosom
beautifies
to
life is
his life
that
bidding
check
its beneficent
but, unlike
the
of
of
Surely
this
study
"
the
kind,
do
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The
to
discredit
settlement
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of
plain
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in
threatening
learn
lesson
no
of
safe distance,
seems
to
they fly;
rises and
wave
they
think
who
meddlers
foolish
by preventing a thorough
service
this
thought
witnessed.
reformation,who
to
that
not
and
works.
seethingstrangely,and
the
its
ennobles
enthroned
the
not
and
first,
revolutions
the
these
noble
stay, and
Dane,
Origin of Species is
times, it
so
pebble on
man
hour
The
of the
duty
there
who
"
Newton's
use
and
to
progress.
Almighty
of His
demand
is
it is the
hundred
mighty tide,bearingon
the
in every
laughable,if it were
wave
old
to
wherewith
be
great
brave
of
sort
spent,
treasures
little Canutes
state,
after
of that
it would
"
slain ; and
of truth
advance
sure
maimed
pebble
ocean
thousand
the
see
great
this
of Galileo.
attempt
blasphemous.
and
rampant,
as
in the time
as
be
to
never
that the
life about
Crushed
oppositionto physicalscience.
sons
per-
investigatedwere
Will, and
tenacityof
not
estimable
most
only futile,but
not
was
reception has
phenomena
Divine
wonderful
universal
that the
maintained
have
283
LECTURE.
and
science, which
generation.
those
this
who
nineteenth
Through
tell ?
to
The
watch
practice as
will have
can
of
what
pass
it will not
be
will
general mind
the
signs of
century
great
as
those
trials and
in the
will
course
sore
the
see
which
tests
con-
of this
284
"
But
She
prove
may
demagogy
discussion
"
is the
reverence
is the life of
Will
the
you,
follow
Cherish
with
methods
to
those
who
will
would
the
see
mist ;
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depends
silence
late the
to have
duty
It
was
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surelywas
my
the
I
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that the
review
Annals
C.
to
in the
world
and
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'
"
Annals
of
cry
used
of Nat.
Hist,
but
who
power, and
marvellous
has
to
(p.13S)
have
we
such
whose
"
:
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the
But
when
attributes,
who
right to
tremendous
[February 15th,i860].
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as-
and
this
our
tribute
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so
'
of
cover
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reviewer
father's
to
to
to
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multitude
pays
candour,
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and outspoken as
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an
of
almost
sins.' "
parentheses(towhich allusion
made
above) are so frequentas
give a characteristic appearance
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is
one
no
obscure
to
eyes
of all ? "
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"
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pestilent
workings
a
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parentheses.
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in
cast
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so
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Lyell.
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passage
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would
"
I seen.'
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'
My
series,vol. 5, p. 132.
the exhas obviously taken
pression
woful
like
been
convinced
perfectly
am
in the
ask,
her, and
highest;
profithad I known
pleasurehad
my
my
have
loved
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father
crush
and
C. Darwin
third
of this
the future
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her,
else
how
upon
her,venerate
thought, and
in the
Guinever
of human
nation.
tion
implicitlyin their applica-
be
children
Arthur
science.
and
faithfully
all branches
our
unity in
public,deal
Listen
fear
of true
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people will
"
truth,and
her
to
of
free
; that
knowledge
handmaid
rate,
any
incompatible;
not
are
one.
alternatives
necessary
order
and
which
noble
people,at
one
the
not
are
and
grand
that,for
; that freedom
government
is
[i860.
will,the part
what
come
battle
the world
to
despotism and
that
the
play in
may
SPECIES.'
OF
that
verilybelieve
England
of
'ORIGIN
THE
Mr.
Wollaston's
pages.
wollaston's
i860.]
have
written
thanks
Oxford
Bishop of
he
in
me
Embryology,
in
paper
confirmation.
further
Henslow
the
further.
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the
he
out
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now
he
says
hair
on
the
I
everything,
of
I have
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have
version
of the
they
given by Lyell, to
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viz.
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spoken,
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logicalbook ever written."
vol. ii. p. 358.
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'
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sexual
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say
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about
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very
reallycurious
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as
me
letter of his.
words
whom
him.
such
as
againstgoing
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says
to
him
Geological Record,
with
so
and
of,for he
will go
used
conclusive
so
seen,
and
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the
quite agree
old
heard
require
talk with
some
this,and
turkey, and
an
which
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opposer
send
African
should
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of
stranger writes
male
curious
the
favour)how
our
subject.
mind,
reallyphilosophical
in
anything
eye !
and
of
I could
the eye ! !
about
the
had
the
at
nothing
read
never
about
not
of intervening
most
real argument
no
imperfection
thinks
but
does
depth
BunburyJ
as
argument
view
different opposers
opposition on
state
bringsup
an
that
me
; I have
shudders
also
; he
same
littleway
the
productions,but
staying here
is
is in much
he
he passes
I read Wallace's
The
.
Celebes
of the
character
interprets
mis-
Classification,
Morphology,
admirably good
to
only
distribution.
seems
paper
that the
clever,and
me
anticipatedabout
determining
the
in
been
has
him.
hear
to
Organs, "c.
it
thought
about
Like
of
fellow
pestilent
unphilosophical work
to
places.
"
"
pleased
most
seems
Rudimentary
and
MS.,f
sea
point
few
and
that he
know
review
the
speaking
be
it is the
explanation given
the
over
of
manner
says
The
read.
ever
that
that he would
have
kind
for his
him
told him
him, and
to
285
review.
than
he cannot
any
go
so
the
ZoologicalGeographyMalay Archipelago.""Linn,
Journ.
The
well known
i860,
Bunbury,
Palaso-botanist.
286
'ORIGIN
THE
far
as
do, yet he
It is
not.
at which
about
funny how
you
each
It reminds
when
no
account
on
good
no
me
his
first commenced
he
why
should
imaginary line
own
vividlywhat
so
geology
believe
to
"
told
was
all.
to believe
Ever
[i860.
reason
draws
man
halt.
to
but
little,
give
can
SPECIES.'
OF
affectionately,
yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
Asa
to
Gray.
Down,
My
by
them
to
best
both
for
Your
writes
with
charmed
of
the
of the
metaphor
you
undulations
the
in any
way
apple,and
the
attractive power
the fall of the
to
seems
me
that
an
solelyby explainingan
*
By Professor
The
Science
'
up
The
thus
'
will tell
me.
Journal
am
between
ingenious;
speaks
now
mine
running
never
but
of the
is itself hypothetical,
from
explaining
the
by explaining
of the
Planets ?
hypothesisis developedinto
ample
my
Agassiz
distinction
one
movements
lot of facts.
Again
and
It
theory
again
i860.
Arts,' March
Darwiniana,' 1876.
summed
is briefly
contrast
: "The
theory of Agassiz
and
only
as
if
known, except
Henslow.
American
Reprinted in
%
in the
light. Even
of
phenomena
the ether
inferred
are
such
way,
very
subject'ssake.
streamlet
they
from
you
Agassiz and
I hope
subject,
admirable
me
for the
instructive.^ By the
and
your
to
sheets
two
to-morrow
I thank
more
the views
and
seems
[i860].
Hooker
to
care,
18th
ago
them
sent
read.
far
week
with
I have
myself,but
anything on
and
Review
Your
which
curious
about
re-read
between
contrast
is very
them,
and
Lyell.
far the
heart
I received
"
read
returned
now
send
;f
Review
of your
are
Gray,
dear
February
their
over
world
as
equallyprimor-
"
i860.]
clerical
thank
you
for your
which
you
very
287
opinions.
aid
generous
in
properlyhold yourselfunbiassed.
My dear Gray, yours most sincerely,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
Several
"
and
me,
shocked
is not
[With regard
of the
He
me.
just been
the
Jenyns, a
with
visitingme.
liberal
more
sentatives
repre-
(alreadyreferred
:]
of interest
Kingsley
L.
little way
very
followingletter
the
Kingsley is
C.
has
of
Rev.
me.
will go
attitude
Church,
Charles
to) from
at
the
to
far with
go
Henslow
naturalist.
good
very
clergymen
C. Darwin.
to
EversleyRectory,Winchfield,
November
18th,1S59.
Dear
"
honour
of
living,I
have
sent
am
book
with
give up
In
the
that
us
of facts
and
the
do
From
while
but
judging
(1.)I
have
domesticated
dogma
of the
of your
be
true, and
me
slowly.
be
God
read
your
azves
your
me
name,
right,I
every
must
man
shiftyfox
and
brakes
of
he
at least,I
superstitions,
book
and
permanence
argument,
an
may
lead
shall
be
us,
last.
at
free
"
long since,
animals
encourages
prestigeof
written.
the villainous
into him
common
from,
of it
seen
and
unexpected bogs
run
two
up
learn
what
know
of all
I cannot
believed
Let
whom,
more
intuition,that if you
little.
care
into whatsoever
heap
I have
unexpected
to
book,
I fear
I have
clear
and
think
All
follow
"
if we
his
ought.
that
\6yq"
tco
me
the
much
liar ! Let
know
and
carefully,
more
as
also with
and
to
like
the
Naturalist
the
wish
most
for
you
that
poorly (in brain),
so
just now
both
That
scientist
least to observe
at
thank
to
book.
your
naturalists
should
have
Sir,
from
watching
plants,learnt
of
species.
to
the
crossingof
disbelieve
the
288
'ORIGIN
THE
(2.)I
graduallylearnt
have
of
conception
forms
Deity,
self
capable of
of intervention
act
had
questionwhether
made.
into
all forms
that
He
primal
needful
pro
fresh
required a
which
lacunas
noble
just as
created
He
that
believe
to
supply the
to
that it is
see
development
pro loco,as
tempore and
to
believe
to
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
be
the former
Himself
He
the loftier
not
thought.
it
Be
and
as
I shall
it may,
as
proof that
prize your
of the
aware
are
you
both
book,
for
itself,
of such
existence
as
person
Your
faithful servant,
C. KlNGSLEY.
father's old
[My
Brodie, who
for many
was
Vicar
years
of
Innes,of Milton
Down,
writes
in the
:
spirit
same
We
"
each
attacked
never
other.
Before I knew
Mr.
Darwin
that the
adopted,and publiclyexpressed, the principle
study of natural history,geology, and science in general,
I had
should
be
would
never
from
this
on
Of
his side.
the
course
quaint
discoveries
(itwould
are
a
subjectwere
speaking of
been
had
have
theologian,I
to
the
Book
Moses
more
can
the
from
Scripture came
any
when
Bible.
the
That
the
Divine
same
properly understood
am
discover
of
the
been
more
care
recently,I
'
much
of
Book
one
not
of himself.'
cannot
remember
effect
have had
may
be
contradiction
of Genesis
correct
facts without
we
may
to
say
naturalist,the lines
I do
to the same
sacredlyprivate now
the apparent
Genesis.
take
as
conclusion
with
very
conversations
purelyreligioussubjectsare
on
to
cross
views
His
reference
parallellines,and
in
ran
source,
without
and
of Nature
Book
"
pursued
are
given. We
of
; he
some
said, you
to
separate.
consideringwhat
attack
To
the
that
Moses,
and
ever
be)
deavour
en-
is said in
I think
effect he
same
posed
sup'
ought
you
in
as
wrote
published
i860.]
word
clerical
the
directlyagainstreligionor
read
to
by
ago
I received
would
laugh, and
reasonable
satisfied any
searched
vainly
has
are
you
differ and
yet feel
[of]which
I should
emphatic
of
feel very
find
from
to
have
to
differed,
one
that is
could
one
any
he
In another
whom
animosity,and
proud, if
three
terms
often
'
mortals
or
by saying that
up
writes, We
rare
shade
no
he
Down,
days
that I had
all Darwinians.'
and
me
of those
one
sums
were
of
for two
English language to
for
left
after I had
letter,
but
the
his contempt
express
admit
abusing me
he
man,
if you
couple
plain and
language sufficiently
in
pages,
After
for bitterness.
excuse
some
you
but
clergy ;
clergyman,
289
opinions.
can
thing
say [it]
a
of me.'
On
"
last visit to
my
table, 'Brodie
and
years,
once,
and
of
must
us
Darwin
I have
Innes
and
never
thoroughly agreed
we
then
Mr.
Down,
hard
stared
we
been
his dinner-
said,at
at
each
to
C. Lyell.
thirty
subject but
any
ill.'
"]
be very
C. Danvin
hit
exactly the
on
have
would
science
field has
made
have
you
edition,enlarge
coming
from
one
appear
the
prototype,
remark
VOL.
arises,and
that natural
II.
so
should have
It shows
unjustacts
many
how
what
me
much
grander a
gradationin
respect to Bronn's
life
But
how
just!
Kinnordy.
Lord
improbable.
glaringly
With
Judge
made, how
the
than
been
on
have
would
of the father
splendidanswer
pointsas yourself.
same
made
is
How
lawyer you
capital
you
That
"
Judge Crampton.
of
LYELL,
DEAR
as
will,if
eye,
and
try and
to
there
be another
all forms
on
make
both
less
objectionthat
likewise
to
selection is
not
it cannot
certain
extent
vera
causa,
be
Asa
I
was
shown
Gray's
much
'ORIGIN
THE
29O
interested
Newton
could
in letters this
used
gravity.
make
to
know
the
out
the
why
facts for
.
ask
recur
not
the
to
have
I thank
bred.
this
and
difficulty;
have
been
in my
for your
do
we
is
There
itself..
honest,
dis-
been
have
rand
(asTalley-
worse
impoliticI think,
much
in
always
reproduced
teeth, as
gradationoccurred amongst
you
almost
are
reallythink it would
the
the
use
peloricflower being
whether
thrown
been
have
fine
faced
I shall
have
of
ther
fur-
Natural
to
and
generallysterile),
said),it would
the bones
threw
they
would
not
monstrosities
have
not
live
are
remember
do
biggerbook.
for my
record
on
eye.
have
for it would
they
opposed
reallythink
do
wre
dwarfs
case
one
to
would
what
when
I cannot
and
fertile,
philosophy
Leibnitz
ground.
gravitywas
Harvey's monster
only
I believe
of
(I see)why
; but
that
know
the
to
curious
(evengiantsand
sterile
To
law
the
the law
introductoryremarks
some
higher animals
not
descends
weight
Is this not
You
of
it is
that
by saying
answers
argument,
same
very
it has.
As
is.
reallythus objectedto
had
movements
objected that
Religion !
gravity itself
what
of
Life
'
gravitybecause
of
the law
objected to
show
not
I have
chanced,
of
Brewster's
by finding accidentally in
[i860..
SPECIES.'
OF
H.
up
Holland
by showing
livingcreatures.
pleasantletter.
most
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
p.S#
read
I send
"
not
or
as
philosophy
at
the
close
of
the
By
not
Herbert
Spencer,which
fit.
He
puts,
better
than
argument
of the
letter.
about
I could
species;
but
make
to
my
almost
nothing
mind, the
one,,
any
of Dana's
Wollaston
then, as
can;
you
says,.
metaphysicalhead.
the way,
Alexander
our
by
think
you
idealistic notions
I have
letter
thrown
I have
Jordan,who
cultivated
races
are
at
Wollaston's
demonstrates
God-created
head, a
paper
metaphysicallythat
species.
by
all
i860.]
progress
Wollaston
some
at
opinion.
of
291
to
misrepresentsaccidentally,
book.
in my
passages
He
wonderful
reviewed, without
extent,
relooking
certain passages.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Down, February 25th [i860].
I cannot
I declare
book.
book
my
as
eminently
letter of
Ramsay's,
the
You
I have
as
to
care
have
no
zeal about
much
as
right
off my
saw
time
some
in which
about
be
to
I think
so
goes
very
letter from
ago
he
my
spit [i.e.
file]a
geologistconvert
Huxley,
to
your
taken
every
way,
at
seem
you
myself.
do
Rogers*
D.
heaven
to
unselfish !
important. By
H.
help wondering
very
far with
us
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Saturday March
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
then
Thursday
of
like
lion,but
able to go to London
not
was
expect
of
off
went
as
interested
much
too
much
in
by
old
type ; and
either
in actual
Professor
United
States
am
to
last note.
change
large class
Gray, of
shattered
and
an
on
me
will
years
in
at
facts
astonished
and
of Geology in the
1809,died
mind,
any
past
are, I
under
especiallyI
more
Museum,
men
rejoicedat
am
new
the
you
the subject
opinion on
about
care
the British
or
of
I think
...
of men,
secondly,nearly all
incapable of looking
Seriously,I
your
regard
Species. One
of which
a
that
on
till Monday,
has
lamb, but
never
suspect of naturalists,
as
had
bit.
good
I
you
fever
attack
a
day's work
fool for
was
was
What
"
3rd, [i860].
general question,
be taken
may
moderate
age,
fullyconvinced,
point
of view.
progress
Universityof Glasgow.
Born
1866.
U
which
in the
292
'ORIGIN
THE
the
subjecthas
says
but, with
The
book
my
such
will be
list,I
outsiders,as you
You
like
wise
he
the
man,
of
reverse
how
way,
actual
I
his
hear
so
not.
touched, "but,
is
Bentham
I should
such
behaved
It is
progress
only
you
think
; for if others
in
what
think
the
on
Thwaites.J
Dr. Boott
and
so
me,
spiritof
noble
I wonder
mean
silence
the
same
dereliction
of
; " it
might
I will not
be
send
had
turned
it to
an
into
one.
any
love of truth.
thinks
Lindley
I have
...
read
to
question.
Bentham's
about
vexed
am
about
letter from
againsthim
writes
of real value
to
reticence,for it
what
know
would
have
to
of observation.
of his powers
man
subjectwill
the
tongue." Perhaps
opinion ever
glad to
so
ridicule
been
that
magnanimity
would
astounding
holds
perhaps
years,
duty.f
am
He
think
memorandum.*
strong.
are
decide,otherwise
cannot
ten
feel convinced
say,
[i860.
enclosed
the
at
forgottenin
you
that
say
that
or
; look
made
SPECIES.'
OF
dear
Farewell,my
Hooker,
affectionately,
yours
C. Darwin.
P.S.
Is not
"
?
generalities
for
care
See
In
table of names,
father
my
wrote,
Bentham's
X
was
G.
Dr.
J.
in
born
K.
Sir
quite
now
derstand
un-
silence."
Thwaites,
who
men
and
valuable
at all
could
you
has left
he
Enumeratio
numerous
embodied
Plantarum
(1864). Dr.
Thwaites
in his
'
Zeylaniae
was
Fellow
of the Linnean
who
181 1, established
not
a descripcollections,
tion
of which
'
do
saying
your
result of this he
12th, i860),
(March
"
remember
p. 293.
letter to
subsequent
Hooker
J. D.
in the class of
Harvey
the above
Society,but beyond
littleseems
facts,
to have
been recorded
of his life. His death
reputation in this country as an
and
occurred
in
an
acute
Ceylon on September
expert microscopist
his seventy-second
at
in
nth, 1882,
especially
observer, working
Athentzum, October
year.
14th,
cryptogamic botany. On his appointment
as
Botanic
Gardens
Ceylon, Dr.
to
Director
the
at
Thwaites
flora
of
the
Peradenyia,
devoted
of Ceylon.
self
himAs
1882, p. 500.
" The
letter
is enthusiastically
laudatory,and
obviously full
genuine feeling.
of
i860.]
not
LIST
cret
works
him
write
to
OF
EVOLUTIONISTS.
on
Distribution.
unfruitful in every
very
[Here follows
the
of Mr.
referred
to
:]
there
were
any
Highly
you.
Andrew
Mr.
educated
1842
naturalist
to
to
New
Darwin
the
the
I did
that
by
was
I have
seeing
could
which
note
general
think
not
be
of any
kind
and
friendly
H.M.S.
Fly,
He
on
and
of
as
an
after-
more
of
and
Australia
was
the
was
14,
of the
Valentine
1798, died
known
'
one
the
He
many
papers,
book
good hand-
geology.
Searles
Feb.
than
me,
of
appointed Director
GeologicalSurvey of Ireland.
of
to
use
occasionallyhonoured
author
from
wards
Cambridge,
1846 he acted
at
Guinea.
but
which
late Director-
exploring expedition in
and
as
your
on
so
papers,
GeologicalSurvey.
Beete
Jukes, M.A.,
181 1, died 1869. He
f Joseph
F.R.S., born
from
flattered
Ramsay,
done
them
of the
General
was
the
among
which
with
notice
have
with the
Place, S.W.,
May 30th, 1882.
the letters
herewith
send
published in
request
with
compliance
I should
father.
your
In
"
night,I
last
received
Sir.
DEAR
his
:]
25 Wilton
My
found
Darwin,
to Francis
G. Bentham
have
in connection
is of interest
Bentham
respect.
memorandum
[The followingletter
mention
293
Crag.'
Wood,
1880.
on
born
Chiefly
the Mollusca
'ORIGIN
THE
294
was
admitted
never
made
communications
any
labours.
have
first occasioned
of
the
On
me.
had
been
on
observations
the
limits,and
the
British
and
facts
cultivation
by
limits when
to
defer
doubts
'
the
of
Origin
celebrated
his
collected
at
paper
Most
forms
when
original
paper
that
once
the
be
produced
those
; I
was
began
of
appearance
forced,however
was
to
fortunatelymy
on
of
assign their
for reconsideration
mine
menting
com-
believed
within
subject,and
Species,'I
in
number
be to
might
Darwin's, and
the
on
I then
withdraw
themselves.
conclusions,
and
of abnormal
tendency
Mr.
to
and
sincere
most
reading, in which,
difficult it
to
give
to
that
Flora, I had
way
had
never
disappointment they
what
illustrating
left to
and
for
otherwise,to
or
of his
one
theories
day
down
set
showing
he therefore
fixityin species,however
his
pain
severe
[i860.
me
throughout
the Linnean
at
mine
to
been
notwithstanding
read
intimacy,and
fully adopted
admirers, and
was
his
into
SPECIES.'
OF
to
reluctantly,
give
up
long-cherishedconvictions, the
my
study, and
I cancelled
labour
and
which
and
urged originalfixity,
in another
remainder
the
Review.'
full
my
have
since
Presidential Address
in the
address, issued
at
its
prize
meeting
so
that
I should
you
have
of
at
done
envelopes,and
the
month
not
by
Mr.
the
to
History
occasions
chiefly in
thirteenth
the
and
my
last
tion
Associa-
British
1874.
I have
of Mr.
returning them
UnfortunatelyI
Darwin
year,
Natural
various
on
in my
report
your
them.
the
views, and
letters that
obliged by
with
the
1863, and
Belfast in
highly the
feel
Darwin's
of
paper
acknowledged
form
of much
part of my
all that
form, chieflyin
of Mr.
adoption
results
Darwin's,
to
have
usuallyonly dated
so
that
they
are
when
me
not
them
not
in
order.
chronological
Yours
very
sincerely,
George
Bentham.
kept
by
any
i860.]
evolution
and
C. Darwin
history.
C.
to
295
Lyell.
[March]
Down
MY
the
Lyell,
DEAR
high
of intellectual
state
the little or
with
decided
of
the
progressiondepending on
the
with
of
the
bad
despotism, or
would
be
have
We
gain
to
apt
the
enjoyed
so
Vestigian
view
facts
which
rent
appa-
be
doctrine
I hold
of
progression in
For
government,
case
objectionat
no
of
animals.
in
of
state
after
or
ferocity,and
an
would
case
or
other
about,
conditions, it is
of other
corporealstructure
anarchy, or
talked
we
The
the
on
[i860].
me
Lamarckian
but
progression,
harmonises
to
views.
our
the
on
difficulty
all, and
development
just occurred
perfectlywith
necessary
what
no
it has
difficulty,
harmonises
Thinking-over
"
12th
irruption
intellect,
not
day.
your
Lady Lyell'svisit.
and
Good-night.
C. Darwin.
P.S.
By
"
subject)the
high
odd
an
ladies
of old
state
but
difficulty,
silenced
chance
attacked
Grecians
by good
Hence
them.
(forI
me
had
not
this
evening, and
into my
alluded
teeth,as
chance
I had
I have
thought
the
to
threw
the
unanswerable
an
answer
my
even
it worth
scribblingto
you.
C. Darwin
to
J. Prestzvick*
Down,
...
and
At
when
you
it
esteem
.criticisms.
future
some
Now
have
time, when
read
singular favour
I do
not
Professor
mean
of
'
my
if you
you
Origin
wrould
have
of
in the
12th
little
Species,'I
send
of unreasonable
Geology
March
me
any
[i860].
leisure,
should
general
length,but
Universityof
Oxford.
such
296
as
'ORIGIN
THE
could
you
include
various
memoirs
receive
your
not
; if I
you
could
I have
stagger
had
in
you
ever
C. Darwin
be
so
slight a degree
by
from
cold
eye
made
the
complaint,and
make
often
in
me
me
some
You
like to
may
(as
reviewed
respects. He
would
geology,to
almost
friend
It
that
man
in
believed
exaggerated!
my
every
word
See
the
the
great gaps
of
he blamed
quotationswhich
thought
it,and
There
follow
means
no
has
this
been
the
one
being
old
dear
my
you
Jukes
several
of its
one
I asked
I told
The
ignorant
was
But
every
fact,geologistshave
invented
geologicalsurvey),and
In
fair in
who
one,
Sedgwick
evidence)has
Spectator*
hardly
please
to
last letter
denudation
of the Irish
for he
the
is hard
the Weald
book.
his noble
feather
sick !
me
my
the
dogma.
the
structure
sight of
geologicalformations, instead
Sedgwick,with
remember
had
universallyadmitted
indignation.
about
any
of
this stage of
internal
from
actuallylead
I
me
thought
over
on
unfairly in
that
send
April 3 [i860J.
it,makes
at
is
suppose
successive
between
The
abuse, and
much
got
reviews
certain
savagely and
me
includes
notice
an
Lyell feel
I and
the
when
I have
I gaze
about
hear
to
you
best
Gray.
uncomfortable.
very
my
of
particulars
trifling
small
now
of
time
but
all over,
whenever
peacock'stail,
of
the
well
I remember
criticisms,
severe
Down,
....
or
trulyobliged.
to Asa
pervert
convert
disagreeableto
be
not
me.
to
me
kicks
hearty
some
should
opinion,I certainly
your
expect
fear to annoy
nor
If it would
friends.
be of real service to
might
that
your
eminently glad to
be
I should
that
suppose
be satisfied ;
should
for
much
so
[i860.
always admired
I have
letter.
opinion,which
do
Pray
in
SPECIES.'
OF
is rabid with
;
to
may
you
leave
(who
is head
much,
me
it not
of
out
at
all
gauging
prodigy of
present letter.
860.]
TICTET.
just,and
and
I agree
reviews, I think
expected
to
by
review
see
It has
in that rank
much
so
about
book.
of
Europe
What
helped
to
make
Of
I do.
I do
that
I should
[In a
therefore
so, and
me
Gray, ever
"
feel
now
article in the
in the
in all
have
if
gratefully,
what
the
des
de
Sciences
i860.
liothequeUniverselle,'Mars
article is written
and
considerate
by
will be
of real value
they are
its seductive
in the
has
'
Origin
led
not
arguments
away
lieve
be-
to
doctrine
double
'
naturalists,
have
made
tranchees
cludes
con-
of
pencilmarks
n'avoir
such
use
notions
the
of the
abusive
!
Any
word
"
"
theorie
La
s'accorde
des
l'histoire
which
passage
struck my father as
valuable,and oppositewhich
to
being
to
dangerous
modification.
and
the
author
quoting :
Darwin
M.
courteous
tone,
saying that
if
especially
seems
in
worth
la Bib-
my
written
and
to
first broached
had
is made
is the
else could
that
suppose
Archives
24
Sedgwick
one
Darwin.
reference
of
misrepresentation
would
ignoramus
that
certain
Lyell
March
Spectator,
Spectator. No
And
terms.
he
was
forgiveme
must
you
most
yours
Sir Charles
letter to
Sedgwick'sreview
by
with
you
there
C.
The
appear
man
becoming the most egotistical
proud pre-eminence! Well, you
my
dear
My
'
self
your-
can.
you
never
so
to
ever
think
rather
posed
op-
class your
I shall weary
I fear
and
think
you
favour,
all the
not
service
good
too
But
eyes.
in
arguments
and
difference
only
muck
perfectlyfair
our
opposed, though
me
my
to
opposed, than
as
done
is
says;
weight
Please
one.
in my
chance
good
less
which
he
word
this the
means
any
Geneva)
every
arguments
to
more
to
attaches
he
that
being
of
Universelle
297
opposedone
review, namely,an
in the Bib.
SEDGWICK
"
types
the
is
good,"
mal
formes
de
avec
bien
qui paraissent
temps
que pendant un
On
en
pourraitciter des
d'exemples,tel que les
et definies
vecu
limite.
centaines
les
ichthyosaures,
belemnites,les ammonites, "c."
born in 1809,died 1872 ;
Pictet was
reptilesvolants,
les
he
was
Professor
Zoology at
Geneva.
of
Anatomy
and
29$
'ORIGIN
THE
doctrine, that
marked
the
old
dear
breaks
intervals
long
Sedgwick
liim
that
good
and
man
could
; but
now
The
But
need
kind
and
conclude
deserted
and
thereby
that
"
indicates
heart
from
be
another,
roast
Sedgwick's."
as
the review
with
these
expressing
objections.
of
detestation
my
unflinching materialism
because
;
"
utterlyrepudiates final
demoralised
I will tell
him
may
further
without
because
man
taken
any
question.
poor
ralised
Demo-
"
inquisitorcould
an
inductive
the
physical truth
that
are
of its
the
But
unfair.
I talk with
noble
on
go
theory,because
it has
to
believe
formations
successive
on
ever
I know
hardly
I cannot
the
If
followingpassages
"
as
"
[i860.
It is very
rabid
seems
never
yet have
between
of time.
understanding
SPECIES.'
OF
causes,
understanding
the
on
"
I believe
that
but
cannot
the very
Darwin
is
his materialism
regard
untrue, because
that
opposed
opposite of
the
to
inductive
atheist ;
an
obvious
it
of nature, and
course
And
truth.
I think
atheistical.
as
though
I think
it
intensely
mischievous."
"Each
of
series
assumptions,
and
You
make
cannot
facts
is laced
together by
repetitions of
good
the
of
out
rope
false
one
principle.
string
of
series
of
air
bubbles."
"
But
any
very
startlingand
boldly
produces
which
with
investigation,
they
will
that
anything
must
be
from
the
'
be
hidden
very
kind
to
averse
be
must
original,
(apparently)
and
in its favour
and
reflection,
of
something
minds
some
predisposes them
careful
to
in
and
(supposed) novel
likely to
be
much
of
pleasing excitement
if
; and
the
there."
well
'
they
are
of
labour
conclude
that
unused
accurate
what
is
production of originalgenius,
opposed
to
"
of
tained
main-
imposing plausibility,
prevailingnotions
paradox,
must
be the
'
whatever
truth
'
comes
supposed
to
i860.]
In
the
which
charge
the
charge
in such
phrases
British
Association
C. Darwin
in the
review
"express
God
I
CARPENTER,
DEAR
Med.
'
admiration
my
it will be
largelyread, for
you
extremely
for the
much
cannot
yourself. I
as
not
word
not
I admire
than
part
as
it is
impossiblenot
the
give
Hooker
from
forcible.
Lyell.
write
I
In
am
fact I
more.
no
and
to
much
am
With
zoology.
pleased in
in
fit of
cordial
you
I do
not
to
have
care
readers, I
such
I cannot
few
men
out
well balanced.
so
your
pick
of
extent
The
extracts
what
you
say
enthusiasm, and
But
which
you
and
most
also
about
had
better
thanks,
Yours
very
sincerely,
C. Darwin.
any
See
father
an
in
letter from
interesting
Mr. Stephen's'Life of
one
knowledge
chosen,
excellently
me
to
to
It is all
with
hope
respect
that
all,so
rest.
seem
so
criticism
to be struck
geology, botany,
in
with
hope
But
non-scientific
of the
me
great effect:
praise.
I
let
I
and
your
admiration, for
warm
much
so
the
at
must
produce
though
approbation
have
; and
better
; and
the
finished
essay,
such
too
this is at all
that
say
it must
express
book, I fear,far
my
gratifiedme
very
to
is not
You
able
this most
at
at
defence
minute
this
Review.'
Chirurg.
made
was
Carpenter.
B.
I have
"
1861.*]
in
W.
to
Down,
My
reasoning ;
This
"
as
father
my
of
repeated his
Fawcett
Macmillan's
'
defended
false method
method."
of the
meeting
of
in
nauseam,
Baconian
true
employing
occurs
ad
time
of
number
vigorously
Fawcett
Magazine,' i860,
299
December
the
in
review
from
carpenter.
dr.
101.
300
'ORIGIN
THE
SPECIES.'
OF
C. Darwin
C.
to
[i860.
Lyell.
April 10th [i860].
Down,
My
4th
; I
am
Hooker
sick of
little of
been
is
He
and
the
(who
that
has
of
plantsbeing in
a
good
write),
certain
certain
"
By
that
but
aid
we
This
pigs."
the way,
On
become
it is
was
said
by
great blow
of natural
selection.
less I doubt
its power
for
'
to
Edinburgh/ f
which
He
is
I think I have
'Westminster
'
to
me
from
Wyman
The
more
pigs
their
and
you
hoofs
doubt
of the young
hardly
read.
admit
cannot
it,the
of
changes.
I fear
on
seems
to
I think
small
without
it
they suffer
could
that
in the
the black
kill most
me
atrociously severe
I do
sends
damaging.
There
terms.
degrees sterile.
who
great and
not
some
we
men
I could
weight enough
pigs lose
for
by selection,
great
as
capitalhits,but
red, and
white
the
in
being praised.
asking about
the potency
It is
Gray
of all the
their bones
nut
extent,
perish, and
white
Asa
balanced,,
at
; but
allowed
hardly
case
well
(I have
a
and
subject.
he
reallyquite
books
with
the
me.
by Carpenter
extracts
advances
for
thoroughly proper
in
you
Evergladesof Virginia.
eat
excellent
reviews
divergefrom
will
had
I have
am
review
Hooker's
by Huxley,
of varieties
case
To
review
him
convinced
and
least interest in
that he much
know
not
full dose
long
very
makes
to feel the
brilliant
discusses
Carpenter speaks of
is
you, but
Review,'very good
Chirurg.
and
lengthas mine,
get Hooker
is
anything
There
brilliant.
not
I should
Torquay.
at
are
plethoraof reviews,
myself.
the 'Medical
but
that you
of the
note
as
has
There
hear
for your
much
you
and
time,
Thank
"
glad to
very
amused
have
my
LYELL,
DEAR
I have
is
by
will
be
very
Huxley's lecture,
Review,'April i860,
Edinburgh Review,' April i86d.
i860.]
and
for
uncomfortable
It
spite of
many
He
parts.
inverted
misquotes
commas.
painfulto
It is
hates
Matthew
in the
hated
this would
long
ordered
be
shown
excused
be
Naval
which
book,
my
Chronicle*
from
extract
and
a
then
I have
Mr.
Patrick
work
his
on
'
Naval
the
book,
tion.
Selec-
Natural
few
some
as
he
are
passages
heartilyhope
my
worse
be the
to
case
always
said
that
surely
day. Anyhow,
some
having discovered
in not
kindest
that your
and
Hooker
book, and it is
tired
"
if that be
But
to
the fact in
one
work
poor
be successful.
may
Falconer, and
Huxley (with
marvel
work
Torquay
remembrances
extremely pleasant.
my
Erasmus
not
Timber.
pretty well.
of
within
degree with
intense
about
thing
developed anticipation!
Give
many
rather
not
and
I have
on
bitter
alteringwords
passages,
may
the
scandalously misrepresents
some
it
over
I did
; indeed
against me
Saturday's Gardeners
publishes
Timber
appreciate all
to
me
be
curious
In last
done.
it made
got quite
have
it
enjoyed
three
we
me.
for
Now
It
myself.
but
study
remarks
of the
all
discover
night ;
one
requires much
to-day.
301
that
Not
together.
So
Hooker.
against
bitter
very
REVIEW.'
'EDINBURGH
THE
dear
and
Mrs.
Hooker
hope
Huxley)
he is
were
is tired to death
prodigy if
possible. Farewell,my
you
are
not
dear
Lyell,
affectionately,
Yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
Down
My
odious
DEAR
HOOKER,
that
quarrels,
[April13th, i860].
Questionsof priorityso
"
I should
*
esteem
it
April7th,i860.
often
great favour
lead to
if you
would
read
the
should
send
it
date
the
to
The
I do
but
would
not
friend
as
you.
compared
too
unpleasant.
has
been
much
Matthew's
Patrick
by
of your paper
ledge
I freelyacknow-
Mr.
that
by
of
of natural
that
no
one
has
I have
species,under
will
neither
of
that
tion
edi-
for,I will
In
and
Leader
'
was
'
complained that
Saturday Analyst
scarcelyfair in
"
the
surprised alluding to Mr. Darwin
as
of
the
of
apparentlyany
origin
parent
species,
and
on
is called
feel
I, nor
naturalist,had heard of Mr.
Matthew's
views, consideringhow
work
If another
foregoingeffect."
article in the
an
seeing
other
more
Mr.
apologies
entire ignorance
unsatisfied,and
the
I think
selection.
the
to
no
planation
ex-
offered
work
do
can
publication.
insert
you
to
my
for my
of my
cipated
anti-
the
years
many
which
origin
Matthew
means
suppose
offer
of his
my
you.
Matthew
cation
communi-
subject is-
by
not
Arboriculture.
in the number
April 7th.
I do
than
Perhaps
the
on
on
sentations.
misrepre-
answer.
Huxley
gratuitousattack
interested
to
again,and
the
at
more
that
sorry
(Gardeners'
362,April21st):
much
been
I have
so
not
think
and
answer
am
resolved
wrote
Chronicle,i860, p.
that
astonished
am
glad I
the
about
father
atrociouslyattacked.
thus
care
My
name
old
friends.
my
The
you
Hooker,
and
and
am
to
the
to
Huxley's lecture.
passages,
but
selfish,
it is
dated
good, true,
so
for science
much
over
gone
But
Mr.
have
to
me
that
dear
My
it ;
return
thought
it.
over
eye
soon.
hair-splitting
mere
the
therein
letter,please
my
will,but
you,
your
be
be
are
passages
it would
alter
little stronger
'
I have
...
"
run
question),
any
let that
seems
grandly eloquent.
be
that
owe
for
thanks
Many
but
object to
Chronicle
that
it proper
hardly be
can
If you
expect
think
post it,and
you
places ;
[i860..
Gardeners'
objectto
not
it is
which
Matthew's
that.
notice
of this there
on
in three
scattered
to
day
in Mr.
If you
it full and
in the
case
than
(and
SPECIES.'
OF
enclosed.*
think
if you
and
to
'ORIGIN
THE
302
Timber
to
and
that
Mr.
Darwin
than
more
"
that
published
attempts
Nov.
24, i860.
to
whole
prove,
years ago."
and
Leader y
twenty-nine
Saturday Analyst
the
i860.]
DESIGNED
Lyell
how
and
many
that
know
many
seemed
you
done
often
C. Darwin
this
to
C.
the
DEAR
LYELL,
letter from
Torquay.
to
Wells.
about
"
there
quoted citations,and
the
as
London
to
I have
(ifI
do
that
thought
ten
on
Sunday
will
not
sit
one
more
April [i860].
Do
in London.
and
let
this
be
must
admit
it.
should
It
natural
for
you
at
of your
the
But
been
due
In
the
order
must
of
crop
which
agree
Deity
believing in
beings, in
breakfast,but
I must
honest
mulated
accu-
creative and
that
maker
in
an
potent
omni-
everything,,
can
of
hardly
universe
uncalled
such
has
truth, I
a
about
meet
we
man
know
and
say
variations
to "the
sense
will'
quarter before
time.
Pigeon,which
?"
yet, in
if you
the
party,
and
opinion when
your
preposterous that
seems
of
interposition
about
so
come
Sir B. Brodie's
London,
of
I shall
so.
Deity
admitted
about
care
sillyfancies.
whatever
have
me
of Brahma
omniscient
; but
quasi-theological
controversy
our
have
pleasehis caprice,
sustainingpowers
and
the alteration
do in
sit with
of the Pouter
thingsto
consider
you
do
to
thought
Hooker
in this remark
not
long-
writing
you
review.
14th,for
and
what
point out
take up much
so
about
word
the
of
morning,
long,and
to
nice
get your
hear
contrary)call
the
to
natural selection,and
the
I resolved
accumulation
hear
duty
is truth
Saturday
on
an
not
of
journey.
prevented me
'
to
of letters
press
particularly
glad to
was
Huxley thought it a
up
glad
very
You
same.
Lyell.
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hated
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remembcr
Indian
your
if
as
thought it
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him
to
who
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thought
before
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bad
were
you
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man
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late.
till too
absurd
that
30J
overworked.
were
you
VARIATION.
me
for,I
in
thinking such
can
see
in
interpositions
strange and
admirable
no
the
an
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case
of
peculiarities
have
been
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and
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in
adaptation to the
the life of
I cannot
me
producing the
be arrived
hard
of
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name
gradations are
"c. "c.
natural
from
towards
structure
any
excited
have
exquisitestructure, if such
most
by gradation, and
at
this would
in
difficulty
any
the water
sailingabout
crop,
hydrostaticpressure,
see
benefit.
own
into
wading
nature
admiration
laws
[i860.
creature's
its inflated
by
up
What
for the
of
state
SPECIES.'
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naturally selected
in search
"
'ORIGIN
THE
3C4
For
selection
structure
can
experience how
which
least
at
some
known.
not
Ever
vours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
Asa
conclusion
The
"
Gray,
such
is that
which
at
will,"or the
"
come,
like
intellect,
originof
"
Hooker,
J. D. Hooker.
to
it cannot
my
relations
say
the
reviewer
speaks so
folk !
[April18th, i860].
is
The
very
'
April i860.
is written
sent
dead
reviewer
would
clear view
Edinburgh
Poor
dear
me
the
says
says, that
But
if the
one
will
from
the
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ment
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doctrine
full of monsters
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article is
no
article
an
of
simple
against me.
be
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article,*because
object,that
this writer
Review.'
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passage
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of the
which
were
have
strugglefor
existence
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geologicalstrata
failed.
definite
funny.
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highly of
no
States,clever, and
United
true,
possiblybe
very
so
's letter.
neighbour,Mr. Norman,
clever
My
I return
"
in this
on
predestinationand
Down
dear
told
evil."
C. Darwin
My
I have
as
is touched
question,as
I have
"
By
Professor
Review,'
Bowen,"
The
my father's copy.
referred to occurs
at p. 488,
on
where
the author
to find
"
varieties
less"
an
the
an
"
says that
infinite number
we
ought
of other
unconscious
cause."
i860.]
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I
charmed
with
We
think
I wish
it.
the
much.
so
was
have
'
Review
with
taken
your
own
precious number.*
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look.
would
you
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mistake
by
National
'
Adam
305
must
you
of
numbers
like
glad you
am
....
REVIEW.'
AMERICAN
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
Down, April25th [i860].
My
Gray,
DEAR
for the
will
head
my
latelyread.
cells,i.e.about
the
I have
bees'
do,
much
add
not
strange view
a
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object is
reviews
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reviewer
then
made
keep it,and
reviews
which
is wrong
about
lesser distance
; any
not
would
of the
some
places
I believe
be
to
attended
much
to
false.
wholly
instinct
and
the
was
no
II.
to
ask
good
doubt
for
Times
could
for
procure
Wednesday,
of my
curious
How
review
in the
Laugel,said
M.
if you
you
March
book, which
me
28th.
I should
striking
most
is not
review
Carpenter's
VOL.
I do
and
(i.e.
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April 1st,by
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keep.
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to
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have
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between
; which
York
very
like to
much
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distance
never
of the New
copy
Lyell wished
you
chief
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a
has
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of
minds
meant
sure
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'
developed instinct
suspect
Origin
'
thank
to
the
lie outside
would
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me
even
or
'
to
book.
my
quite confused
is
the
seems
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on
doubt
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on
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damage
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copy
I have
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refers
of the
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to
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Revue
des Deux
clever
very
January number,
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man.
containing Dr.
Origin.'
X
306
'ORIGIN
THE
about
Hooker,
was
pleasant;
very
but
I think
Plantarum'
will
in
it,so
Distribution
I have
details
be!
not
as
variation
dear
himself.
will not
for
slowlyas usual,at
very
Gray,
always trulyand gratefully,
C.
to
have
last
copy
this
Henslow
from
[May 8th,i860].
Canadian
'
yours.
who
that
batteryon
open
says
Society. Anyhow,
Philosophical
what
I state.
must
be
the
on
there
the
discuss
the
the climate
Old
was
of
to
much
shall
whether
we
the
period,and
or
coal-making
ever
flora.
honoured
do
by
of the
you
nor
attend
not
to
that there
varying (seep. 56
'
Origin').
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notions,but I preferto
own
my
plants
and
animals
World,
or
having migrated
when
conversely,
important, as
back
discover
find it not
am
on
Cambridge
singlecases,
not
genera
the New
was,
in detail.
case
Behring'sStraits. It is most
livingforms of plants going
coal
contradict
edition
bigotry for
notion
Atlantis,my
from
the
the
much
am
the second
be sheer
It may
to
large
doctrine)
subject,in
I do not
at
me
letter
Sedgwick
If I
while
moment's
(on our
I had
while
is it worth
the
at
think it worth
not
Naturalist.'
I will borrow
morning,
night,to
Monday
for the
sent
Darwin.
Lyell.
Down
mersed
im-
questions.
C. Darwin
procure
much
Geographical
cannot
Genera
domestication.
Yours
What
'
too
get
time
steadily,but
under
days, and
Bentham's
and
some
spare
such
work
to
My
hope he
to
other
and
begun
on
few
he overworks
[i860.
SPECIES.'
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far in time.
so
the
so
you
flora of the
anomalous
working
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as
over
line
say, to
of
see
I wonder
dry
land
of
the
swamp
the
blessed
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got
letter from
It shows
...
think
cause
another,I get
or
on
that
scientific
that I
elected
am
Naturalists
some
as
profligate
respondent
cor-
there do
think
many
not
here.
me
Lyell,yours gratefully,
dear
My
of Natural
Academy
the
Philadelphia,announcing
of
Sciences
one
307
morning
This
SOCIETY.
PHILOSOPHICAL
CAMBRIDGE
C. Darwin.
P.S.
What
"
worked
by
grand fact
the
about
extinct
man
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
[May 13th, i860].
Down
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
;gladto
How
see.
thank
and
As
you
I send
stag'shorn
Henslow, which
I return
"
good
of him
to
wrere
curious
to
me.*
defend
was
very
I will write
him.
said you
letter. He
his kind
Thomson's
hear
f opinion,
to us.
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
[May 15th, i860].
Down
not
reading
may
all attack
your
As
hardened.
the
is worth
me
It is
essay.
their
to
nothing.
is in such
paltryit
How
at
X., Y. and
as
%
incrediblypaltry.
hearts' content.
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case-
fies
signifogiesin Cambridge, it really
their attacks
It makes
doing.
men
me
as
proof that
resolve
to
work
our
buckle
on
my
Against
Indian
botanist.
laborateur
in
the
Thomson,
Thomas
t Dr.
He
Hooker
was
and
col-
somewhat
similar
position. See
p. 313.
ThomX
308
'ORIGIN
THE
armour.
But
plainlythat
see
SPECIES.'
OF
it will be
[i860.
long uphillfight.
of
the pan.
And
day.
if
But
I
all ?
at
do
that
see
the
battle
what
with
to
progress
about
say
the
fighting.I
Bentham
but
you,
surelygain
is worth
Does
so.
know
not
shall
it,we
to
think
you
like it much
I should
health.
now
that
deeply hope
all stick
we
Oxford.
it must
depend
on
Yours
affectionately,
most
C. Darwin.
to C.
C. Darwin
Lyell.
Down,
My
LYELL,
dear
I send
"
letter from
there.
how
hotly the
battle rages
very
just in
remarks, though
and
how
good
his
admirably free
fellow.
of Calcutta
of him.
; not
informs
lately
Henslow
that the
that it is
J made
[sic]
Clarke
at
subjectwas
regular
Hooker
modest,
too
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be
must
Thomson
thinks
so
highly
have
a
Oxford
for the
address
abbreviated
and
and
then
Professor
onslaught on my
Cambridge PhilosophicalSociety,but
savage
defended
from
meeting
of
in
given
The
19th,
for
% The
fessor
seems
is
well, and
me
legitimateone
preventedhim
t Sedgwick's
i860.
Wallace,,
letter from
Sedgwick f
somewhat
but
much,
that
me
the
to
seems
His health
going to
I will enclose
show-
to
from
one
jealousy.
or
[i860].
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laudatoryand
too
envy
Asa
18th
Henslow
book
Perhaps
from
Also
May
maintained
investigation.Since
late William
of
to
Anatomy.
have
I
J. W.
that
Clark)did not
the attack.
am
assured
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support
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father
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misunderstood
informant.
Clark
Clark,
by
father
his
Mr.
(Prof.
Sedgwick in
i860.]
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then
subject,but
is
treated
is
simply
show
to
make
effect
will do
up
subject is
best.
my
your
these
of
me
...
C. Darwin
to A.
R.
Mr.
DEAR
letter from
remarks
has
you
The
WALLACE,
Amboyna,
and
your
pleased me
much, and
very
imperfectionof
weakest
of all ; but
almost
branches
of
yet I
find
of
than
science.
easilyconverted
accustomed
progress
of
I admire
the generous
Most
opinion on
would
persons
jealousy.
How
You
the
Before
in which
in your
born
1800,
free
you
you
speak
would, if you
had
my
effects of
fall.
and
afterwards
the
bridge on
Professor
from
the
of Geo-
logy
at
gave
1874,
'
Rede
May
at
'
Oxford.
lecture
at
15th,i860, on
of
other
He
felt
it
of
Life
annually by
and
in
is
the
paid by
an
Chief
Justice,in
'The
Henry
VIII.
or
common
of yourself.
the
is
earth.'
appointed
Vice-Chancellor,
left
endowment
Cam-
book.
the work
on
Lecturer
how
envy
done
done
Rede
The
some
modestly
leisure,have
Succession
my
of this
be
the
say
speak of
far too
I have
me
are
more
about
let
you
are
geologists
must
to
seem
But
died
there
pursuers
positionhave
Phillips,M.A., F.R.S.,
John
say, the
you
telling you
subject,you
with
weakest.
that
think
letter
because
simple naturalists,
manner
nobly
mankind.
failingof
than
reasoning.
to
your
agree
are
is,as
pleased to
am
Your
which
...
more
morning
completely
GeologicalRecord
natural
you
18th, i860.
May
book.
my
I most
geological converts
more
all the
courage
this
strongest and
are
the
ing
fight-
high approval of
on
I received
"
dated
too
worth
Wallace.
Down,
My
Gray
multiplied
hope
and
courage,
same
on
the
on
splendidlyAsa
that the
me
keep
you
Cambridge
at
fairly.How
The
assuredly I
for,and
attacks
it very
battle.
fightingthe
attacks
given lectures
has
Phillips
309
the
Rede,
Lord
reign
of
'ORIGIN
THE
IO
Agassiz sends
attacks
Lyell keeps
; but
me
firm
as
the
his
conversion,which
from
him
sent
is
at
am
work
at
get
on
wearied
But
you
letter,and
with
science,and
deeply
most
in every
I have
not
that
hope
Yesterday
yet
been
I shall
which
and
With
sincere
felt wishes
always
you."
publish in
of
shall
this
before
swarms
that
the
seen
sagacious man,
very
hope
believe
way,
declare
ago, in which
years
ill-health
I
publish
Schaaffhausen,* has
will have
details.
these
with
one
slowly.
very
very
is
some
from
will
will then
essay.
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but
largerwork,
my
separate volume.
I
German,
nearly anticipated;
"
you
splendid
santly
inces-
in defence.
universallyknown.
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pamphlet.
said,
that
Lyell
hero
Man,' and
pamphlet publishedsome
view
same
is
now
Hooker's
received
I heard
of
but
message,
this autumn
tower, and
[i860.
Gray fightslike
GeologicalHistory
have
you
personal civil
Asa
as
on
'
me
SPECIES.'
OF
letters,
have
not
thanks
for your
for your
in
success
me,
Your
sincere
well-wisher,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
May
Down,
My
your
GRAY,
DEAR
pleasant letters
very
of
remittance
the
kind
Again
"
trouble
For
account.
you
have
the
one.
generosity;
[their]
am
not
Hermann
all
Schaaffhausen
Bestandigkeit
der Arten.5
und
Verhandl.
in
taken
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my
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pleaat all
Appletons'
ledgement
acknow-
formal
further
cation
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acknowledgement
generosityin
the sale
Umwandlung
any
[i860].
for
you
I return
me.
have
for it is
'Ueber
thank
simpletruth
for
of your
surprisedat
to
am
Appletons,pray
for
at
the chance
I send
to
"22.
of
I have
22nd
opinion.
my
diminishing ;
my
See
extreme
'
Origin
i860.]
surpriseis
been
has
the
at
stop
that
shamefully imposed
it would
thinkingthat
to
REVIEW.'
'EDINBURGH
THE
in
soon
be nice easy
he heard
will notice
in 'Silliman'
(and
Hooker), and
from
book
explaininghow
do
not
was
I have
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glad
to
see
less useful.
or
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write
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me
which
points
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will
Review
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will
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our
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slip. In
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reviews,
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Hooker
not
more
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separate
Kirk
all
time
on
be very
other
on
after
my
review
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shall touch
that
in
simple organisms
Dunns,*
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to
all forms
severe
very
treats
reviewer]
get
be
History.
out
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Thwaites
believe,that
reviews,whether
of
surely
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Rev.
ago
point
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But
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can
in
gone
is,as
Edinburgh,'pray
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there
573,
p.
time
all the
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that you
say
on
most
American
some
allude
you
5th,
You
review
good
any
day
'Origin.'Judging
from
one
in Natural
the sale
the other
me
in the
there
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book
am
there
British,'
by
dabbler
minister, and
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in the
it
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I expect
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public
fifty
copies had
seen
remarks, the
still existing.
me
just
advance,
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not
the additions
letters
from
wrote
that
hours.
previous forty-eight
the
the
they bought
reading.
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doubt
No
! for
on
311
of
and
my
question.
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me
reviewers.
With
is
always painfulto
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statement
made
was
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father
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ship
author-
authorityof
letter to
wrote
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Saturday
bewildered.
noticed
Mr.
Have
Huxley
you
Review?
seen
of you
defence
very glad of the
the
reviewer
wish
of myself. I
my
on
he
is,
I wish
am
and
'
had
harder."
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understands
Edinburgh
he
'
had
inten-
no
The
is
this review
showed.
me
and
the
I had
Hooker.
whoever
fellow,as
Chambers.
Robert
last
as
the
me.
of the
reviewer,
jolly good
and
the
writes
well
last
ally,
capit-
his subject.
slapped [the
reviewer]a littlebit
312
tion
write
to
much
beneficent
and
feedingwithin
the
should
play with
in the
belief
other
I cannot
hand,
that
inclined
with
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look
to
the
we
satisfies
I feel most
the
speculateon
believe
views
a
the
for
profound
what
whether
man,
out
laws, and
have
may
not
that
all these
an
been
laws
consequence.
become
as
Most
indeed
deeply do
man
The
one
of
bad
or
natural
born
by
no
reason
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of
action
why
even
have
the
foresaw
Yours
every
the
Review
follow
'
my
may
complex
animal,
other
generous
future
laws, and
father's criticisms
on
and
I
this letter.
kindness
sincerelyand
event
bewildered
more
and
interest.
cordially,
Charles
[Here
my
sively
exces-
(who
other
by
probably shown
I feel your
that
expresslydesigned by
I think
more
I have
been
and
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to
or
aboriginally
produced by
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man,
well
lightningkills
child
laws.
too
as
you
owing
one,
all
at
might
each
Let
out
subjectis
dog
atheistical.
necessarily
Creator, who
But
intellect.
with
good
see
omniscient
am
working
notion
CertainlyI
action
can
this
agree
idiot)is
an
to
force.
the
to
that
Not
of Newton.
can.
complex
turn
mind
all
at
derful
won-
and
man,
brute
bad, left
or
deeply
human
he
not
are
good
call chance.
may
me.
of
result
the
of
nature
this
view
to
the
On
at
details,whether
what
contented
be
cat
necessity
no
see
expresslydesigned.
especiallythe
everythingis
of their
intention
that
or
Caterpillars,
of
was
anyhow
universe, and
conclude
eye
to me
seems
persuademyself that
have
would
designedly
believingthis,I
Not
the
There
the express
livingbodies
that
of
do, evidence
to
us.
God
with
mice.
wish
as
see
I cannot
omnipotent
the Ichneumonidae
I cannot
that
own
all sides of
on
in the world.
misery
created
I should
as
beneficence
design and
too
do, and
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
But
atheistically.
others
plainlyas
'ORIGIN
THE
the
Darwin.
'
Edinburgh
i860.]
"What
of South
inhabitants
I had
that
suppose
said
have
He
and
He
He
creation, and
makes
:
this
me
I ask
"
as
"
"
an
me
word
about
:
such
the whole
dorsal
that
argument
believe
would
p. 501.
"
vertebrae
is about
in
p. 522.
"
pretension
my
barriers
stop any
which
progress
over
and
to
that
we
are
imperfection of
again [say]how
over
"
say
p.
remark
glad to
HOOKER,
see
the
you
about
as
Journal'],
Soc.
called
the
if it
to
on
accept
geological record,
grave
the
difficulty
530."]
to
J. D. Hooker.
Down,
DEAR
to
p. 530.
"
C. Darwin
very
; this is simply
vary
rushing through
my
an
the
imperfectionoffers
My
is
this,surely,
unjust accusation
about
subject
disingenuous
I
creationists
all who
clamouring against
to
say
theory,from
when
in
p. 525.
"
applied to
the
whether
and
believing,
so
How
who
those
to
have
How
my
in
believe
remark
Cuvier
in science
ness
blind-
species,but believe
true
atoms
illiberal sentence
an
stopped
them
seems
candour, and
to
I say,
what
of my
I nowhere
What
"
p. 501.
"
speaks
He
speciesas
that elemental
I describe
difference
false
of
496.
p.
"
who
those
to
exclusivelyapply the
slightlyalters
that
on
p. 500.
"
reallybelieve
says
multitudes
the remainder
touched
I said
"
up
would
one
any
volume
what
preconceived opinions
creation,whereas
give
; and
Rudimentary Organs
falselyapplieswhat
of
understand
not
America
Sl5
logies,
Classification,
GeologicalSuccession, Homo-
on
Embryology,
He
did
throughout my
not
GeographicalDistribution.
I
he
quibbleto pretend
by
meant
REVIEW.'
'EDINBURGH
THE
"
reason
I return
why
Harvey's letter,I
he
has
not
read
have
your
been
Essay.
'ORIGIN
THE
3H
I feared
it
{verymuch
little way
I
not
was
and
the
on
of
subject;
and
The
battle
rages
he
was
in
therefore
which
"
he
with
did
slow, almost
slow
as
gettingwearied
useful.
being
the
as
the storm
at
that
Have
C.
to
before
"
should
'
the
Dublin
Botanical
Zoologicaland
i860,
17,
printed. My
tion,'
Associa-
privately
presentation
is inscribed, With
the writer's
repentance,Oct. i860."
t William
Hopkins died
1866,
in his seventy-thirdyear." He
began life with a farm in Suffolk,
but
ultimatelyentered, comparatively
Cambridge
in
; he
life,at
took
it
seem
to
to
stunner."
have
the
at
been
meetings.
deluded.
As
it will be
excessively
for the
species.
...
in the
am
hardlyany
and
Peterhouse,
his degree in
and
He
He
will be
afterwards
known
chiefly
was
"
coach," and
successful
in
an
University.
as
was
matical
mathe-
eminently
manufacture
the
the
dead
became
of the
Bedell
Esquire
'Fraser'?
new
heavy.
1827,
of
Senior
Mr.
in
"
late
be
\ hours
Lyell.
and
father's
"
copy
think,find
squib," read
University
serio-comic
Feb.
would
Gray
Hopkins f
seen
you
public will,I
*
of
Down,
.
opinion
weary
of
change
of
take
of hostile reviews
C. Darwin
so
delightsme
States.
others
and
ceeding
pro-
Gray's letters.
United
would
turning
was
were
A.
send
there
Agassiz
it
It
you
his
progress
that
not
opinion,I clearlysee
of
progress
the
goes
writing to
at
of him.
I feared
at
of
I think
that
fondly hoped
much
Agassiz pitiesme
see
piqued
not
was
watching
Species;
discussions
many
us.
to
opportunity
fightingsplendidly,and
is
supposed)with
furiouslyin the
preparinga speech,which
deliver,and
He
he
deserved,or worthy
the
says
not
ridicule,*
interested
change
than
[i860.
that
glad
am
natural
that
into
are
you
for
show
book
my
which
that
further
sorry
Harvey, just to
me
bigotry,and
was
SPECIES.'
OF
p.
for
the
Wranglers. Nevertheless
Stephen says ('Life of Fawcett,'
was
26) that he
conspicuous
inculcating a liberal view of
"
"
studies
"
of the
to
place.
stimulate
He
deavoured
en-
phical
philoso-
instead
sciences,
of
simply rousing
i860.]
against me
would
I
as
prophesied ;
you
*
personally.
me
far strikes
so
me
these
do
you
of my
book.
had
ardour
attacks
from
'
North
is to be
will tell
men
The
contact.
he
letter which
of his blindness
theories
the
had
in
came
truth
sure
the
he wrote
illustrates this.
Calcutta,who
and
and
Darwin
shall
is
claim
such
ences
differ-
which
would
refuse
we
be
to
are
of
one
one
any
it with
exercise
to
Mr.
the
last to
the occasion
on
of
demands,
Mr.
hope
highly approves
opinionwith
which
fightto
to
them, and
full right to express
will be
back.
founded
of
the
over
there
heavily;
Blyth,%
subjects
whom
Fawcett
Henry
of
published.
determined
to
journals. He
for good
influence
with
science
\ which
British,'
will go
am
has
gical
geolo-
on
the scientific
to
the
poor
competition." He
many
papers
mathematical
and
to
observation.
probably some
note
for
contributed
younger
making
I have
strong
generouslycivil
proof, natural
the
no
disheartened, I
grow
last.
an
reiterated
not
of
Cambridge
at
converts, and
more
no
is
clever.
as
Lecture
Phillips's
All
be
begun reading
I have
....
he
for without
would
there
convinced
but
his standard
On
progress,
never
am
1Tf
3l"
ATTACKS.
pared
pre-
candour
of
courtesy." Speaking
this
"
"
and
enabled
and
'
to
"
take
resolute
reckon
ful
cheer-
more
tone."
i860.
Magazine,'June
My father,no doubt, refers to the
following passage,
p. 752, where
the
Reviewer
expresses
in
participation
which
the author
both
and
as
remarks
second
be found
man
the
more
high respect in
is universally
held,
and
because
will
part of this
to
differ
naturalist
Essay
in
we
widely from
case
"
number
of
t May
% Edward
'
Fraser's
1873.
His
history made
he
indomitable
druggist'sbusiness
started
into serious
1810, died
Blyth,born
natural
the
Magazine.'
i860.
the
him
strong
myself write
more
shall
of his conclusions
regards many
which
the reasonings on
he
and
as
I could
me.
as
in the
follow
most
full
the
so,
which
"
his
alone,
against
make
can
difficulties
these
by taking
one,
Fraser's
difficulties. Any
great
as
in
and
life,
love
him
neglect
with
he
of
soon
which
got
316
'ORIGIN
THE
much
SPECIES.'
OF
grant any
will
be
thrown
respects
I much
so
money
Blyth
away.
quite revolutionized
all your
that
says
that
good judge)
very
Canning will
Lord
fear
[i860.
(and
he
ideas
on
his
not
great pains
is
in
many
Species are
....
C. Darwin
J. D. Hookei'.
to
HOOKER,
DEAR
I have
as
you,
But
on.
inclined
; for
Have
are,
you
'
British
and
of
discussingcells
which
builds
almost
bees.
What
immeasurably
article
to
knew
all
superiorto
unless
me
'
in
...
misapprehension
anything
as
Melipona,
between
that
wretched
unfair
so
of
case
done
us
so
people,the
exactly intermediate
has
write
we
It outdoes
me
on
Edinburgh
never
as
to
combs
humble
and
'
matters
seeing many
write
to
me
write
to
and
us.
's abusive
seen
North
'
as
such
not
you
misrepresentation.I
and
in
busy
pleasure to
talk about
different between
you
the
even
to
one
seriouslybeg
is very
case
no
It is
"
he
hive
feels
so
naturalists,and
to
all
convinced
portinghimself
writer
he
that
me
for
Field
on
of the
Asiatic
Soc.
few years
Natural
ultimatelywent
Curator
I must
out
to
as
of
stored
wonderful
ledge
as
studied,and
carefully
memory
and
birds
knowledge,
with regard to
especially
the
of India
asked.
R.
were
of
freelygave
father
chief
wealth
he
those
the
Bengal, where
life
was
working
in his remarkable
explainer. Neither
History,
publications
as
monthly reports made
part
his duty to the Society. He had
spent.
the
bad
of which
very
India
of the
Museum
of
be
"
malia
mam-
know-
of
who
after
entries
index
His
of
giveevidence
'
to
much
show
how
from
him.
and
perous
his
His
unhappy
difficulties and
money
the death
years
of
of his
wife
marriage.
long
in
name
help
life was
letters to my
having been
the
Animals
to
list
the
Plants/
and
received
was
an
unprosone, full of
darkened
by
after
few
86a]
ATTACKS.
reallyunderstand
inclined
I have
The
Climate, "c.
variation
than
does
I have
that
been
begin
was
book
your
Watson, "c,
but
time.
active
"an
is
the
"
efficient
myself wholly
I cannot
general sort
your
understand
of
successful
more
meaning.
your
in the wrong,
and
that
Huxley, Carpenter,Asa
all fools
are
making people
and
you
(I mean
God
then
that
say
implies something,i.e.
will be
fool,but
Lyell, and
nothing
selection
you
think
to
utter
an
in
you
progress
to
do
materially." Indeed,
Selection
the
term
very
plants),I hope
on
I should
I
of
who
entirelyagree,
causes)is
most
Natural
I
when
you
difference,to be selected.
or
How
that
am
all unknown
mistress
exclusion
the
to
than
Those
understand.
to
selection.
further
go
hinted
never
hopeless.
be made
about
language
Selection.
Natural
entirelyagree,
influencingits
handmaid,
as
cannot
from
{i.e.
variability
climate
book
attempt
seems,
almost
would
indeed
by
mean
think,we
forcible
too
use
cause
the way,
By
the
up
understand, it
not
give
to
what
317
Gray, and
will
show,
and
Farewell.
.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Down, June 6th [i860].
It consoles
me
that
at
sneers
...
clearlyshows, mathematician
understand
Malthus
the
plainest case
I
that
several
arguments,
mingle
; and
of
as
have
my
that
should
definite
analogies
making
the
may
read
the
reviewers
varieties
bring
I
...
is, to
up
am
majorityunderstand
be
'
he
may
the
reasoning. By
common
example
years
though
'
; how
what
long
dogs
old
curious
advance
and
couraging
dis-
misrepresentedand
understood
misit is
such
wild
do
cats
not
exploded doctrine
beginning
my
cannot
what
during
should
the
for that
be, he
way
show
Future
of
Malthus,
to
notions.
despair
Even
of
of
ever
Hopkins
3i3
does
the
shown
natural
Several
make
think, would
of
think
better ;
bad
was
Natural
"
; but
truism, and
under
would
"
Preservation
of view.
point
one
I think
spreads out,
variation
on
I want
of
that
can
the
I shall
animals
show
to
make
to
explanationsfinally
man's
bring
not
I have
it now,
I
nor
can
not
imply
would
seem
nature's
selection
only hope by
reiterated
clearer.
matter
been
If my
volume
one
plants
not
I suppose
would
and
publish
and
letters have
confounded,
worse
will
you
change
preservation of particularvarieties,and
I must
me.
that
to
much
so
understood.
am
term
confusion
to
several
and
little I
been
have
Heaven
to
reviews
"
selection
[i860.
personally alludes
clearlyhow
too
me
way,
explainer. I hope
better.
succeed
"
bad
very
he
way
SPECIES.'
OF
the
thoroughly. By
not
pleased by
be
'ORIGIN
THE
under
MS.
exclusively
domestication.
rash
quite so
as
many
suppose.
Though
time.
some
of
weary
reviews, I should
I suppose
...
; but
Bowen's
the
same
the
assumption that
as
structures.
I have
possibleto
know
sometimes
their
stated
to
seems
graduate
cannot
in
volume
my
of tusks in
attack
one
British
varietyof
a
Indian
different
for your
elephants. Thanks
Murray.
(N.B. Harvey
argument
of tall
men
feeds
from
letter of the
gives
marrying short
an
steps, and
the
elephants,which
of Dublin
on
fullyprofitby
to
manner
hardly
instinct,
small
very
leads
other
The
Christian
late
J.
A.
Examiner
Lowell
'
in the
(Boston,
U.
the
direction
it to
kinds
of
2nd, chieflyabout
me,
women,
in
as
the
letter,
one
of
great
weight ! t)
*
on
structure,
or
insect
as
might change first,
structure
it is
When
tiger in
the
that
rest
finelyas
as
instinct
instinct is
wholly to
me
Lowell's
see
about
difficulty
structure.
food.
new
it
instincts
first by insensible
change
exotic
Lowell's
like to
S.),May, i860.
t See footnote,
ante,p.
261.
i860.]
schaaffhausen.
I do
the
they
more
and
alluding to slightdifferences
being
very
diversities,
yet keep
Origin
the
'
the
New
'
in
Worlds.
over
calls considerable
productions
Farewell,shall
shall go
this in
to
of the
be at Oxford
you
all
considerable
just alluded
I have
as
fact that
of the
the world
the
comparing
fallacy,
physicalconditions
range
what
constant.
quitewell,perhaps I
gets
ones,
though exposed to
and
area,
local
of
aid."
incessant
one
oblivion
important ; namely,
very
physical conditions,
others
many
that
"
in to your
comes
when
species,except
by saying,
mean
you
underrate
Geology
as
Murray
in
see
that you
prove
for you,
the better
...
what
quiteunderstand
not
319
Old
and
If
H.
there.
Yours
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
C.
Lyell.
[June 14th, i860].
Down
Lowell's
.
he
is not
think
of
German
it to
individual
I have
like to
I have
keep
I dare
I do.
say
There
is
Year
notice
of
Round,' but
hash
of
my
have
in the
me
which, I
change
for
copy
admits
myself, and
sentence
on
number
of
consulting; chieflya
words.
own
direct effect
J. A.
Lowell
yet
as
Your
last
note
was
at
'
All
wellvery
me.
that
I believe
plants than
physical conditions
on
animals.
return
rather
statements
only one
under
I read
arrives,but will
penultimate
worth
not
expresslystated
more
of
selection.
and consolatoryto
interesting
I have
see
importance
Schaaffhausen, as
own
He
of
agency
ordered
till my
yours
the
and
differences,
finished
not
approachingnatural
done
great
instantlyif wanted.
you
rashly,as
the
quite overlooks
is the
badly.
so
should
He
mere
show,
can
domestication.
all
is pleasantly
written,but it is clear that
naturalist.
accumulation
the
review
in the 'Christian
Examiner,'May
iS6o.
But
the
'ORIGIN
THE
320
more
study,the
regulates,in
As
for
of nature,
bricks,or
or
only indispensablebut
same
as
in
manner
the
is selection
so
building,
Both
for two
of them
Section
to
all
Association
'
is
Yet
in the
important
person,
in i860
On
papers.
a
of the
Darwin's
Oxford
Origin of Species/
made
causes
Mr.
to
indispensable
character,so
at
the
over
of Oxford
the final
On
reference
particular
with
its
originated in unimportant
"
tion
selec-
organic bodies
pitched battles
the
are
influential.
is the
with
of the British
[The meeting
is famous
architect
natural
differences.
trifling
influence
not
variability
[i860..
that
most
timber,
building,and
think
led to
am
state
squared stone,
materials
more
SPECIES.'
OF
day,
Thurs-
communication,
sexualityof plants,
work
the
on
'
Origin
of
the
on
ground
"that
unduly
interfere with
would
before
which
discussion
subject was
the
(I quote
such
the
from
this
approach
"
his
publiccould
that
to
with the
the
of
of Mr.
the
brains
to
spiritof
there
carried
drop.
Sir
by
theory." He
the
lowest
very
"direct
than
man,
Mr.
and
R.
Owen
"wished
regard
gorilla presented
of
ever,
How-
to
expressed
philosopher,"
facts
with
public
on."
it did
Huxley
to
the
the probabilities
on
to
differences,
more
and
which
went
"
Quadrumana."
a
the
were
Darwin's
brain
of
assertions
these
gave
be
conclusion
some
of the
with
the
that
conviction
the brain
compared
as
should
ment
senti-
the
not
Athenseiun,July 7, i860),who
of the truth
say
in which
intellect,
was
allowed
not
subject in
come
general audience,
when
most
pared
com-
matical
proble-
replied, and
tion,"
unqualified contradic-
there
*
'
T. H.
was
Man's
peace, but
Place
in
Huxley, 1863,p.
on
Saturday 30th,the
Nature,'by
114.
f See
1861.
the
battle
'
Nat.
arose
Hist.
with
Review/
i860.]
BRITISH
redoubled
the
on
'
fury
excitement
it had
which
proved
the
suffocation
been
have
had
been
of
President
the
in limine
bringforward
address
fewer
the
four
him, because
hour
Bishop
with
evident
'
crammed
hand
his
up
to
fact,he
; in
in such
blame
the
had
to
used
well-turned
President
ridiculed
dulcet
be
allowed
to
for
necessary,
spoke
burked
no
by
unfairness.
and
subject that
not
to
Darwin
he
It
had
be
found
was
been
nothing at
first
in his
badly,and Huxley
tones, so persuasivea
periods,that
to
declamation.
vague
argument
no
nounced
wisely an-
valid arguments
that he knew
and
throat,
it
Henslow, the
their utterances
of the
Had
admitted, it
chair,and
proved
time, and
lists.
the rush to
other,would
that
the
1000.
Professor
not
spirit,
emptiness
'
and
caution
up
Quarterly article. He
savagely,but all in such
'
the
or
handling
the
had
who
journed
ad-
crammed
entered
to
held,
be
was
accommodated
indulgencein
was
inimitable
from
have
Bishop.
combatants
of their
700
scene.
meeting
none
side
one
meeting
than
"The
on
from
D, occupied the
that
the
champions
at
the
should
which
Museum,
impossibleto
Section
with
Lecture-room, in
the discussion
the
hear
of the
before
The
audience,and
estimated
were
term-time, or
wrould
for the
long
numbers
The
tremendous.
Library
York,
considered
Europe
eye-witnessof
an
arranged that
small
New
Darwin.'
is from
was
been
far too
to
to
of Mr.
of
Draper
of
development
the views
to
321
Dr.
by
paper
followingaccount
The
"
Intellectual
reference
The
over
ASSOCIATION.
I who
had
manner,
been
inclined
for
passage
in which
he turned
round
VOL.
II.
and
quote
was
addressed
from
related
Huxley
Lyell. The
by his grand'
father's
the
scientific
the
of his
followingreport
late
the
by
now
fellow-student,
and
whom
an
I should
equivocalf
an
no
in
versatile
in his
success
there
be
intellect,
who,
by
he
has
from
real
no
man,
with
ance,
acquainttract
dis-
rhetoric,and
the
skilled
activity,
plunges
aimless
an
ancestor
content
not
of
sphere
of
ashamed
it would
recalling,
eloquent digressions,and
by
be
to
asserted,
"
an
of his hearers
attention
Dawkins.
were
which
the
undergraduate, to
reason
own
them
current
letter addressed
an
grandfather. If
obscure
only to
the
and
then
Boyd
has
man
questions with
scientific
into
quence,
elo-
and
that
self-restraint,
is from
Green,
feel shame
of restless
man
for his
ape
conclusion
Professor
repeat, that
having
with
force
Richard
John
with
opponent
crushingrejoinder."
of Mr.
versions
Many
an
allusion
personal
his
dignity to
gave
of his
argument
to
to
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
grandmother'sside
or
and
'ORIGIN
THE
322
real
issue
point at
appeals
religious
to
%
prejudice."
The
"
letter above
The
had
to
excitement
be
carried
his
having
name
give his
was
out, and
view
it
handed
height ;
was
Some
been
of the
its
at
now
resumed.
was
continues
quoted
called
grasped
the
theory from
principlesof
absolutelyignorant of
Bishop
"
made
There
was
crowded
'
vol.
Lyell's Letters,'
Professor
has
scene,
Victor
distinct
does
equivocal.
not
He
Lyeli'sversion
is
Cams,
remember
the
the
'
millan's
of the
the word
Mr.
"The
and
him
to
This
side.
he
showing,had
of botanical
conversazione
who
invited
own
broke
and
cussion
the dis-
Hooker,
and
Origin,'
meeting
ii. p. 335.
recollection
for
the Botanical
the elements
reply,and
no
before
lady fainted
time
some
voices
that
he
science.
was
The
up.
in the
evening at
Favvcett
the
('Mac-
wrote
Magazine,' i860)
deserved
was
so justly
:
retort
and
so
inimitable
that
no
one
ever
in its
manner
,
believes,too, that
of the
incorrect.
slightly
ape
sentence
made."
who
was
present
can
it
86a]
BRITISH
of the
rooms
'
hospitable and
I
and
Origin,'
which
in
way
their
offered
they
of
black
white
and
coats
question,and
the
congratulations
to
of the
fair and
the
with
judiced
unpreof
cravats
which
with
frankness
the
in
winners
the
Dr.
Botany,
battle
the
topic was
struck
the
the
discussed
Oxford
sole
much
was
323
genial Professor
almost
the
where
Daubeny,
ASSOCIATION.
combat."]
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Sudbrook
My
have
for
Hooker,
dear
been
what
your
letter came,
useless
affection
and
I
burthen
brought
this is
that
.
you
will
How
with
more
over
the
me
Talk
compared
with
bottom
the
liked
others,when
eyes.
my
of
kindness
of
fame,
affection ;
your
letter,
your
heart.
wandered
have
to
thinking
; your
have
was
in
and
could
be
latelyso
think
that
will
ten
about
been
am
; but
glad
overwhelmed,
with
was
my
and
idea
no
our
cause
not
in
views,that
I hear
am
in
in
[health]
the
that you
I
sure
subject
will, in the
Oxford,
had
you
wholly
that
now
one
any
fight publicly(which
that
triumphing
how
me
was
still
success
your
hostile
I
how
; and
you
I had
perhaps
years
at
many
rightwhen
was
in
forgotten
do.
orators
read
that
Huxley
heard
astonished
am
public like
beginning to
and
have
to
enough
to
something unintelligible
I have
power.
wrong,
would
It is
well
been
liked
have
Bishop.
argue
this
have
all
and
cheered
from
if I had
you,
should
audacity.
run,
and
enough,
Oxford
can
headache
dirt
are
with
should
bad
into
with
agree
continuous
myself
so
tears
doctrine
letter.
low
to
was
your
was
it has
and
just received
almost
poorly,with
very
hours,
forty-eight
and
I have
"
never
long-
for I should
'ORIGIN
THE
324
C. Darwin
SPECIES.'
OF
to T. H
Huxley.
Sudbrook
I had
letter
....
from
which
have
fought nobly
and
that
that
my
hate
to
into
for
should
stirred
up
honour
your
mud,
pluck
Bishop
"
From
all that
did
Oxford
the
afraid of
not
hated
the
If
But
not.)
some
had
; I would
have
to Mr.
father wrote
from
the
that
world
sentence
if I
had
not
would.
tried
as
to
Huxley
few
of
friend
that
died
It is of
a
cause
led them
quarters, it
several
showing
good
certainlysoon
assembly.
an
been
to make
soon
as
you
think
I often
mud, and
remember,
else
one
I hear
much
me
particulars),
no
capitally.
(How
me.
in such
so
up
trouble.
I know
the
the
answer
have
O.
heard
battles
tells
He
beyond others)have
stirred
odious
I have
B. of
far
you
having
English,
good
(and
much
myself, I
the
answered
friends
me,
(but
awful
of the
Oxford.
species at
late
by Hooker
written
account
some
Owen
with
you
so
about
raged
Park, Richmond,
July 3rd (i860).
Oxford,
Sunday night,giving me
on
[i860.
that
seems
portance
im-
enormous
first-rate
men
are
expressingtheir opinion."]
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
[Julyi860.]
I have
"
"
"
clever ; it
just read
the
picks out
with
"
Essays Contributed
to the
'
Ouar-
'
Quarterly.'
most
It
is
monly
uncom-
conjectural
86a]
REVIEW.'
'QUARTERLY
well
brings forward
parts, and
You
Grandfather.
my
The
; and
Huxley
concluding
sticks to
if he
By Jove,
will
pages
make
but
well-quizzed,
Your
and
will
be
night.
Good-
affectionate
sorrowful,and
not
C. D.
friend.
see
can
Review, for
"
there
has
been
page
has
been
is conceived
which
forward
in
and
reprinted.
in the
that not
but
of his scientific life,
the
vigour and
motion
in
conscious
of
its
and
vacuum,
denials
descend
or
capable of containing
which
the
reviewer
Charles
Lyell :
should
have
broad
"That
"
of
is
that
he
that
he
one
of
jungle of fanciful
small
no
is mistaken
may
his
converts.
"
tion
assump-
upon
Yet
no
and
more
man
been
in
logical
Darwin
If you
of
C.
Lyellas
By
We
know,
more
distinct
the denial
of the
was
have
do
Quarterly,'
fun
trust
have
been
curious
and
the
same
showed
noyed
an-
with
ridicule.
the
seen
last
get it ; the
such
made
my
Bishop
capital
grandfather.
I
coincidence, when
I
was
letter,
staying
house
with
it to him.
very glad
way, he is such
am
"
writingon some
put a postscript
not
and
me
received
in the
has
vigour,a
and
of argument
old
writes
by an
Bishop's accustomed
believing
geologicalbrother.
has
would
Oxford
men
We
in
Sir
count
neighbour,
of
evil.
father's
Innes, my
and
mixture
'
works
nature's
Most
Mr.
this
from
Brodie
the
Sir
to
call its
to
venture
article written
Darwin
Mr.
wandered
highway
into the
refers
flimsy
completely
in spiteof all
"
friend
"
an
this
'
Mr.
present universe."
The
must
we
order
the
with
filled
space
what
was
as
Bishop
twin
specificgravity
it, forming an
its
solid
immense
put down
existence,
own
ascend
to
as
it became
as
determine
would
as
soon
begin
according
the
as
area,
would
of
area
an
to
"
lateral
in its full
Lyell,in
appeal
with
his
scribingthat
direction, dehelp
infinite extent.
speculationmay be as
goes
infancy
maturity." The
to
on
Sir
speciesthan
of
and
Lyell,
C.
rightline,ad infini-
tampering
transmutation
the
with
queer
out
cut
moved
have
to
some
This
shoes.
in his
real hero.
say,
's hand.
there,
Lyell shake
he
us,
to
here
plainlysee,
can
quizzes
'Anti-Jacobin' versus
the
alluded
not
are
difficulties. It
all the
me
325
he
takes
the
Bishop,
He
said,
'
"
it in that
capitalfellow.'
326
'ORIGIN
THE
[Writing on
July
OF
to Dr.
22
[i860.
SPECIES.
Asa
Gray
father thus
my
refers
Lyell'sposition:
to
"
"Considering his
has
been
heroic
to Asa
C. Darwin
positionin
and
views
this
on
subject."]
Gray.
[i860].
Sussex]July 22nd
[Hartfield,
My
Gray,
DEAR
then
cure
and
now
writing,I have
American
Hooker
any
one
the
to
and
know
article
these
in
in
much
could
you
facts
the
Athenaeum
copy
the
the
to
of
illustration
Journal. Every
know
in
more
first discussion
with
fear
he
made
been
April
criticised
10,
meeting by
Mr.
mistake
your
seems
It makes
shot.
time)
not
that
wild
I have
he
would
will not,
as
I shall be
soon
sent
Reviews.
My
in
being
my
republish
he
reviewed
curious
I know
as
The
fruits.
conclusion
(and
that
it
is that
botanist,you
ought
lawyer.
i860.
in detail
positionstaken
of
review
your
have
have
to
than
...
contains
request that
; I much
in
envy
single word
largest circulation,and
editor
bring
my
more
American
the
I declare
argument
have
you
detail,and
variabilityof
the
that
than
and
almost
32-pound
my
reasoning.
more
are
and
almost
tells like
of
myself;
discussions,I think,
am
in Proc.
subject.
I do
as
the
you
the
expressing
you
and
(but I
has
me,
water-
whence
powers
astonishment
write
on
to
of
my
Silliman's
wish
note
at
discussion
resist
clear
well
as
home
girlto
the
most
master
lines
new
and
weighed carefully,
me
sick
my
book
excites
which
I admire
of your
my
from
I cannot
thorough
question
manner
move
now
latelysaid
else the
you
to
absence
to
only latelyread
admiration
As
that
having
Acad.,*
sincere
Owing
"
ciety,
so-
"
Dr.
Gray
several
of the
the
preceding
[J.A.] Lowell,Prof.
at
Bowen
and
Prof.
reprintedin the
i860,
Agassiz."
It
was
Athenceum, Aug.
4,
i860.]
Henslow*
....
Hooker
that
making
has
is
327
shaken.
are
Hochstetter
in
progress
not
of
has
is
Hopkins
which
much
so
led him
never
Bronn
are
the
good
the end
at
of his
difficult
it is such
in
review
opposed
reflect much
to
and
Hopkins's
has
from
views
my
Germany,
it.
read
yet
I hear
that
criticism,but
best
the
thought
that
of
chapter
I have
I believe
study
from
hears
that
'
REVIEW.
discussingthe question.
translation
Fraser
Daubeny
considerable
are
German
and
he
very
workers
-"5
"
HOPKINS
his
such
on
course
subjects
homologies, "c,
geographical distribution,classification,
as
that he
so
does
feel it
not
relief to
have
kind
some
of
explanation.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
[Sussex],July 30th [i860].
Hartfield
I had
Assoc,
has
been
No
Gray,
'
Athenseum,
our
'
has
Quarterly
been
out
It makes
Professor
Henslow
was
in the December
1
Macmillan's
an
Magazine'
of
the
February
a
year,
This
extract
from
him
the
by
that
sequence
con-
published,in
number
of the following
letter
defininghis position.
did
he
a
by
of
means
letter addressed
Rev.
L.
wrote,
you
views.
"
had
was
become
and
to
Mr.
not
a
better
He
is
will
print it.
say
his
malice,
no
things which
many
to
The
(Darwin's)theory,
groups,
at
may
had
an
Jenyns (Blomenearly," as he
field)which
very
expressed his
says,
aware
In
this he
"
Blomefield
being
as
of Evolution.
adherent
of
number
Atlantic
case
It contains
me
There
printed discussions
he
says
convert
tioned
men-
side of the
his
time.
...
well.
very
the whole
of
editor
the Brit.
about
fightingnobly.
one
some
is wonderful.
which
on
the other
been
sent
the
and
got
understands
has
I have
capitalreasoner.
to
he
and
have
on
I think
one
pleasantletters
to
seems
discussion
much
as
Asa
than
side
our
this.
on
as
and
lots of
with
the
length of
of the smaller
many
of animals
and plants,
period have
remote
some
I do not
parentage.
common
some
to
go
say that
theory cannot
be
the whole
true"
but
of his
that it
far from
is very
I
proved ; and
doubt
its ever
being possible to
prove
it."
328
I do
not
the true
has
At
say.
Lamarck,
and
makes
faith.
head
as
worth
the
solemn
the
London
'
Review,'by
It is very
know
who
your
return
is the
'
has
Origin
is eager
others
about
going
are
botanical
book
work
Our
kindest
hope
nothing
the
to
and
first-rate
little
I expect
your
vengeance,
long delayed.
very
This
is
not
say.
affectionately,
Watkins.
to F.
of
very
C.
C. Darwin
on
be
Lyell.
better
Yours
hear
first-rate
hereafter
be
Lady
to
I have
it
will,with
it will not
remembrances
sending,but
make
shall
Man
to
he
many
answered.
has
geological
historyof
the
so
which
for
subject. Huxley
got
will
he
tour
your
bomb-shell.
worth
been
how
the
has
amusement.
as
hear
to
on
a
have
production.
really believe
to
translation
to
of
No.
much
like
History Review,'
he
review
third
curious
German
edit, and
other
favourable
should
and
attention
Natural
to
that
assistants,
anxious
'
little.
in the
of,is
I shall be very
any
firm in
keep
only
and
geologist,
Bronn's
drawn
The
think
can
ably done,
whether
against
some
author.
to
you
quake
you
uniformitarians.
I
[i860.
conclusions
appeal to
it will make
fancy
of the
SPECIES.'
OF
mentioning, which
wonder.
be
the end
ingeniouslyprimed
you
'ORIGIN
THE
Darwin.
Leading
think
face
times
of old
than
rises before
now
Your
"
if I
book
quizzed by
saw
has
the
me,
note
vividlyas
My
WATKINS,
DEAR
most
with
gave
the
real
me
pleasure.
health, I oftener
probably do
; and
your
you.
well
been
abused, praised,and
of Oxford
Bishop
*
See
Vol.
; but
I. p. 168.
from
what
splendidly
I
see
of its
86a]
von
influence
that,in
the
main, I
question,I
your
all
animals
forms
from
old
With
right road.
arguments
and
analogy
descended
with
the
in
the
on
descended
that
Farewell, my
days
am
think
have
; and
all have
workers
reallygood
on
329
baer.
respect
to
are
from
four
weak
reasons
primordial
five
or
that
show
to
go
singleprototype.
some
friend.
I look
Cambridge
back
to
old
most
sincerely,
unalloyedpleasure.
Believe
me,
yours
Darwin.
Charles
T. H.
Huxley
C. Darwin.
to
My
Darwin,
DEAR
allyfor
Von
to
Bar
writes
to
thus
me
"
debris
journal allemand.
dans
un
une
journal anglaisdans
aussi
cas
m'interesse
je ne
beaucoup
imprimer quelque
pourriez me
vous
le
les idees
pour
chose
et
sur
faire
parvenir ce
memes
idees
des
que
terrible
nom
En
recension.
journalici.
de
sur
Darwin,
M.
je
Comme
les-
sur
je ferai peutlesquelles
infiniment
m'obligeriez
vous
"
le
que
ecrit
avez
votre
trouve
pas trouver
peux
Vous
J'aioublie
lequelse
quellesj'aiparle publiquement
etre
great
cela,je trouve
outre
Darwin
tout
and
new
redactions.
des
encore
Et
"
l'ouvragede M.
du
announce
you
ecrivez
vous
I have
"
que
ecrit
avez
vous
sur
si
ces
idees.
les
"J'aienonce
M.
Darwin.*
ou
origined'especesque
la
dans
le
dernier
Alfuren,' que
M.
Darwin
The
chapitre
j'en parle
s'occupaitde
treatise to which
*
See
la transformation
sur
Von
c'est seulement
Vous
je m'appuie.
du
tres
cet
Mais
traite
'
des types
Ueber
decidement
sur
trouverez,
Papuas
und
savoir
que
sans
objet."
Bar
refers he gave
me
when
over
33o
'ORIGIN
THE
here,but
I have
letter reached
know
what
been
not
there
able
days
two
me
OF
[i860.
SPECIES.
hands
lay
to
is in it.
Ever
faithfully,
yours
T.
C. Darwin
T. H.
to
H.
and
news,
Baer
*
Huxley
dear
thank
down
weighs
Your
"
heartily
with
write
you
should
Von
to
think
send
us
in
and
send
for you
to
Wagner
has
me
the
Science
Origin.'
'
'
The
Silliman's
Arts'
from
'
vol.
iii. of
Nat.
copy
has
oppositethe
"
Unless
succeed
the
truth
As
he
to
i860.
of
the
father's
My
"
pencilled Truly
followingpassage :
"
and
his
showing that
the
lies
goes
sheets
Contributions
Darwin
in
He
Journal of
(commonly called
advanced
than
be
':
won't
'
thus
to
favouringthe
individuals
he
?*
abstract
auf
dangerous
Agassiz
will, nolens
something beyond
existence
over
'
R.
me.
Riicksicht
between
far
up
less trouble
very
half-way
to
and
Silliman
"
go
the
touch
to
it to
return
we
metaphysical
in the last
"
Journal'), July
'
pamphlet, f giving an
American
and
Printed
thinks
'
If
him
get it translated
Classification,' mit
on
that
side, of
Silliman
[the
Agassiz.
our
it would
apprehend
but
lengths,"
Origin
German
'
and
'
of
tell him
on
Von
me.
anything,beg
'
in
it in London
at
sent
the
on
it
Agassiz'sweak
seen
but
Agassiz's Essay
Darwins
it you,
look
and
you
theologicalattack
write
try and
Atheuseum
Have
I would
of
for I would
the
sake
[i860].
magnificent
of
arguments
does
approbation
if he
; and
Agassiz
weak
of
nod
copy,
published
sending
one
greatest value
for
vengeance
August
contained
note
you
Huxley.
Huxley.
Down,
My
this
When
ago.
it since
on
of
certain
that of other
viduals,
indi-
find that
they will soon
they are followinga shadow."
der
f Louis Agassiz'sPrinzipien
'
Classification,
"c,
auf
Darwins
mit
Ansichten.
Riicksicht
Separat-
Gottingischen
1860.
struggle gelehrtenAnzeigen,'
followers
Abdruck
aus
den
i860.]
AGASSIZ,
volens, have
to
WAGNER.
further.
go
He
he
says
is
going
review
to
for the
in
me
33
"
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Down,
I have
laughed
...
who
man
of the
public ;
obliged
effect
As
could
might
I have
send
it
be influenced
be
this post,
me.
of
it.
answering
know
to
strike
of
that
good
at
has
hear
all,denies
variations
Agassiz's
the
'
same
Asa
Journal
much.
says,
*
there
This
the
almost
.
is
converted
'
and
wished
thinking
Hooker
him
made
make
to
the
I will send
appeared, I
tells
to
that
side
Parsons
In
review
is all that
by
I
can
the
'
'
the
on
me
our
speculative
nothing.
a
; I should
page
the
has
perfection
published
Agricultural
Highland
of Law
in
correcting my
paper
As
remember.
soon
clever
this review
Entomologist, not
some
may
Silliman/
very
by
is
men.
Anti-Jacobin
Hooker
have
and
Gray
Professor
.
Silliman
notions, worth
'
reviews
what
Agassiz
been
the
two.
or
to
The
Bishop,
has
was
Quarterly Review,'
possible.
as
you
by great
it contained.
liked ; he
he
fired
cancelled
the
on
him, I
at
fears,what
and
the voice
had
you.
been
played
Geologicalevidence.
friend
of
day
spare
gigantic blunder
note
wish
you
mention
not
in
'
amuse
has
There
disagreeable to
as
AtJienseum
As
it may
guns
It is full of errors,
has
whatever
article
heavy
many
as
what
that
says
so
were
you
judgment by
I had
myself,that
to
of
part amused
like
in your
(sent by Murray)
by
thinking that
and
confess
to
Woodward
at
[i860].
nth
August
cease.
in Harvard
Hooker
worth
Huxley
and
University.
Huxley,
battle
Asa
and
and
Gray, I
give
not
in ; I
on
others.
many
By
I believe Hooker
is
letters.
of your
be
to
three
years
with
up
days
ago,
written
feel
elusion
where
very
doubtful.
; and
and
week
'
of the
ticular
ago,
Remarks
As
By
of the
dog, the
On
"
I found
the
on
my
several
final
the
it
argument
seemed
think
to
I do
probable con-
same
the
Bishop
makes
several
instances
this is very
evidence
to Asa
unfair,as
is and
must
in
be
Gray.
Mr.
parDarwin's
home
return
articles
work
causes
of plants with
sexuality
to
on.
; when
reading ; though
the way,
but
feet
two
dogs
at
you
the
to
three
or
slowly going
how
see
your
come
filled
on
then
About
Gray,
reference
some
was
two
am
August
Down,
and
about
work,
be worth
C. Darwin
DEAR
nice
chalk.
now
againstme, by accumulating
My
cessively
ex-
suddenly appeared
is still
can
done.
this
as
return
what
cases
your
in the
hole
discussion
will
you
I have
such
"
pipes
multipleorigin.
that
case
telling
very
shows
like,you
their
that
on
most
circularlysubsided
short
my
if you
sure
"
of earth
I recommenced
important,it might
not
the
loads
clearlythis
stands,about
hear
is
many,
everyone's astonishment,
it has
again
copied,and
this
to
waggon
morning
I have
to
; he
summer
me
circular
perfectly
field
How
This
curious
very
weak.
scientifically
this
written
Daubeny's
ago
many
more.
has
trimmers, and
mention
candid, but
nowhere
the
to
that whenever
all
on
forgot to
interested about
flat grass
I shall be
account
used
and
He
busy
great effect
stick
to
fullyconvinced
am
going
[i860.
determined
are
the way
liberal
pamphlet,* very
SPECIES.'
OF
see,
you
in
'ORIGIN
THE
332
"
sent
on
the
Brit. Assoc.
from
by
"
[i860].
Sussex
you.
The
about
first
'
Origin of Species."
Report,
i860,
i860.]
agassiz.
article,from
possess.
By
inserted
your
I therein
the
'Atlantic
the
way,
really seemed
They
species do
doubted
How
differences
and
find
for
varieties
it, and
salient
picking out
indeed
have
you
If you
extremely
Please
find
I could
such
too
allude
too
to
structure
the
under
There
complex,
believe
head
of
Monsters
*
Aug.
to
nothing which
occurrences.
much,
on
4, i860.
the
to
and
in its sudden
are
apt
to
be
'
skill in
him
for the
is written.
Essay f
of favourable
variation)
arising.
it would
of the
be
much
sterile,or
Silliman's
great
labour,
every
adaptation,in
seeds
of
probability
in almost
production.
hooked
beautifully
I could
them), and
the chance
beautiful
too
; it
poor
your
thank
me
me
by
natural
me
subject,for,after
seems
how
points. Agassiz's
his
sudden
satisfied
man
selected
nail into
objectionto this,indeed
no
not
possess
which
much
(i.e.
great and
monstrosities
spiritin
Again,
(even if
fair
that
to
several
vidual
indi-
tinct
countries,dis-
seems
driving a
I reflected
that
course,
and
assumes
resemble
liberal and
tell him
have, of
points
Professor
see
one
between
varieties
answer
whether
if
"
if any
nature.
article
alreadyanswered
doubt, is
no
name,
doubt
much
As
in two
should
detailed
"
wonder
domestic
whole
worth
hardly
me
The
writing
coolly he
no
in
own
species.
or
to
seems
do
his
found
variation
that
suppose
How
It is
in
"
distinction
varieties.
species,cannot
man
first.
at
logical quibble
they vary
can
forms, when
calls identical
to
when
condensation,
succeed
that
clearlydefined
some
unreasonable
than
to
has
Co., and
more
not
existence.
their temporary
is
and
in their
did
absurd
exist, how
not
there
who
admirable
me
AtJienseum*
the
even
glad
very
novelty.
better.
something
that
them
am
of
am
Agassiz, Bowen,
to
and
force,clearness
I
editor
them, I admired
read
Monthly,'
the
to
answer
333
I have
to
not
every
alluded
such
to
case
bility.
possi-
transmit
Journal/July i860.
'ORIGIN
THE
334
Look
peculiarities.
monstrous
SPECIES.'
at
the fineness
of
successive
sub-stagesof
; I could
give many
other
shells
the
such
doubt
It
view.
change
in structure.
quoted
as
cold
judge
shudder
holds, to
to
which
it gave
LYELL,
to
C.
September
the
than
to'me
new
make
few
who
many
danger
such
to
new
of
case
of
have
I will
to
occur
as
deal
surprised me
difficulties
remarks
Your
your
good
objectionsand
me.
believe
of
are
through them,
run
me.
The
case.
of the
case
Galapagos, from
Pacific
(viz.
Ocean
other
the
islands, that
Pterichthys
and
is it too
"
infer
Now
sayS:
from these facts that either of these
"
animals, if
crustacean,
to
was
so
fish,
that
was
fish that
become
so
facts
American
in any
had
Galapagos
speaking nearlya
Cephalaspis, may have
much
than
more
loc. cit. p. 5,
Parsons,
the
see
certain
South
and
me
not
surviving there
mammals
small
admission, about
of
did
doctrine,and
in Forbes's
in fact convinced
littoral species),
things
of
paucity
pleadingssuch
littoral sea-shells
on
Few
by
delightedme,
thought
published reviews.
and
stamp
It has
[i860].
in
entire
in the
different
and
Selection.
Natural
latelyon
have
1st
interested
much
morning.
that you
it demonstrates
because
Darwin.
Lyell.
been
this
28th, received
letter of the
more
I have
"
true
truly,
most
Down,
DEAR
me
fish ! *
C.
My
abrupt
R. Murchison
Sir
see
me
domestic
speculatingabout
Yours
C. Darwin
made
some
animals, and
one
true
to
me
of any
giving birth
crustacean
tion
great forma-
same
preserves
man
affinities of
hear
to
gradationin
extent, with
certain
It amused
of
the
of
considerations
doubt, where
productions no
[i860.
OF
other
been
never
of its
some
ova
nearly
it may
have
been
of
the ovum
a crustacean
crustacean
born
?
"
from
lyell's
i860.]
subservience,and
With
survive
do
the
like
former
continent)had
been
small
the
the
from
times
mammal.
From
form
in
homologies
had
imagine
now,
between
the
on
degree
bird
form
some
hand
one
and
bryologicalcharacter)
respect
besides
must
to
want
mammal
arrived
have
on
progenitor,having
and
not
We
an
would
the
like the
the
structure, and
prevent
Echidna
genitor.
pro-
than
any
mammalian.
is
We
Lepidosiren
mammals
the
and
same
em-
hand.
other
on
With
island,
any
for
of
embryo
or
peculiar
mammal
fish.
of
but
mammal,
of the birdlike
eternitysome
creature
new
and
necessary
habits
the
almost
retain
or
longer
retain
island
bird
certain
as
reptiliancharacters
bird
reptile,
already developed
to
sea
so
the
or
into
single
being developed
character
might give
inheritance
for
of time
it
at
fish, between
reptileson
not
the
converted
intermediate, as
(forthey
all
impossible to speculate.
combine
reptiles and
by
some
character)with
as
peculiar
very
subsidence
look
from
it is
animals
these
as
by
atolls.
as
I should
was,
atolls
tenanted
flooded
and
descended
its nature
lesser
must
birds
breached
like,probably,the Ornithorhynchus
known
(and
area,
I have
of
groups
existing reptilebeing
any
mammals
all
What
More
been
their existence
during
conceive
of
that during
probability
the
I cannot
that
extremely
atolls have
nearly all
outline
hardly
(for as
Book,
conditions,and
islands
Coral
mammals,
many
main
the
look
not
if the
would
mammals
long,
even
base
mere
was
Co.
and
atolls,I think
to
; it
very
in
said
mainland
of Hooker
terror
respect
the
with
united
continuously
335
criticisms.
ranking
as
true
mammal.
often
I have
with
your
Natural
or
precision,
Selection
anticipated. The
Canary
Islands
speculatedon
is
not
at
having
argument
new
all under
to
me.
done
the
what
point
might
of littoral Miocene
I
was
of
not
view
have
shells at
of
been
the
336
'ORIGIN
THE
the
Helena, and
its age
respect to bats
three
European
the
is,now
in New
anyhow,
confess
and
bat
the
""would
be
I know
of
that
fact
feeding
seals
first step
easy,""would
no
I searched
in
be
apt
to
to
island, as in the
The
With
"distant.
one
so
confined
at
the
as
its
The
to
of land
infer
Saurians, and
a
few central
I
affinity
of
offspring
in
marine.
Now
variation
in habits
this
vegetable
feeder
largely on
.lichens,and
its
(in
offspringto feed
the
very
itself
marine
species
would
on
an
Bermuda.
600
miles
pagos,
Gala-
habits
being
species being
progenitorfirst arrived
impossibleto
clear to any
in the
rather
it would
on
the
of
terrestrial
its
much
known
say,
species.
have
we
first
and
of
they frequently
bats, as
country it is
case
; but
seals,
change
any
Amblyrhynchus
terrestrial
the
with
wanderers
of Madeira
that
islets,
is not
believe
whale
of any
case
one
undergoing
to
case,
incipientvariation
hence
And
from
what
; from
Galapagos
find
probable,from
as
into
So
difficulty"!!
birds
the
to
respect
Polar Bear
the
from
may
with
rare
not
applieseven
to Bermuda
come
could
to
species
islands.
case
bound
Indian
an
to
ground, or
am
conversion
the least
any
shore.
any
remark
same
no
with individuals
cross
air.
speak
now
step has
the
on
wretched
which
offer
vain, and
of seal confined
the
in
in my
by
showing
the
on
feed
singlesuch fact,viz. of
one
killingfrogs. Observe,
show
they
taking to
fore
there-
and
peculiar,
bats,
especiallyas
more
is very
anywhere, except
I do know
I do
surprising;
or
Canary
of non-volant
group
Zealand
fossils there.
shown, namely, of
two
are
in the
I think
Madeira, and
rise to
There
(N.B.
flora.
the
of
peculiarity
the
Zealand
case,
probably been
of Cretacean
be
the
put
of bats
has
in
bats
you
genus
New
at
having given
Islands)not
with
agrees
With
it
the
of
amount
[i860.
SPECIES.*
OF
not
littoral
terrestrial
unusual
be
species a
circumstance),
algae and
then
on
sub-
lyell's
i860.]
marine
is
line of attack.
good
in the
that
no
habits
or
structure
long.
be
am
the
in any
chance
what
see
questionan
in
indefinitely
for it will
of
of the balance
it is often
subject
on
of land
occupants
think
you
in the
occur
dogs MS.,
my
for your
hearty thanks
With
to
organism
read
member
re-
particularcase
long pondering
judge.
to
to
me
After
evidence.
hard
to
be
of both
very
important
give
be
this may
and
water,
or
in
already established
other
over
337
can
ever
or
to
as
We
will
change
right direction,so
advantage
said what
have
algae. I
criticisms.
interesting
most
Farewell.
letter.
old master,
dear
My
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Down,
My
HOOKER,
DEAR
this
insane.
Bless
cut.
and, if you
get
to
"
dare
never
result could
no
say
the
worked
If you
flora and
minute
I have
long
he has
VOL.
more
than
; I have
get
little
extremely
under
slow
stones
coaches.
of them.
[They] have
lakes, do
often
attend
been
to
their
surprisedhow
to.
This
thoroughlymastered
II.
Brine
Natural
it has.
be
interestingtour
such
out
and
go
must
beetles
any
that
fogy
not
ceived
re-
of Britain.
letter from
to
old
do
most
are
be made
attended
sake
news
your
an
[1S60].
2nd
Lebanon, I suppose
collect
to
any
fauna
difficultiesopposed
done
it will be
Alpines
across
come
such
God's
Entomologists
the
; but
there
at
the top of
ought
interesting you
become
am
my
confess
must
astounded
am
spirit. For
at your
throat
your
morning.
amazed
am
"
September
the
Lyell,who
because
Selection,
is very
good, as
subject;
and
ingenious
starts
it has
it shows
shows
he
Z
not
that
is in
33S
'ORIGIN
THE
[i860.
earnest.
cockles
SPECIES.'
OF
of my
rejoicesthe
heart.
shall
How
miss
you,
....
friends.
it
best
my
kindest
and
of
bless you.
God
Yours
affectionately,
ever
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
Sept. 10 [i860].
Down,
will be weary
You
....
as
me
Your
former
mistake, I
what
tell you
poet, naturalist
monster
have
marked
too
are
before
seen
theologian!
and
just alightson
the
prism
and
singleclass
I
coming
a
very
me,
the
at
on
how
each
:
very
grandest of
[Dr.Gray
which
passages
good,
this is
but
Dr.
Gray
have
that
see
they
exaggeration. My
no
of the
colours
of
littleerror
of
weighs arguments
in
see
I suppose,
one,
embryology
of
has
is to
one
alluded
and
by
me
of
change
early age,
all facts
the resemblance
wrote
lawyer,
such
ever
to
far the
this.
being
in natural
of
'
Atlantic
not
one,
Variation
inherited
it
or
history,
not
at
not
to
seems
rather
in
'
for
embryos.
strongest
forms, and
zoology,viz.
gross
America.
reviewers
a
of
cross
there
happy comparison
of facts in favour
think, of my
the
artificial groups.
our
different balance
Was
extra
me
the
to
and
specify,
to
numerous
eye
through
appearing
as
looked
just
I made
I said
hybrid, a complex
are,
you
pleasantly
inimitablygood.
poet.
strike
does
and
lawyer, but
are
well
so
are
were
that you
sure
am
and
metaphors
many
it *
praise,but
my
written.
in
of
Monthly
'
for
Monthly
July,i860.
lyell's
i860.]
July,August, and
the
with
October, which
1861, and
in
criticisms.
Selection
C. Darwin
been
DEAR
LYELL,
one.
much
much
to
C.
in
by
Natural
have
improved
tell with
it would
Selection ; and
make
novelty to
strong); yet
it too
its
to
though
reallyvery killing,
not
me,
You
in Australia.
inhabited
be
not
may
Australia
the
profound, why
structure,
becomes
or
for
form
advances
is
in
extinct,that I
Eocene
excellent
in
formations
become
not
feel that
quite
often
it may
however, you
yourselfput
the absolute
necessityof
in your
have
of
entirelyagree
many
with
becoming modified.
to make
any
in the
made
out
such
as
first
arisingin
you
I
say
about
remember
on
an
satisfactory
un-
have
you
variations
what
know
give only
can
answers,
so
the
on
monkeys
that you
or
same
we
letter,
taken
this may
or
retrogrades,
even
have
veloped
de-
have
they
and
difficulty,
vague
your
I admit
but
seems
ignorance is
our
organisation. Remember
:
it
highly
that
assume
be
not
answer
and
long period,
cannot
objection and
and
I cannot
organisationor
must
very
But
case.
one
have
Rodents
why
especially,
Natural
public (do
the
tempted by
letter
your
versus
case
done
having
In
your
I had
that
not
expected
been
have
letter
your
originalobjec
with
Selection
[i860].
12th
Hooker
letter to
letter of yours
on
chiefly
case,
(1876),
Lyell.
thoughtof showing
never
mentioned
might
as
"
interested
tions,founded
so
phlet
pam-
inconsistent with
not
Down, September
to any
'
Theology.']
Natural
My
'
'Natural
heading
reprintedas
were
chapteriii.in Darwiniana
form
now
339
the
on
right
the shore.
only one
this
species
struck
z
me
much
somewhere
in my
species,of
two
and
many
have
of the
'Origin.'
few
speciesof
saying
ever
genus
with
on
the Silurian
hardly know
the
in
common
singularhow
forms
; which
been
less
having
I think
been
make
that you
having
have
from
intermediate
some
not
having
grieve to
types,
as
see
well
of
with
become
of
types." Remember,
bryologicalargument
(the
intermediate
such
as
admit
forms
all the
as
to
difficulty,
in Australia ; but
; for
having
as
The
we
ought
descended
of
argument
highly developed
certain number
it
land.
form.
existed
of
; and
organic
all to expect
lower
or
set
water
of
areas,
or
sea
rare
competition having
change
Placentals
and
if you
the
Placentals
right at
myself
to
got
ancient,or
become
I have
of fresh
you
as
always repeat
confined
Australian
singlespecies is
are
rate
Marsupials and
at
Rodents
no
explained by
compared
Marsupials not
look
these
allude
modified
preserved, and
countries.
in small
do
said,that
have
to
one
any
the
and
slower
been
see
is
better
fact
inexplicable
inhabitants
of
many
severe,
fresh waters
I
the
on
much
best-known
somewhere
notes
species
and
classification,
Lingula.
why
few
to become
as
of
Ornithorhynchus having
we
so
vary
that
I often
as
explanation
you
Please
....
only very
time, I ought
same
engraved diagram.
quite agree
that
to
of
or
species;
new
have
one
remember
I cannot
the fact of
fundamental
in my
Trigonia,or
is
the
at
'
But
You
Instead
letter.
speciesvary
very
Origin
'
varying.
genus
in your
few
in the
to
wholly extinct
become
genera
stated
in each
even
whole
p. 341
see
of classification and
ideas
I have
absolutelyimplied
It is
point.
[i860.
plants,and
varieties of
this
on
SPECIES.'
OF
tabulating the
when
discussion
of
'ORIGIN
THE
340
in Australia
is much
there)
stronger.
of distinct successive
"
of
this,you
of
weightiest
distinct
up
the
me),
and
give
all to
aboriginal
em-
the
i860.]
pedigree
of
341
mammalia.
You
in
note
sent
to
letters,found
how
and
copied was
years
Sismondi
; and
E.'s
returned
and
ago
much
latelymy
them
I have
instead
C.
to
of
writing,
writing.
affectionately,
Darwin.
C.
C. Darwin
and
sortingher
her
than
Yours
copied
in
aunt,
to
observing is
fun
better
she
which
"
writing! !
own
your
shamefully idle,i.e.observing *
of late
been
E.
long
many
me,
Mme.
to
for it.
which
strikingextract
The
throat,
my
species.
for
much
So
; and
throat
own
your
cut
Lyell.
15 Marine
Parade, Eastbourne,
Sunday [September 23rd, i860].
My
Lyell,
DEAR
You
startinghere.
Never
think
honour
and
of
say
of 13
speak
pleasure,which
saving
at
is
written foliopages
closely
a
from
descended
opinion
decided
very
to
singleparent.
many
their habits
(as the
I have
all mammals
Reflect
the
on
large
due
to
has
been
But
in
similar
from
inheritance
cases
some
of the
stock.
similar
acquired by independent
organs,
of
such
some
Please
read
of
cases
have
of
acts
these
beginning,
Drosera.
at
to
am
The
Now
certainly
as
that
aware
natural
organ
selection.
apparently so
"
of
multitude
nearly similar
or
important homological
p. 193,
look
must
common
in which
occur
most
detected.
similarityI
of
amount
must
this
can
one
now
species!
on
answer
an
as
than
more
I receive.
that
answering
letter of yours
pretty deal
of bones
number
in
of
of thern
details,very
just before
18th
trouble
me
every
some
I have
of
of
this,for I look
of
letter of the
I got your
"
difference
electric
closely
may
be
organs,"
'ORIGIN
THE
342
and
trust
distinct
me
into
carefully
frame, internal
why
progenitor.
stronglythat
so
I have
I enclose two
just
choose
the
been
these
diagram
; whether
Lingula has
Mr.
I have
have
may
for
even
related
I do
the
as
This
Batrachians.
between
not
form
all
parent.
were
of
less
men
as
look
I should
All
unless,indeed,
from
some
has
the
Hottentot
one
believe,that
our
is
to
any
one
at
lower
become
dogs
it
as
less
and
probably
the
ape, that
and
closely
more
form.
against
goes
of
races
Birds,
Fish
known
other
any
man
(as in
are
the
the
look
from
one
of
races
men
aberrant
race
Supposing,as
descended
from
two
now,
than
even
I do
or
so
case
I should
progenitor),
probable that
extinct.
have
form,
Reptiles and
having certainlydescended
and
numerous
to
man
of all mammals
races
other
unknown
multipleoriginof dogs
at
would
conjecture.
is between
Lepidosiren now
unknown
singleorigin of
of descent
being
on
epoch,whereas
Mammals,
Ornithorhynchusthan
to
risen.
probably intermediate
intermediate
quity
anti-
preferNo.
gone
as
the
early period
very
supials
Mar-
Placentals, I
I should
not
of
with
have
complex
little
Waterhouse."
of
this agrees
ture
conjec-
thought
If the brain
that
Marsupials
too
"
knowledge enough
not
general rule
not
am
manner
beginning,
2, and
not
or
circumstances
on
molluscs
As
of
I
developed, or
depend
the sort
closely resembles
embryo
one
point.
diagrams.
two
see
from
letter,and
developed.
429,
will
you
descended
your
your
paragraph.)
between
in
should
have
writing page
(Please read
to
re-read
the whole
to
and
very-
I went
rashly,for
this argument
diagrams showing
that mammals
this when
in
put
all have
that I understand
sure
perfectly
on
not
of two
cases
external,of mammifers,
and
I think
[i860.
In all these
"
Apply
case.
every
SPECIES.'
OF
for
three
i860.]
PEDIGREE
"c.
wolves, jackals,
from
dogs
the
yet these
has
difference
species;
is
whether
since
the
With
whole
domesticated
man
DIAGRAM
vieiv,descended
our
on
domestic
of
amount
a
whether
or
have,
"
progenitor.
simply
produced
been
MAMMALIA.
unknown
single remote
question
OF
single
state
I.
A
MAMMALS,
NOT
MARSUPIALS
TRUE
NOR
PLACENTALS.
TRUE
II.
DIAGRAM
A
TRUE
MAiRSUPIALS
LOWLY
TRUE
developed:
MARSUPIALS
HIGHLY
DEVELOPED:
PLACENTALS
PRESENT.
MARSUPIALS
"
c
or
a
or
c
O
"-
now
Cr
are
ui
"J
of nature.
Agassiz
distinct
whether, when
this standard
3
O
were
KANGAROO
FAM:
Co. think
species,and
they
of
and
n
z
-(
e/1
rather
the
it is
less
value, deserve
specific
negro
mere
and
Caucasian
vain
discussion
distinct,they would,
to
be called
on
species.
'ORIGIN
THE
344
I agree
point ;
with
man
which
The
white
simile
the
and
be
might
is
man
which
answer
your
"
of
man
trust
to want
N.B.
of time
I know
"
Galapagos
keeping down
the
in islands
"c, whence
they
mammals
to
become
will
the
on
quite
letter,so
new.
"
even
(exceptmy
by man)
Still much
classes.
being
there
animals
be
of
of
of
grade
fish,reptiles,
developed.
the
neither
now,
If every
world, except
our
might elapse
ages
highly developed
on
scale
principle of inheritance,
class,and
neiv
intellectual !
for this
care
and,
some
though possiblymore
you
introduced
reptiles,millions
make
would
been
destroyed throughout
were
reptilescould
equal
islands
mammals,
could
and
rodents.
and
oceanic
between
mammal
new
well-established
before
to
new
earth
of the
bats
of other
attribute
organisation intermediate
nozv
have
may
good
any
elsewhere, [any]known
nor
vertebrate
to
on
development
I should
weight
more
which
mouse,
not
rodents
no
to
respect
down
as
me
alone, and
of
keeping
developed,strikes
races
this
give to yourselfon
you
now
improving
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
I have
mammals
not
not
idea
an
that
speculative.
Most
trulyyours,
C.
to Asa
C. Darwin
Darwin.
Gray.
Down, Sept.26 [i860].
I have
had
my
book, with
....
Harvey against
remarks
; but
understand
begged
touch
never
it
use
Now
him
as
even
an
it is
at
the
more
read
of
fourteen
I
the
Natural
Dialogue
extraordinary that
Lyell,Hooker,
does
and
not
you
express
others,who
'
say
fully my
I look
a
new
not
I have
as
Silliman,'
it clearer.
never
and
does
he
Selection.
in next
making
that
from
pages
ingenious
some
by
mean
subjectwithout
epithet which
folio
extraordinary fact
an
all what
to
letter
word
you
at
or
meaning.
understand
perfectly
my
i860.]
cirripedes.
of truth
has
thrown
been
not
view, I
in my
when
modification
you
tell
me
you
did
at
of
much
fact
far
gives me
further
or
reallylike
will
time
of
large amount
do
firmly than
know
this.
with
correspondence
Can
now.
more
to
come
can
Lyell, who
at
himself
I think
months, and
the
did at first or
believe
immense
my
great labour
you
I should
fair amount
is any
that your
believe, that
you
himself, converted
to
species,than
first ?
objected to
well assured
am
almcst
whether
perceive in
; if there
over
Well,
I demur.
will go
you
is
away.
and
yet hope
which
expressionsto
use
extraordinarylabour
your
345
this is the
case
than
C. Darwin
to
15 Marine
C.
This
Hooker.
with
fact.
other
any
last six
the
during
even
confidence
more
much
very
Lyell.
Parade, Eastbourne,
am
book.
my
No
begun
fellow
very
doubt
to
working
rather
parts that
But
they
is
so
the utmost
There
Krohn,
one
the
on
other
and
the
on
'
the
of
crowing
at
gentleness and
papers
Cement
the
He
two
thank
by Aug.
Glands,
I say
xxv.
and
marked
xxvi.
that he
My
"
that
even
I put
on
I describe.
all this is because
my
I have
father
blundered
the
cement
fullyabout
Autobiography,'p. 81.
'
three
Heaven,
all,pointed out
pleasantness.
been
or
parts which
why
good
has
difficult dissection
not
development
Cirripedes,Wiegmann's Archiv,'
and
of
two
are
him.
detected
giganticblunders, and
were
to
ently
independ-
not
Krohn
not
which,
Such
has
reading
which
chieflythe interpretation
wrong,
Krohn, instead
with
has
about
It is
who
write
to
....
doubtfully.
failed.
Huxley
meant
Germans
the
species. Is
Cirripedes, and
at
about
converted
about
long
gigantic blunders,
spoke
hear
to
will be
one
I have
glad
errors
always
has
re-
dread-
glands,"
346
meant
write
to
I cannot
minds, that
from
from
argument
of
races
man
varieties
and
with
quite agree
is possibleunder
the
form
same
selection
organism's own
like
men
has
read
remarked
to
plants!
No
And
may
he
him
main
one
be
the
that
argument
they
"
Hooker
ever
injuresthe
case
because
species i.e.y
not
tion
varia-
that whatever
says,
accumulated
natural
;" if
I had
that
; not
nature
arrived
and
by
pleasure,and
"
natural
have
selection
used
"
by
at
for the
selection
book
cannot
twice.
Dr.
one
could
add
now
de
commence
British
Museum
obviouslyimpossiblewith
was
tell him
that
of the
Gray
that, "selection
me
to
preservation."For I find
understand
me, though he
natural
of Dublin
Harvey
the
dog
good.
of
I would
novo,
the
culture,is possibleunder
wouLd
for man's
Talking
that
weakened
what
on
tinct
entity,something quitedis-
an
that
so
fertility,
are
deeply impressedone
of the
Is it not
are
the
speciesis
variety?
Dr.
suppose
him.
remnant
him.
thank
argument
as
feelinga
your
our
reach
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
and
yet how
see
properlybrought
Is not
him
to
would
Krohn, Bonn,
all
'ORIGIN
THE
how
be
it could
the author
did
"
!
possible
attempt it
not
to
!
Yours
ever
affectionately,
C. Darwin.
C. Darzvin
to
C.
15 Marine
Lyell.
Parade, Eastbourne,
October
My
DEAR
Lyell,
"
the
send
8th
[i860].
[English]translation
of
and praise
Bronn,* the firstpart of the chapterwith generalities
is not
apparently,and
*
There
translated.
MS.
chapterof
in
translation
are
good
some
hits.
part truly,tellingcase
of Bronn's
objectionsat the
end
of
his
'
German
He
makes
against me,
translation
Origin of Species.'
an
says
of
the
i860.]
that
bronn's
another
longer
that
these
ask
might
in the
two
of
into
play.
at
or
if he
admits
who
thinks
that
or
variety,
ever
about
of the
regions
I have
and
ordered
if it turns
I
species
give
birth
to
Your
of
case
occur.
from
the
might
come
unlike
animals
clothes, will
his
hominem.
several
that
supposing
from
relation
some
fashions
did
so
differences
these
in
ad
part
contemporaneous.
created
supposing
the
Glacial
periods,
development
I presume
world.
supposed
on
goes
migration
that
he
into
all
forms.
will lend
; I suppose
the
that
capacity
species.
you
God
assuming
one
or
this, selection
my
glad
very
new
thinks
in
and
it to
you,
if you
like,
good.
out
having
not
he
man
Bree,* and
Dr.
am
as
dominant
more
fact
standing
as
parts of the
this
in
argumentum
my
in all
misunderstood
or
my
about
rate
same
in
such
no
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the
has
; and
blunders
whether
whether
use,
force
any
Bronn
He
He
together,
be
to
tail
longer
muddle
to
vary
as
has
seems
of any
sport
admit
other,
creationist
growth
mere
not
the
rats
laws
for
the
he
all
not
347
rat
one
But
did
before
why
"c.
ears,
parts
insensibly
I
explain
cannot
objections.
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I
to
that
always
am
am
about
you
in fact
though
vary,
seems
Indian
Red
misunderstood
very
apt
few
to
do
understand
mis-
fancying objections.
shows
that
me
we
agree
entirely
I had
much
letter
opposed
I
familiar
various
yesterday
to
become
phenomena
to
with
of
Thwaites
of
"
now
your
nature,
says,
views
the
in
find
that
connection
they
more
Ceylon,
commend
mind."
my
*
He
me.
from
Species
not
Transmutable,' by
C.
R.
Bree,
1S60.
who
was
the
more
with
the
selves
them-
34"
'ORIGIN
THE
C. Darwin
RodwelL
J. M.
to
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
Eastbourne.
Parade,
15 Marine
5th [i860].
November
My
Sir,
DEAR
letter,which
it is of
can
spoke
W.
D.
Fox
me
had
numerous
gradually lost
of
was
if you
Cape
of
some
one
a
ought
had
not
which
gradually
as
do
know
not
but
blood
Kirby
uncle,
remember,
can
by marriage,
taken
gives
of your
as
have
to
and
cats.
your
in your
would
languages you
to
have
you
Good
vilelybad
head
Birth,Life, and
book.
Sir
carry
out
Death
of
I remember
J. Herschell
must
for
languages,I
to
feel
the
me,
I wish
treated
!
awful
an
this the
at
the Koran
be to translate
Words."
ago
years
saying
tention
in-
your
think
some
treat
linguist
you
"
to
capital title,and
Hope,
would
will be able
you
the
writing on
difficult part of
most
uncle
your
that
sincerelyhope
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breeding
in
had
he
kitten
heard
long
as
Rev.
first-rate naturalist.
of
in
of
in its eyes
not
f yet
The
also
paper
case
I had
for years
French
curious
I, for
that you
that
hearing.
cats
foreignbreeds
of various
colour
care
the
about
and
correlation,
very
% (whom
me
been
have
of
Kirby
Mr.
veins,and
one
blue
power
letters show
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the
venerated)
whether
and
Kirby's case
have
the
full
plum-pudding, so
rash
cases
for your
obliged
good authority.
me,
exception.
an
cases,
acquired its
list of
to
been
to
observed
vainly sought
Mr.
I have
seemed
gave
he
only
compare
what
on
much
extremely
am
good things.
which
"
geology.
Having
respect for
linguists.
J. M. Rodwell, who was
at
Cambridge with my father,rehim
It strikes
members
saying:
*
Rev.
"
"
me
the
much
know
that
all
our
of
structure
like what
of
knowledge
our
an
hundred
acre
in
field,
she
is
scratching."
inf
eyes are
variablydeaf," Origin of Species,'
"
Cats
with
blue
'
ed. i. p.
about
is very
hen would
earth
old
of which
corner
%
with
12.
William
Kirby, joint
Spence,of
troduction
to
the well-known
Entomology,'
author
'
In-
181S.
860.]
I
REVIEWS.
do
line ; but
it
as
and
of letters which
'
would
be
be
genesis of
You
facts which
any
I should
that
sure
am
the
ingeniously.
very
me,
communicate
would
you
brieflyon
he treats
to
seems
brother-in-law, Hensleigh
my
Etymological Dictionary
'
Wedgwood's
your
whether
know
not
349
grateful.
most
receive,not
in
one
words
kindly
might
my
cordial
written
in
haste, pray
believe
me,
the multitude
this
C. Darwin
sincerelyobliged,
C.
to
Darwin.
LyelL
November
I have
tremendous
long
4to Mem.
of the
I hear
way,
advice
'
on
American
is
put
going
of
It has
"Remarks
Life
on
any
it would
occurred
must
specialfact
on
the
to
might
not
Professor of Natural
you
be
has
good plan
to
a
to
implicitly
been
the
advice.
the
errors
reviewer
Secondly, it
err.
trust
will
especiallywant
that where
me
will
reviewers.
attacked, I should
Religion and
latest form
Development Theory." By
Francis Bowen,
There
to
fortyor fifty)
to
of
me
telling
I think
perhaps
the
in the
me
exclusivelydevoted
none,
Earth.'
the
know
in the
absolutely
guided by your
reader
that he
for
heard.
edition,and
(some twenty
common
Thirdly,when
against
not
you
Bowen
or
Sciences.f (By
you
I had
new
that
has
now
the reader
which
a
me,
notes
reviewers.
erred, a
of
thunder
to
[1S60].
Phillips yet,
Professor
Academy
I shall be
to
which
Origin,'
read
by
point, and
and
set
to
20th
*
Contributions.')Thank
one
occurred
It has
of the
review
of
'Origin,'
of men,
wisest
show
hostile
time, I presume,
some
has
heart
Agassiz
part of the
your
had
not
....
of my
is like
untidy letter
Ch.
you,
Sir,
dear
my
Yours
to
that
to
occur
Of
and,
say
thousand
apologiesfor
thanks, and
With
be
in value.
yours
next
all in
at
like
Moral
Harvard
Philosophy,at
University. 'American
Academy
of
vol. viii.
Arts
and
Sciences,'
'
THE
35o
mere
rough specimen,
done
from
of
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alone
memory
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thing
be
to
to
the
show
to
do
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me.
"
the
me
me
it would
have
confidence
to
the
reader.
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through all
the reviews.
seems
accuracy
just
up,
this well ?
to
It
or
care
any
torn
occurred
to consider
great kindness
without
"
I enclose
of anger.
sort
no
done
[i860.
SPECIES.'
OF
show
I would
it.
defend
to
ORIGIN
bore
horrid
[be]a
going
affectionately,
Yours
C. Darwin.
seems
to
have
continued
explain the
not
one
reference
'
The
in
vary
'
The
throws
number,
"
Contents
Branchiae
of
to it.
vol.
Hopkins ('Fraser,'
I
am
) states
quoting only
p.
from
"
vague
favour
memory
of my
Record,"
the
and
first time
Science
he has
being
even
But
the most
I
can
organs
that,"I
"
views
and
the
says
the
logical
Geo-
this
is
in the
History of
heard of ignorance
ever
adduced
I
argue
from
imperfectionof
extreme
Reviewer
these
on
from
Mr.
as
vertebras.
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and
his Table
that he alludes
vertebrae,only
Edinburgh
doubt
work
caudal
to
Reviewer
fact." I nowhere
the dorsal
cases
Lyell :
in
my
vertebrae
"dorsal
the
some
directly
) quotes
to volume
and
writingfoot-notes,
was
or
'
that in
seen
Saturday
Review,
a
s
Phillips, I see in
do
pressure.
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to
exploded
the
interpretedinto
be
to
(vol.
p.
saying that
of pigeons
disputesthe
allude
"
which
word
can
indirectly
any
of the cells
pressure." But
of
say
by
that
asserts
structure
Bee
Hive
doctrine
he
if writing to
as
(p.
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Dr.
of the
forgottenthat
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to
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left blank.
being
page
references
as
an
ment.
argu-
repeatedly admit,in
of
to transitorial forms
is most
Cirripedes.
to
views.
1854 admits, strongly opposed
my
that they are
without
Surely there is a wide difference in
hesitation,
did John Hunter
and
fullyadmitting an objection,
as
long
Branchiae,
in endeavouring to show
then
that
ago.
being
But
the
Professor
to
to
that
be
am
from
struck
be
inserted
convinced
a
culation it is not
Cal-
Wealden
confounded
The
note
in
Owen
out, and
the
to
of
review
and
that
effect
its inaccuracy
in
the
the
*
strong
so
in Mr.
I found
as
it at first appears,
tion
Hopkins's asser-
my
argument
on
Objection.
I
would
also
put
note
to
i860.]
variously it
general form
of
manner
*
in
writer
the
'
Edinburgh
denies
'
PhilosophicalJournal
that the Woodpecker
statement
Plata never
La
frequentstrees.
is
but, what
years,
Azara, whose
purpose,
been
ranked
in
and
cently,
re-
Picus
"
as
"
but
distinct
Picidse.
the
amongst
differs from the
all
same
woodpeckers,
genus
the
accuracy
has
now
genus
same
other
all
same
flight,colouring
was
classed, until
It
with
the
of body, the
in the
two
to
more
voice.
my
of
during
habits
its
observed
and
pointed tongue,
stood.
misunder-
been
has
how
show
Selection,"and
Natural
..
351
REVIEWS.
It
typicalPicus only
beak, not being quite so
the
am
strong, and in the upper mandible
emphatic
I think
in regard to its never
frequenting being slightlyarched.
these facts fullyjustifymy
that
ment
stateMr. A. Murray denies
trees.
it
is
in
that
all
essential
it ought to be called a woodpecker ;
pecker.]
in front and
it has
two
toes
two
parts of its organisation a Woodbehind,pointedtail feathers,a long
admit,
is
than
more
"
"
C. Darwin
My
Huxley,
dear
I have
I could
good digs ;
new
on
have
Reviews
service.
enormous
criticisms
to
be very
course,
but
I can,
hate
and
The
series
the
hate
eret to
*
not
of the
of
make
If you
on
to
much
have
me.
first number
the 'Nat.
How
set
I shall
Hist.
the
Review'
to
did
work
says
the
at
the
think
subject an
important suggestions or
any
you
it is God's
new
If it
always
'
Origin,'I should,of
mean
must
to correct
be
appeared in
\
The
3rd
1861.
edition.
as
wearied
blessingif
Adios.
of
I will
good
Origin.' [Murray]
part of the
enlarge.
give two
Review.*
I must
sale.
an
thinking how
I could
the
see
that
'
write
confoundedly
so
with
entirelyyours,
any
subject,and
it
[i860].
22
before
first,
for [them].For
grateful
not
don't
I believe
very
the
improved
sake
you
Murray
those
see
reallydo much,
edition
Nov.
myself
impatient
to-day from
I heard
as
very
it may
succeeds
once
be
I will
but
Down,
do
amused
sometimes
I shall
try.
would
best
three
or
Huxley.
heaven's
For
"
article ; you
anti-Darwinian
well.
T. H.
to
you
far
with
do
not
352
'ORIGIN
THE
SPECIES.'
OF
C. Danviu
C.
to
Lyell.
November
Down,
My
LYELL,
DEAR
had
reviewers
my
; but
of
convinced
was
follow
at his
P.S.
You
begin
must
the
notices
in
passage
Not
against me.
and
different
if Darwin
himself, that
both
organs
"I
get
edition.
find
reviews, without
of
here
a
by
them,
new
shall
and
that
I
and
little
paragraph.
with
notice
enlargement
and
here
Broun
the
which
respect
I
of
is
so
pleased
me.
of fish
as
and
to me,
who
me
have
electric
the
near
head
in
there
could
to
be any
me,
must
be
seems
said
to
homologous
non-electric
fish.
his
his
objections with
I think I shall improve
my
good deal, and add only
name.
a
twenty
some
letter to
pages."
"
Lyell,December
t
Origin
of
April 1 86
1.
On
'
to
reports that he
giving
book
writes
supplied by wholly
tail in other
there
alone
copies
overwhelming
as
opposed
right,there
my new
advice
your
all
answer
direct
any
there, with
treat
can
fishes
is much
slowlywith
on
excellent.
was
is
head
the
near
case
impossiblethat
McDonnell,
over
I shall
singularlydisingenuous spirit.
others, and
friend,who
Some
has
have occurred
seems
an
supply
to
electrical organs
the
are
What
he sold 700
says
the whole
tail in
It
nerves.
crowed
have
the
near
transition.
to
in
remote
very
some,
only
I
letter,
you.
(a first-rate man),
of
difficulty
felt the
follow
I adduce
organs
of the
that he
; he
one
that
remember
may
once,
tell you
I must
"
at
as
not
to
exactly.
Murray
that he has
snub
of your
friends
best
case,
advice.*
your
such
letter
from
justheard
sale,and
that I
have
to
me
of
letter.
I could
the end
to
got
wisdom
hint in your
every
I have
I had
24th [i860].
for your
determined, in any
was
the
it is to
advantage
one
advice,and, before
your
much
you
take
to
got
I thank
"
[i860.
the
third
From
4th, i860,
edition
of
Species,'published
the
in
i860.]
He
design.
set
to
of
some
McDonnell
?
must
is
difficulty
the
pass
doctrine, but
viz.
Morphology
seems
that
led
have
; he
says,
knows
accord
to Asa
GRAY,
thank
to
for
reviews
hopeless to printyour
of getting pamphlets
impossibility
the
say that
to
reprintedin
I have
but
the
not
'
Annals
yet
But
do
you
it there.
seen
Design.
separate thing
each
crucial
"
you
lead
cannot
led
few
'
men.
On
an
Yet
organ
VOL.
II.
along
I think
Fantail
was
in
the
Skate,
homologue
'
History
that
am
the
(p.414) that
as
far
in
an
world, as
look
at
To
take
you
believe
cannot
Design.
you
would
led
to
to
been
have
vary
with
over
in order
appears to be the
of the electrical organ of the Torwhich
infer
to
me
of
glad
rable.
before,admi-
that
yet I
; and
the
to
honestly go
think
was
as
conscious
result
the
it
very
I read
me,
I cannot
am
am
of Natural
to
I cannot
and
this ; and
tail of the
the
that
example,
as
I
'
Atlantic
seems
see
known.
Yesterday
that
say
utterlyhopelessmuddle.
we
it
that
saying
Magazine
and
grieve to
about
'
second
or
care
as
August
letter
my
pamphlet, owing
as
letters. The
received
you
reprint,and
American
an
well,and
26th,i860.
for two
you
before
corrections,written
latter with
asking
I have
"
well,
Gray.
Down, November
DEAR
in
subject.
C. Darwin
My
years
believer
he
views
my
coveries
pretty dis-
to
subjectswhich
that
so
satisfactory
call himself
to
Embryology,
and
is it not
cautious
very
the
on
the whole
lighton
should
!*
them
found
; and
he will venture
before
my
throw
removed
hypotheticalnotions
that my
353
believe,
to
in the
number
gratifythe capriceof
a
wild
bird,and had
pedo,'by R. McDonnell,
Hist Review,'1861,p. 57.
2
'
Nat.
its abnormal
used
the
wind,
What
"
'ORIGIN
THE
354
unlike
other
shall
and
Thank
you
with which
remain, in
much
for Bowen's
makes
would
one
4to. review.*
all animals
be
to
at
The
destitute
of accumulative
against the possibility
selection ! The
actuallyleave out, entirely,
be
Short-horn,
is
without
show
that
much
not
heard
that Du
book
goes
be
well, and
on
sale
.
are,
an
tion,
selec-
man's
the
'
species
'
Atlantic
according
Book.
you
Bowen,
to
multitude
I must
of
begin
a
you
I have
The
me.
at
once
has
on
for the
copy
just
sale of my
reviews
T. H.
to
not
new
chance
sick you
of
must
Huxley.
Down,
little and
I will send
to
you
notions
are
truth
of
Memoirs
in
use
copy
few
of the
with
showing
the
2nd
I have
doctrine
far
than
that
of the American
more
[i860].
less,
Nevertheto
expatiate
Of
coitrse
edition
new
you,
when
me
discussions.
new
terrific,
yet having seen
againstme,
said
of
introduce
entirelyagree
been
have
they
Dec.
I have
....
that
of it !
C. Darwin
should
natural
ever
he
chance
with
my
with
agrees
the
so
so
about
I will send
edition.
corrected
tell you
to
is
reason
out
Bois-Reymond
stopped the
your
he leaves
but
of
variation,and
without
in
capitally
Astronomy
and
Geology
Metaphysics;
I have
variation
selection. How
natural
I say
Pouter-pigeon,should
to nothing ;
infinity
almost
as
improved
or
accumulative
produced by
said,
coolness
that
103,
p.
argue
improved
have
hopelessmuddle.
It is monstrous
absurd.
simply
to sail before
as
ever
he
[i860.
specialend,
some
birds, every
and
beautiful
I am,
tail for
SPECIES.'
OF
the
what
difficulties
all the Reviews
confidence
formerly had.
Academy
of Arts
and
in
the
Another
on
my
have
general
thing
vol. viii.
Sciences,'
i860.]
gives
with
pamphlet.
confidence,viz. that
me
me
are
gray's
dr.
now
go
who
some
who
some
half
went
inch
an
bitterlyopposed
were
And
bitterlyopposed.
less
now
further,and
355
this makes
feel
me
the
little
did
should
I consider
first. This
at
be
that, if
adopted, it
will be
by
for
forgiveme
I
as
do, one
then
view
is
lines of
so
think
to
be
to
can
generally
and
up
replacing
can
better
investigation
that
on
findingthat they
ones
new
you
Otherwise
of belief.
ever
growing
young
running on
gets
degree
men
out
ominous.
your
descent, than
of
notion
the
on
my
young
search
facts and
group
with
contented
more
rather
of
creation.
But
egotistically.
Living so solitary
in
of one's
sillymanner
own
work.
Ever
yours
sincerely,
very
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker
December
Down,
I heard
A.
from
Gray
this
the three
he is going to reprint
send
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mass
chapters of
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English
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10,
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appeared, and,
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Origin of Species
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Plants,' Descent
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C, Darwin
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e.g., the
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HOOKER,
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the
rejoices
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botanical
Jan. 15 [1861].
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Linnean
Society in February
paper,
the Class
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April,1857, in
to place man
distinct
order,
sub-class
but
of the
which
he
only
not
in
"
Mammalia"
proposed
in a
distinct
"
the
Life
on
the Earth
Prof.
'
You
need
Phillips,
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of the
Rede
Lecture
stance
sub-
(May
(i860),
by
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followingsentence
(p.16)
not
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by Dr. Bree, illustrates the degree in
which
he understood
the
Origin of
"The
real
difference
only
Species':
l
from
'
between
Mr.
Darwin
and
his
two
from
days
other
the
works,
study of
and
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Mr.
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Darwin's
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discussion
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with
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your
!
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and
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you
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letter from
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thought
2, 1861.
which
to
LYELL,
DEAR
his reviews
in
Woman
February
the
it
milder, I
little
read
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C. Darwin
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what
entirelyfail
soon
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you
paper
a
'
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very little strength
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weather
been
arrived
are
read
has
mend
plot is wonderfullyinteresting. I can recomwhich
has interested
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me
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Country.' It is an admirably lively
? the
results
Typical Selection
Have
cure.
there.
and
suspect I shall
this dreadful
as
here
all my
husband
more
littlewater
'
not
I sometimes
soon
must
and
more
Origin of Species by
page
Mr.
have
not.
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which
see
Zoological Societyon
the
before
'
observe
to
analogy."
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at
only by
at
reader
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on
Organic Affinity/read
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He
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Dr.
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359
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360
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allow
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former,which
forms,
speciesor
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perfectly-
logical."
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this marvellous
?
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
J. D. Hooker.
to
Feb.
Down,
My
Hooker,
DEAR
chatty letter,and
science.
but
longer ;
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can
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and
twice
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it.
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thank
possibleis becoming
life
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was
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holiday is
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man
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was
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to
almost
"
[1861].
thing
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....
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lizards' guts
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to appear
much
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the
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hybrid, and
in
review.
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would
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strict
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to
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; but
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doing little,
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l86l.]
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the
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volume
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of 'Variation
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4
of
Transactions]
Mr.
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species then
and
south
that
with
climate
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had
their former
forsaken."
equator
to
this
and
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offered
(1874),p.
"I believe
266.
extermination
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land."]
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horse),
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refuge
below
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locked
up
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struck
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by
in frozen
for
were
the immense
masses
on
the
J. D. Hooker.
to
day.
found
was
ocean,
Down,
DEAR
species
many
C. Darwin
MY
in
zone
distant
Mr.
to.
Naturalist
answer
now
was
'
refers
glacialperiod, that
loweringof
that
the
this is not
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living at
speciesnow
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course
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relationshipto
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to
...
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case
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in
homes, leavingsome
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ought
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slowlymodified subsequently
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butions
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Valley,"in
Amazon
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living near
to
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of the
Fauna
the
points
period, of
4t
Insect
an
my
....
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Mr.
to
with
slowly
most
on
Domestication.'
refers
36l
BATES.
MR.
intended
am
glad
so
with
it.
have
to
you
you
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explanationsome
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The
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day
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my,"
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Wollaston's
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words
I,"
dimly conscious
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that
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can
perhaps
'
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introduction,
it
says
self-sufficient
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parentheses in
of the
times
forty-three
occur
which
logically,
C. Watson
paragraphs
the accursed
whether
(and
character
generic
I had
good joke :
first four
of
in your
write
you
and
Linnean.'
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in the
me,"
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write
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EVOLUTION.
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cooling.
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OF
SPREAD
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I wonder
so.
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most
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writing.
Hooker,
dear
my
ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
P.S.
Do
"
not
spread
this
it is rather
pleasingjoke ;
too
biting.
C. Darwin
to
J. D. Hooker.
23? [1861.]
[April]
Down,
I
....
Hutton's
very
quite
Review
original.
change
of
doctrine
f (who
He
is
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he
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by Lieutenant
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132,
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how
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see
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and
that
the
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me
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few
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of the Staff
and
judge it in
been
much
College. The
merged
Geologist'was afterwards
in the
GeologicalMagazine.'
copies, Hutton,
1861,p.
Geologist,'
it struck
directlyproved,
clearlythe rightway.
2000
few
Lieutenant
on
say
reallycurious
you
is I know
of the
one
species cannot
explains phenomena.
this way,
with
agree
'
iS6i.]
ROLLESTON,
by Bentham's
interested
would
not, of course,
I liked
paper*
from
turning
nothing
of British
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subject in
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Edgeworth, Wallich,
give
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no
his ideas
us
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such
do
so
obscure
called
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Chambers,
had
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over
on
the
subject,and
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Every
one
he
but
his
has
nice
house
in
if
and
is
good
anything
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talk ; he
remark
good
out
real
read
Canons.'
'
so
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with
never
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one
do
speakingwith
Bell
it.
or
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his very
made
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was
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as
us
John's
is
really
chuckled
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'
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'
not
I shall be anxious
with
think
and
Bentham
partiallywith
me
paper,
at
I asked
excellent matter.
enjoyed
self-evident
not
capital fellow.
Rolleston's
and
on
that
me
the Linnean
Lubbock,
dinner
my
trulyon
I wrote
and
whether
Henslow.j
liked
and
I liked
of
him
knows
his remarks
at
others.
made
him.
that
and
British
he
that
Bentham
with
write
attack
novelty to
would
anxiety
pleasedat
saw
species;
the
also
me
several
manner
you
Club,
heart.
so
his
and
of
he
against us,
answer,
talk
some
of
it
me.
of close
nature
saying
it showed
it did
as
you
and
was
Origin.' I
'
had
Society, and
R., but
H.
think
! to
noses,
plants!
the
on
Heavens
because
classification,
on
facts
their
up
N.
the
in
strike
familiarity,
; all the
the whole
63.
HENSLOW.
sincere
joined in it,but
for your
next
sympathy,
my
had
left it to the
letter about
old
clergy.
Henslow."
well,
Fare-
friend,
C. Darwin.
On
the
of
Prof.
illness.
Henslow
was
in his
of
of
man
much
learning,
publishedworks,
ford.
last
t George Rolleston,M.D.,F.R.S.,
b.
who
left but
which
among
his
few
may
handbook,
Life.'
Hist.
For
the
'
be
Forms
mentioned
of Animal
'
Canons,' see
Review,' 1861, p. 206.
" Sir
Henslow's
Joseph
Hooker
son-in-law.
was
'
Nat.
Prof.
364
SPREAD
P.S.
We
"
like
We
better
are
reading
than
in
very
much
much
of
under
am
Gardeners"
ham
give them
letter refers
next
made
the
at
stone
thirteen
the
surface
satisfied
"
of the
me
the
many
so
of
depth
"
diately
soil,"resting imme-
the
first
the
the
at
had
who
James Wyatt,
"
visit
The
1861.
implements
of
Bidden-
the
to
April
Mr.
time,
extinct
Sir
Here, says
which
evidence
saw
chronologicalrelations
antique tools,the
the
"
for
....
in for
them
of oolitic-limestone."
solid beds
Lyell,
in
of
two
on
very
and
Athenaeum
the
Lyell'svisit
to
invitation
from
on
go
up.
recentlydiscovered
feet
not
taken
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gravel-pitsnear
was
I have
incomparably
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shall
You
Review.'
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'
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will be ruined
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EVOLUTION.
Athencenm.
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phethe
and
mammalia,
glacialformation."]
C. Darwin
to
Lyell.
April 12 [1861].
Down,
My
by
Lyell,
DEAR
letter.
your
the
made
and
"
You
have
been
grandestwork,
the
done
have
to
seem
interested
deeply
most
one
that
you
with
respect
to
man.
It is
especialrelief
an
depositsare
superficial
ago
saying to
was
of these
accumulation
the work
beds.
grand.
*
hear
and
deltoid
think
deposits,seemed
not
stomach
I remember
Antiquityof Man,'
the
manner
French
days
of the
debacles
Falconer
the
; but two
semi-marine
I could
done.
It is
to
told
lacustrine
or
me
that
he
LYELL'S
l86l.]
thought
of
some
with
celts
What
fine
is
and
hyena
now
caverns
have
you
sure
am
accumulated
jumped
thought
never
this
the
at
of
It
for the
is
grand.
the
given
view, though,
idea.
work
cocks
on
I will think
But
ten, I will
before
quarter
contrary),for
long
to
human
on
you.
Tuesday
congratulate
P.S.
Tell
"
funereal
Lady
ceremonies
often
told
bishops.
carry
away
to
ants,
have
your
yours,
they plant
and
plant
that
have
find
I
have
food.
forwarded
cultivate
old
the
left the
the
ants
of
I
gentleman
the
who
Texas,
for
grass
do
is
with
responsibility
I.e. to read
them
before
the
Linnean
as
has
dently
evi-
positively
most
store
food,
not
know
not
tionally.
fibbing intenBusk
what
whether
the letters.*
utmost
extraordinary
declares
kind
!
seen
most
in
for shelter
have
fellow-creature
two
carefully,and
they
display
dead
away
Erasmus
that
always
Ants
the
digest
to
day
some
backwoodsman
bushes
other
and
carry
just
ants
that
think, except
for
unable
was
Darwin.
notwithstanding that
battle
Busk, from
I should
dead
watched
read
of the
always
and
But
that
After
the
economy,
Lyell
that
me
their
to
the
to
on
you
C.
letters
hear
(unless I
to
about
morning,
Ever
food.
work.
grand
has
there.
saw
on
note,
your
all I
you
culties
diffi-
some
reading
London
been
having
see
Wednesday
on
call
see
over
to
up
hens, and
and
think
first
at
am
parallel roads
subsidence.
during
on
no
were
conclusion
your
hippopotamus.
pedigree
long
Devonshire
in the
race
remains
this,I presume,
and
pre-glacial,
older
the
365
WORK.
Society.
to
or
366
C. Darwin
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
OF
SPREAD
Davidson*
Thomas
to
"
make
to
it is
aware
book
that
I have
that"
universallyadmitted,
be
formation
is intermediate
formations
above
remarked
have
with
and
that
admit
those who
that
the
*
in
born
of
geology
and
palaeontology,
especiallyto the
and
directed
were
were
the sciences
with
chieflyconnected
so
much
favourable
R.
to
the
to
able
unfavour-
to
notion
on
history, geological
Salter
board
Chambers
of
some
(April 30,
1861).
% John William
Salter; b. 1820,
d. 1869. He entered the service of
the GeologicalSurvey in 1846,and
its Palaeontologist,
ultimatelybecame
fication,
elucidation of the characters, classiand
suspect
ago, Mr.
year
you
inclined
am
very
than
win
researches
His
; if so,
Street,glued
F.R.S.,
Davidson,
Edinburgh, May 17, 18 17 ;
1885.
died
this better
out
will
one
every
turn
this
detail
some
Now
might
But
that
be
in
out
; for about
Jermyn
Thomas
it would
beings.
of the
that
reallygood judges
do
be
it would
in
museum
several
of any
fauna
between
could
me.f
to
modification
with
descent
in
opposed
are
the whole
on
I hold
which
the views
to
of
result
Brachiopods. The
with
I do
adopt
'
worked
in the world
one
no
would
whole, the
desirable
single group
some
well
perfectly
am
'
But
how
me
turing
ven-
my
as
exemplified and
be
should
to
character
in
below.
and
which
for
me
Originof Species ; in
remark, which I apprehend will
the
made
excuse
that you
read
have
you
you
chance
remote
very
will
that you
hope
suggestionto
whether
know
not
Sir,
DEAR
the retirement
on
Forbes,
in 1863.
and
gave
of Edward
the
up
associated
office
facts
taken
He
with
was
geographicaldistribution of recent
several
well-known
this
naturalists
in
fossil Brachiopoda. On
and
work
with
their
Murout
he
an
Sedgwick,
important
subject brought
and Huxley.
Fossil
British
chison,Lyell,
Ramsay,
Brachiopoda,'
work,
There
entries
under
his
of the
are
sixty
5 vols. 4to. (Cooper, Men
in the Royal Society Catalogue.
name
Time,' 1884.)
"
'
'
"
Mr.
Davidson
full believer
in
is not
all
great changes
which
species,
will make
all the
valuable."
more
at
"
The
of
his
work
C.
Dar-
from
Salter
above
are
notice
of
Mr.
obituary
in the
zine,'
Geological Maga1S69.
an
'
lS6l.]
in
(likethe diagram
formations
it),and
seemed
result
the
longed
had
have
to
gladlypaid
the expense
publish a
little paper
to
that
beings
in
subject,who
would
All
those
which
forms
considerable
change
whether
brachiopods
amount
of
which
is
genus
transmitted
Another
point is
fossils. I
cannot
important
than
one
it is
care
to
like
the
from
unbroken,
extinction,with
by
but
think
hundred
in
forgive me
good
notion, I would
for
the
you
this
you
you
And
may
The
considered, and
to
read
antiquityof
vaguely
seem
I should
to
it
of each
appeared
inclined
to
If
be written
I know
or
leisure,
to
Chapter
like in this
not
kindness
your
by
in
(farmore
essay
have
its
to
poor
great labour.
I trust
my
how
between
for formations
not
the
at
character
The
is
absolute
be
suggestion.
were
fear
My
very
subject,but
making
ask
undergone
groups
important
an
omitted,
such
the
made
that
be
in
some
of
ancient
an
epoch.
first time
without
fortune
Succession.
how
doubt
modification.
have
time.
as
Salter
group
literaryreviews)might
highlyprobable that
dislike
from
in
to
allowance
due
yourself,and
for, or
later
much
it has
think, because
allied forms.
to
reallydiminished,
is not
group
ought
Mr.
thoroughly
one
enough.
forms
have
hardly
can
which
intermediate
are
would
with
successive
the
of time
appeared
down
changed
of
difference
oppositeextremes
far the early forms
have
arranged by
consider
come
was
as
ought, I think, to
each
at
affinities.
any
descent
considered
alone
forms
those
those
have
to
of
view
slightlymodified
period very
and
point of
this
under
subject.
occur
know
of
persuade
not
points would
the
if you
lines, and
I could
the
on
lines
engraved,
curious
many
instructed
but
the
dotted
by
marking
though
striking,
very
shells
these
connected
Salter, and
Mr.
me
appreciate
ignorant fully to
too
to
lines
book,
in my
them
arranged
horizontal
branching lines,with
single and
the
palaeozoicstages, and
three
from
"c,
Spirifers,
367
BRACHIOPODA.
ON
DAVIDSON
ordinary
extra-
any
take
X.
case
this
up
on
logical
Geoto
be
368
OF
SPREAD
send
permitted to
in
which
Chapters IX.
Pray
of
copy
you
I have
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
added
the
edition,just published,
new
corrected
and
somewhat
in
X.
and
this
excuse
C. Darwin.
P.S.
I write
"
bad
so
hand
had
I have
that
this note-
copied.
C. Darwin
Davidson.
to Thomas
My
"
assure
that the
you
(forI well
mind
to
I consider
of the
one
in what
know
book.
I take
simply
an
much
think
work
you
will
only
very
to
me
belong
cost
so
so
much
taken
years.
The
due
to
to
our
old
the
more
my
hope
not
believe how
may
am
with
me
to
go
others
that
the
reflect,
to
from
round.
difficulties are,
I
not
respect anyone's
judge
may
do
demurring
your
much
not
Pray
me.
as
Each
you
more
underestimatingour
times
on
contented
perfectly
whether
he
not
or
subject,
is, if I
it has
; but
you
surpriseat
that
me
great
be
the
like to
much
subject,and
; I
life that
remarks
some
; therefore
fact,I should
which
stage of belief
and
least
; in
did
time
long
to
published
wrote
publications),
compliments
highest,
I should
and
slightlyagrees
very
who
on,
of your
a
solitary
so
sidering
it,con-
to
letter you
the very
I live
me
gratified
judgment
many
have
consider
fairly
ready acceptance
the
goes
paid
various
your
interest in the
deep
letter has
one
fully or
through
interest
egotistical
your
if any
what
remarkable
one
work.
tone
philosophical
received.
hear
often
not
the
letter ; I did
to my
have
you
highest,
perhaps
I have
which
I do
looked
have
and
me,
remember
attended
which
and
knowledge
your
had
you
attention
for your
warmly
you
that
not
seem
I thank
Sir,
DEAR
1861.
April 30,
Down,
find that
say,
they
ignorance.
I
weigh
l86l.]
difficulties
the
record, heavier
from
astonishment
my
have
If my
views
ever
will have
without
action
every
livingcreature.
does
rather
think
not
that
current
changed
of
conditions
selection
the
logical
geo-
My
effects
the direct
weigh
to
go
include
such
scale
so
of
on
life
mere
from
far
as
how
profoundlyglad
your
theoretical view
small
part
adaptations in
person'sbelief,what
(like Carpenter)
one
to
parent, and
one
least
of the
not
go
little
great division
same
important in
Divine
mere
to
any
extremely
an
At
great.
beautiful
respect
very
and
is that
surprise me
been
not
played
With
descended
have
farther and
in
Ramsay,
as
men
imperfectionof
the
action
numberless
willingto
be
on
the
have
can
producingall the
for
of
life have
of
conditions
this direct
may
good
find, to
I oscillate much
this
on
(so to speak) variability.
generallyreturn to my belief that the direct action
head, but
the
considerably modified.
selection,with
any
accidental
should
be
geological
men.
are
to
the
worker, Lyell, do
long-continued action
the
in
old
one
such
exaggerated
greatest trouble
of
joy, that
least
views
of
the younger
the
in
record.*
of
some
and
imperfection of
the
than
369
LIFE.
OF
CONDITIONS
I
on
opinion of
my
mockeries
that
am
some
I cannot
day
modification
the
all subjects)
you
and
express
will
publish
endurance
of
I will interpolate
long periods to
Sedgwick treated this
for
all
the
of
account
of
the
changes. I say,
Species
Origin
part
if
in reply, you deny my conclusion,
as
might have
differently,
very
his
vehement
from
been
grounded on positiveevidence,I
expected
in general. toss back
derived
your conclusion,
objectionto Evolution
of
from
the
inIn the article in the Spectator
negative evidence,
*
Professor
'
'
"
March
24,
flated cushion
which you try to
on
bolster up the defects of your hypothesis."
[The punctuation of the
the
know
Sedgwick wrote : "We
complicatedorganicphenomena of
Mesozoic
the
al(or Oolitic)period. imaginary dialogue is slightly
tered
from
the
transmutationist
at
defies
the
is
which
It
original,
every
ment,
VOL.
step.
says
Oh
Darwin, is
II.
the
! but
a
docu-
obscure
in
one
place.]
fragment ;
2
SPREAD
370
OF
Brachiopodous species;
contribution
blame
partlyto
told
Murray
have
written
With
am
it will be
sure
for
send
to
letter,but
egotistical
very
having pleased
of my
copy
edition
new
to
me,
dear
my
Davidson's
Monograph
British
on
published shortlyafterwards
by
results
anticipatedwere
as
less than
demonstrated
are
father
my
No
"
obtained.
the
had
father
Asa
Gray
made
"
in
publication,
the
Gray's three
of the 'Atlantic
numbers
Messrs.
publishedby
father
wrote,
kind, and
I
have
Messrs.
"
say
they
settled
The
'
Triibner
with
many
admirers
merits, and
my
and
lesseningopposition,
*
Professor
alreadybeen
The
been
whom
to
title "Natural
that
it
converts
they
Dr.
Selection
of
judging
of much
was
to
firstedition,
p. 428.
not
found
of its
value
Evolution.
will
Gray's
pamphlet
capable
most
making
The
and
republishedin
Theology."
was
my
liberal
most
charge for
October
pamphlet
articles
the
of Professor
pamphlet,
reference
have
has
periodicals."
believed
1861, my
with
own
those
among
of
advertisements, and
in their
Natural
father
long series
July,August, and
no
few
inconsistent
of
Triibner, with
reader
form
in the
shall make
one
early part
reference
species
type.'
one
Monthly,' i860.
about
insert
gratuitously
extent
received
correspondence
the
articles
the
which
subject to
on
of
Darwin.
some
the aid of
by
and
i860,
Sir,
Brachiopoda
to
commonly
Davidson
deal
good
and
Palaeontographical
Society,
appertain to
to
of
autumn
the
fifteen
Mr.
by
of transitional forms
In
you,
sincerely,
very
Ch.
such
I have
name.
your
cordial
Mr.
yourself
you
much.
so
me
Yours
[In
valuable
most
knowledge.
to
[1861.
EVOLUTION.
in
His
i36l]
gray's
dr.
high opinion of
pamphlet
it is shown
place in the
edition
value
others,recognised its
criticism
which
from
father wrote
my
of your
he
what
as
antidote
an
of
Gray
"
Just
"
thought of
in the
Asa
clearlythat
father did
the
review
in the
Gray
in the
of such
case
the
rejoiceover
not
Selection
contrary, he
the
on
that the
reference
with
"
is that
he
I say
seems
much
declines
wished
'
judge
Dr.
Natural
to
the
really
should
of Descent
Gray (May
1863),
1,
:
"
what
complain of
I have
....
sometimes
When
turning-point. Personally,of
Selection ; but that
unimportant,compared
the
to
C. Darwin
course,
to
seems
That
I
care
utterly
me
questionof Creation
to Asa
be
'
Man
now
Gray's,
specialview
stronglythat
doctrine
judge
mean
Natural
about
felt
out
comes
due
mainly
Lyell
that
the
me
be
to
me,' I only
to
is
Lyell's'Antiquity of
to
It
of his
Professor
to
speak of Lyellas
You
almost
he wrote
Thus
"
as
publications
success
use
asking Lyell
was
and
Quarterly,'
'
of
Thus
exemplify the
to
Atlantic'
of
suffered.
London
'
kind
the
to
Evolution
prominent
most
of
'
my
the
cause
Dr.
'
371
but by the
letters,
of it in
pamphlet,the Bishop
answered, Read
very
the
to
of
theory.
in his
only
not
specialnotice
third
descent
"
cation."]
Modifi-
or
Gray.
Down, April 11 [1861].
Gray,
My
DEAR
am
expecting mine,
It is
comes.
with
the
an
"
was
doubt
heard
which
I will send
Since
photographer
that it is
it has
how
done
it has
by
sold.
off
'
Origin
You
as
soon
writinglast,I
highestcommendation
the
photograph:
your
and
ugly affair,
glad to get
very
'
will have
of your
lie
had
I do not
not
review
2
it
Essay;
I have
good.
seen
not
have
thing written,and
much
as
yet
in the
SPREAD
372
Chronicle.
Gardeners
is
much,
what
is
Agassiz
Professor
him
never
have
can
of old
he
might pick
from
breed
and
them,
from
to win
hope
his
and
have
prize,and
He
seen
His
ones.
young
i?idividual
a
thought
writings.
everything. Tell
his worst
out
have
he would
animals,or
beats
for
understand
cannot
I should
dogs
owe
spoke, I think, of
man.
wise
and
I
thanks
Many
once
man
of
hereditariness
about
paper
much
whom
to
him.
You
at.
clever
very
seen
difference
that
is with
singularlyunobservant
the
as
Henslow,
Proceedings. I
driving
Bowen
dear
Hooker
of your
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
Poor
dying, and
of sheets
sets
two
OF
breeder
animals
and
he would
think
insane.
you
Henslow
[Professor
May
on
bronchitis,congestion of the
of
lingered for
he
his
that
knowing
fearless
Henslow'
weeks
end
(1862) is
and
near,
said
afterwards
he
visit to
had
tion
complica-
enlargement
in
painful condition
giving way,
of
looking at
weakness,
death
(Jenyns)
'
dignifiedand
Sedgwick's farewell
slow
was
Blomefield's
Prof.
that
in
was
Mr.
In
eyes.
lungs,and
strong constitution
His
of the heart.
and
died
with
Memoir
of
touching descriptionof
his
never
old
friend.
"a
seen
Sedgwick
human
beinsr
o
soul
whose
My
father wrote
death,
He
"
to
This
'
Hooker
(May
morning
I wrote
my
of poor
I do
so
not
my
hearingof
on
write
In reference
Memoir.'
J. D.
Sir
job, and
copied.
can
Hooker
J. D.
walked
character
the
Sir
to
never
fullybelieve a better man
his impressionsof Henslow's
gave
"
Blomefield's
wrote
heaven."
nearer
was
dear
have
as
used, I should
decently till I
remarks
may
appear
four
you
much
as
you
too
it in
and
the year
impressionsof
1830.
five pages,
use
all,of
like.
see
recollections he
"
or
will
like to
see
these
in Mr.
1861):
about
written
this earth."
character
recollections
Henslow
suppose
30,
to
Henslow's
If
more
I liked
being
now
course
you
than
as
proof-page,
can
tence
sennever
but
trifling,
thought it best
of
to
HENSLOW'S
l86l.]
give
think
you
DESIGN.
"
for you
arose,
373
Jenyns
or
to
use
as
fit.
will
You
"
they
thoughts as
my
DEATH
said when
that I have
see
I took
began,
exceeded
request, but, as
your
pleasurein writing
impression
my
character."]
of his admirable
C. Darwin
to Asa
Gray.
Down, June 5 [1861].
My
GRAY,
DEAR
been
slack
have
received
in
I have
heard
hence
fear
supply
the
'
but
it has
great ; I
been
I sent
design
been
say
caution
led
that I
designed
on
"
Selection
makes,
there
undesigned variability
to
appropriatefor
you
I remember
have
once
for
tellingyou
followed,but
reviewer.
the head
sending
By Jove, how
! You
Lyell does,
who
now
book
Phillips's
rank
thinks
it
your
; and
Life
on
the
studying,
field
enormous
selection
creature.
of
which
you
prove
Earth,' i860.
deity
my
from
as
Phillips.*
ought
you
are
hit the
higherthan
thus
It is not
me,
fearfullyretrograde.
might
you
yours
review
on
limited extent,
that you
often
and
in his
note
for natural
convinced
am
well
an
lot of trades
and
has
to
each
to
could
you
you.
rather
ready
me
he
seems
useful
purpose
any
much
is
say
Essay,
subject of late,and
seeing what
of
I thank
it
as
to
'
you
....
from
more
but
superfluous,
variation,and
hope
Origin.'
like
this
on
to differ
come
variation
lately,domestic
more
certain
much
"
think
to
wrote
Physical Geography
puts in
of the
J. Herschel,
agrees, to
Natural
to
Sir
to
copy
6th.
May
have
busy, so
extra
Triibner
from
not
of
note
your
ago
of his
rather
been
and
Originof Species,'
grieve to
"
long
more.
I have
that
answering
nothing
edition
new
I have
"
do,
I
born
nail
or
on
than
amused
applied to
that the duck
mestic
door
SPREAD
74
has
pigeon
varied
not
OF
because
the goose
ancientlydomesticated,and
why
I
it has
not
never
knew
North
the
America
seen
few, and
of
of
am
millions
crusade
not
do
soul
who
of
of
would
be
What
wonderful
show
noble
the greatest
Farewell.
curse
the
of
! how
horrid
to
seems
like to
should
abolished
absorbed
the
at
humanity.
Massachusetts
"
been
has
million
cause
slavery
"
Some
proclaim
would
in the
God
not
God, though
to
long-run, a
live in !
earth
on
have
North.
the
North
the
Great
Hooker
Henslow's
revered
wish
even
repaid
enthusiasm.
assigned
justice
;
with
is not
In
we
more
profoundly interesting.
so
lives,that
times
be
can
reason
England
them,
amply
not, though
has
varieties
many
against slavery.
deaths
see
one
good
no
newspapers
does
heard
or
loss
produced
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
with
dear
poor
Farewell.
affairs.
Ever
yours,
C. Darwin.
Hugh
Falconer
C. Darwin.
to
31 Sackville
My
brought
back
from
you
am
of the
of
have
your
go
The
to
care
Torquay,
to
dear
poor
anxious
In
to
your
it.
I lose
"
say
Pouter
or
in
time
for
views
and
your
admirable
essay
an
that
making
although
"
month
"
of
responsibility
delay into
and
have
some
type
Tumbler.
your
for
last
brother
it will thrive
got
returned
is still alive
animal
Columbidae
no
of sustenance
appreciablemeans
and
cave
anguinusidesigned
Continent,and hearingfrom
most
of
live Proteus
23, 1861.
Adelsberg
to
only
starving it longer.
fair chance
been
to
the offer.
no
me
moment
about
are
it has had
and
the
I have
"
would
and
night from
you
with
the
aquarium
you
DARWIN.
DEAR
St.,W., June
canvassed
"
north
heard
the views
of
l86l.]
the
"
of illustration,
and
conception,felicity
of
referred
always
And
of
just appreciation
the
heartilyin
of the
friends
warmest
your
among
in terms
to
rejoicedmore
truly,
very
Falconer.
Down
FALCONER.
DEAR
luck
by good
in
moment
valuable
start
soon
like to
take
in this
as
this
than
few
'have
the best
Kind
me
Torquay,
Society be
thanking
so
be
you
been
have
then
and
taking this
in
I shall
specimen.
precious letters.
truth
keep
note
would
repay
and
offering
your
to
hope Harvey
amongst
May
ago, from
two
The
15,
'
Dublin
1
86
1.
HospitalGazette,'
The
passage
; I
very
me.
gratefully,
ferred
re-
Darwin.
Crescent,Torquay,
July 13 [1861].
I infer he
which
more
jf.D. Hooker.
Hesketh
is better
note
quite touched
has
and
affectionately
C. Darwin
"day or
the Zoological
Ch.
thousand
not
trouble
I value
your
kindness
Your
Yours
...
and
certainlymuch
I should
extraordinary animal
tell the
specimen, to
the
place ?
your
aquarium
no
it would
that
Yet
it.
heartilyfor
you
I have
; but
not
trouble.
for your
you
for
I lose
see
would
many
and
note, and
your
properly,and
than
specimen
I should
pities that
you,
justreceived
I have
earlier
day
answering
offer of the
shall
"
did,
Falconer.
Hugh
to
than
Darwin
H.
C. Darwin
tion,
exposi-
admiration.
highest
Charles
Yours
My
grandeur
courageous
one
no
of
specialbias
the
to
the
but
speaker
375
HARVEY.
"
from, according
dissented
often
course
FALCONER
DR.
to
must
of
me
be convalescent
is at p. 150.
376
it's very
succession
not
then
expected
never
Noah's
see
man
Deluge
on
argue
did
God
as
have
to
to
man,
of other
races
funny
from
wholly destroy
destroythe
it is
of animals
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
fair ; but
and
good
the
OF
SPREAD
the
from
helping hand
Old
Testament.
.
C. Darwin
to C.
Lyell.
2, Hesketh
My
Lyell.
DEAR
duplicate of
of the
evidently a thoughtfulman,
have
This
I
have
it,as you
is
I do
Your
in London.
hope
miles
two
his enthusiasm.
many.
Pengellyf
Mr.
saw
as
'
have
you
finished.
You
generous,
and
not
out
the
Origin by
be
must
I have
honour
on
day,
least
have
Gray.
bright do
review
thank
to Asa
published
Hall.
The
July,1861.
'Zoologist,'
the
is
you
of Benthall
in the
of
back
written,
before
which
new
are
"
my
Must
edit, of
was
On
father's
be
you
are
time, but
much
edition
new
I will be
so
expect any
answer
to
"I
George Maw,
Mr.
feat.
pleased at
whether
lost you
not
grand
was
busy, if in London,
Gray.
copy
consulted
' "
Origin
wanting on many
"
words
more
September
for
sincerely
your
17
[1861?]
very
long
of August 27th
scientific,
and
political
interestingletter,
and
and
know
Down,
DEAR
is
your
C. Darwin
MY
like to
actuallywalked,
back, which
other
very
might
you
Maw,*
Mr.
ago
in the
nearlygot
days
'
thought
and
illness must
three
or
believe,good
I
so
two
you
review
good
I sent
"
Crescent, Torquay,
July 20 [1861].
the Devonshire
caves,
l86l.]
AMERICAN
29th, and
and
much
Sept.2nd
of what
in
S. ;
the N. has
noble
you
transferringyour
these
on
eyes, and
in
stop the
many
of
possible without
ought
slavery into
wonder
to
when
you
many
propositionswere
can
the
this
could
line, though I
well
studied
Your
poser.
was
saw
in
mind
of brass
organism
or
which
But
would
to
even
be
doubted.
the
how
war
the
to
old
this,all
of
whom
the whole
to
see
of this.
and
at
of my
It is out
news,
Federal
feelingswere
your
of
my
adjoining States
man
convince
down
angel come
an
design.
in
was
iron
had
If I could
an
formerly
and
ever
this is childish
no
be
way
teach
that
us
Design
good,
way
convinced.
connected
lived, I should
writing.
is
and
mad, I
not
was
be convinced
unknown
should
of
me
to
seeing him
others
imponderable force,
made
word
follow
; if that
enough
the
that
enough
every
what
from
believe
But
But
extended
in
Olmsted
convinced
should
be
be
nothing
have
of
good
every
land
Eng-
England's coldness,
and
persuaded
read
question
If I
be
them.
to
common
of
would
should
at
latitude.
doubting
great gain
to
Massachusetts
sympathy
ton.
Washing-
does
Territories
of
brighter in
commencement
made
line of
sympathy
we
the
much
so
the
at
is that
full
States,if
all
old
the
say
have
and
recollect
with
state
will look
be
right
has
cotton
in
are
it may
If abolition
world
South, and
causes
What
are
conquer
in
alone
England
abolition, which
not
men
wrong
you.
It would
eyes.
spread
are
doubts.
whole
can
in the
the
(3) which
with
our
N.
friends
with
English
we
the
we
in S.
I agree
Massachusetts
God
to
not, but
the
victory,
your
You
hope
with
do
to
of
It is number
I know
whatever
God
to
many
men
enthusiastic
be
to
Lancashire
with
points.
not
hope
377
morning.
to
good feelings
own
I say
Again
this
doubting (1)whether
(2)whether
(3) whether
DESIGN.
"
received
say, and
you
utterly wrong
the
WAR
thoroughly
function
If
with
of other
man
any
perhaps
be
was
other
vinced.
con-
.378
latelybeen
I have
If not,
say.
differences
think
it is
that
been
(as I
But
have
does
for the
said
that
foreseen
must
being, have
in the
of
sort
same
be
to
seems
everythingsupposed
to
pre-ordained.
or
with
Gray,
dear
Farewell, my
pigeons, I
before)as
to
by selecting
of any
am
of
shape
variations,which
the
good
led
nothing more
of
that
the
done
bones
suppose
I know
that
I have
nasal
think,
he will hereafter
he says
have
been
having
believes
been
have
in the
preserves
designed.
in with
he
Fanciers
to
illogical
selection
muddle
what
seeing
individual
natural
(and
answer
was
nose
him
me) whether
designed. If he
reflect and
my
of variation
stream
asked
I have
designed.
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
correspondingwith Lyell,who,
of the
idea
adopts your
or
OF
SPREAD
thanks
many
for
your
interestingletter.
unmerciful
Your
correspondent,
C. Darwin.
C. Darzvin
W.
to H.
Bates.
Down,
My
Sir.
DEAR
I thank
"
for your
you
valuable
shall
again
this part of my
judge
course
seemed
yours
view
me
very
most
months
some
solelybe
you
have
could
to
quite convinced
am
as
stylewhen
its value
estimate
I
of
to
On
driven
into
have
done.
solved
one
be
given
Mimetic
clear and
(Hooker
of
to
the
solve.
read
Butterflies,
Soc,
Nov.
21,
am
generalpoint of view,
took
Huxley
the
same
of nature
can
by treatingspecialsubjects
think
perplexing problems
most
that
me
specialpoint of view, I
of
paper,*but
philosophicview
naturalists
Under
cannot
Believe
good.
and
[1861].
when
subject. One
highly. Under
ago) that
knows
merely hears
one
extremely interesting
letter,and
come
Dec.
glad
1861.
it when
to
For
hear
my
from
father's
published,see
you
which
Hooker
opinion of
p. 391.
86
1.]
that
MR.
drawings.
Do
that
they
are
of
the
at
fact
habits,final
be
would
but
the
not
sort
far
"c,
"c.
causes,
that
remarks
the
do
of
dose
curious
than
more
to
blunts
to
damp
long thought
have
new
due
understand
[and] descriptionsomehow
with
generalisation,
reasoning, or
travels ; I
can
Museum
of men,
set
In
thought.
British
good
work.
The
faculties.
on
may
systematic work
much
the
of views
great originality
very
appreciate your
too
your
reception
your
you
during
self-exertion
necessityof
the
of advice
of want
part of your
say
get
can
you
complain
not
dare
give plates if
will
Society
Linnean
the
379
BATES.
regular
naturalists.
I
extremely glad
am
travels
am
render
I do
two.
power
after
I shall be
find
it
to
the
and
room
explain
and
once
about.
I have
times, and
judges
me
and
fancy
what
to
Mrs.
to
But
style to
think
I have
is
me
then
what
to
see
read
; yet
great difficulty
I say
succeeded, and
and
into
this to
at
try
all
it is
paragraph to myself
Darwin, till I
difficult
comes
; and
person
with
sentence.
every
one
doing
my
myself
get
some
It
go.
one
like
cannot
that
born
or
this
correct
are
slowly at
imaginary
this for
done
I cannot
to
chapter
style,for
Some
your
truly glad
correct
to
am
begun
first
your
; others
Wallace
to
the
to
sometimes
subjectought
aloud.
asks
be
in type.
hard
very
please me,
discussion
I shall
I find
very
have
able
repeated trials
labour
to
but
you
by reading
can
Lyell have
I
think
not
that
reason,
own
aid which
any
busy,
very
...
that
hear
to
several
how
one's
some
the
MS.
good
encourage
you.
What
had
better
medias
any
/ think
be
res,"and
do
can
shortened.
work
will be
It is
may
tell you
good,
in later any
to
be
whether
think, to
dash
parts
"in
of country,
descriptions
necessary.
Murray
or
likes
380
OF
SPREAD
of
lots
wood-cuts
give
"
differences
if so,
tame?
about
hardly read
trouble
have
he
Have
sexual
that
will
you
without
I cannot
them
kept
you
I fear
expression.
candid
my
much
poor
likes
MS.,
heavier.
am
that
now
it.
opinion
from
judge
to
seem
Journal very
know,
monkeys
The
ants.
What
cousins.
poor
but
hand-writing,
it is hard
heavy parts
my
our
"
of
means
killing,
better.
shall
remember
in
their
vile
my
write
You
there
are
all
by
some
public appreciatemonkeys
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
sure
on
slowly,and
reads
one
first-ratejudge
it is in
you
MS., but
your
thought
print,I happen
will understand
why
Wallace's
to
am
egotistical.
so
was
Amazon
book
there
facts
will
you
glad
admirably good
in every
man
followed
by
As
"
to
necessary
strike
much
too
pains
Bates's
struck
be
than
'Travels
The
the
letter to Sir
J. D.
is
an
give
me
which
left in
in
plan
Voyage
quite
not
interest
stranger
accordingly. I
followingletter
'
bit of
is not
could
think
the
making
Naturalist
the
you
which
the
on
parently
styletransdogs."
Amazons,'
given here
be
may
was
position: ]
chronological
the Amazon
'
of
Naturalist's
the
'
and
Negro,'1853.
f Probably the Naturalist's
journ in Jamaica/ 185 1.
In
idea
in
book,
he
Bates
myself, Would
taken
Rio
or
Mr.
the
in its due
on
Hooker,J
throwing eloquence to
Heaven
scribbling.
an
word
every
out
'
let
subject,and
cannot
clear and
Mr.
out
constantlyasked
care
writinghis
current
stranger.
with
giving
interestingas
the
Gosse's
in
taste.
my
letter to
hackneyed author,
to
hand,
the.
on
sense.
from
father in
my
old
an
advice, viz.
is
subject
to
pleasantday
[The followingextract
same
other
all this
read
to
care
book
had
you
On
enough.
reasoning enough
is not
whether
am
disappointedin
hardly
knows
I
little
(Dec. 1861),my
am
So-
Hooker
glad
very
Bates.
been
power
to
I have
more
father
hear
of mind."
"I
you like
life
in my
man's
with
a
seldom
struck
wrote:
that
BATES'S
l86l.]
BOOK
AMERICAN
"
C. Darwin
to H.
38 1
WAR.
W.
Bates.
Down,
Dear
be
Bates,
condensed
best
be
into
work
Your
better
and
the
quickly,it will
and
boldness
How
than
You
the
have
tasteful.
The
whether
not
and
spoken
rather
get
The
about
it to
it sells
its
on
Species ;
rarer.
back
the
on
you
is
publication.
always is,and
leading
your
send
can
can
Forest
and
rarer
cut
it
cold, as
or
boldly on
out
to
it is.
highest degree
the Reader
seen
the
subject seems
was
Nothing
description of
heartilycongratulate you
Athencenm\
in the
you
published in
ever
strugglefor existence,
the
the
may
it is the
that
admirable.
on
beautifullyillustrated
most
criticisms
My
Travels
me
grand book,
last.
on
to
discussion
better
It is
scenery.*
History
style seems
than
nothing
finished vol. i.
Natural
of
England.
I have
"
facts.
lent
insoHave
if you
have
Dec.
[1861].
not
it.
seen
to Asa
C. Darwin
Gray.
Down,
My
Gray,
DEAR
valuable
last most
this
receive
we
hate
patriots,to
very
just
like two
the
of
doubt
In
wrote
a
:
angry
"
at
war,
shall
How
and
sillymen,
if the
fight,
!
two
it is to
taking
Southern
He
the
best
and
capital,
Natural
History
it is
two
you
good
as
and
'
he
countries,
two
view
opposite a
so
is
rogues
shadow
no
not
are
of
given
publishedin England.
about
is bold
Species, "c,
the
Athenesum
coolly says
He
bound,
see
there
fear
Travels
Lyell my father
[i.e.Mr. Bates] is
Book
be
two
we
letter to
in deonly to Humboldt
forest."
scribing a tropical
the first volume
have
read
t "I
I think
and
for your
it is that when
thing
curious
second
of Bates's
thanks
transaction
same
we
be
each
work.
hard
you
What
notes.
may
cordial
and
Many
"
11
ever
bends
his
pose.;' (From
Hooker.)
"
facts
a
'
for
letter
to
this purSir
J. D.
382
SPREAD
what
And
up.*
side of
; but
cotton
in
motive
fullybelieve
nothing
have
Again, how
would
; and
I do
retain it.
and
and
the
by
about
way,
though
affairs,
a
With
ask you
try and
one's
If
so
yet I
If I
believe
the
Trinity
am
in thick
mud
abominable
My
dear
Gray,
usual
people in
to
was
in
Unity.
yet
You
of American
write
longitude!
on
show
to
I like to
the
return
you
fair way
keep
deal
Yours
of
most
of"
be
must
false
this,I
the
as
say
I cannot
a
I see,
might
it is
manner
orthodox
written
I have
when
of
Boott,
cheerful.
I believed
; the
mud
Dr.
on
guide) tells
rudimentarymammae
say
it
war
writing
use
inclined
whether
incredible
same
no
day
more
(though a
your
Ministers
classes,
designed, certainlyman
"
to
go
long-rangeshot.
that man's
admit
it in the
; I
is
consciousness
cannot
I feel
who
is,to conquer
heart.f Buckle
great doubts
believe
haze
in
can
those
do
we
other
puzzlingquestion,but
designed.
were
all
by
that you
English opinion
Design,
to
anything
inner
"
if
sure
the
an
fire my
to
I have
compliment
arguing.
of
mass
quite
respect
flag than
white
the
dependent
opinion being entirely
chapter on
.
find him
American
an
that
show, and it is
I called
it.
responsibility.
soul,even
"
I feel
will
possible
reluctance
takes
he
meet
into the
viduals
private indi-
think
to
the
we
awful
so
seem
it
entered
not
Heaven,
with
suppose
it,but
pleased to
was
this has
never
all. Time
and
thinking
fightto get
thinks
or
we
do
not
to
it,who
wish
most
fighton
it is that you
curious
the South
conquer
we
Well, thank
least.
the
be if
thing it will
doubt
No
[l86l.
EVOLUTION.
wretched
slavery.
OF
that
you
would
out
one
should
orthodox
are
in
say
of the
in
fetid,
question.
nonsense.
cordially,
C. Darwin.
The
sioners
Confederate
Slidell and
forciblyremoved
a
West
India
from
mail
CommisMason
the
were
Trent,
steamer,
The
that the
news
8, 1861.
U.S. agreed to release them reached
England on Jan. 8, 1862.
f Dr. Boott was born in the U.S..
Nov.
on
862.]
383;
BOURNEMOUTH.
1862.
[Owing
he
took
Dr.
to
and
my
had
it
has
till
we
patient
wrote
"
; with
school
with
and
mouth,
Bourne-
to
scarlet
fever,
recovering well.
world.
weary
exterminated.
I shall
when
that
There,
feel safe
not
will be
I know
complaining."
postage
this
to
the
scarlet
deed
my
to
stamps
good-natured
is
many
coloured
but
and
"
fever
father
the
same
the
origin
Germany.
England."]
the
sort
of
letters
the
of
wave
letters
one
plants
Had
or
by
Therefore
the
but
and
law
would
Your
last
and
of
he
calculated
boy
in
letter
the
was.
long surveyed-
1862
of
which
animals
translate
subject
the
odd
letters
in
doctor,
January
ardent
an
deeper.
spirality.
of
was.
the
published
the
the
on
arrived
much
on
with
Evolution
bearing
himself
goes
deal
to
homoeopathic
'Origin.'
of
other
example
an
German
book,
no
conversion
and
As
has
man
quiet satisfaction."
mentioned
from
year
of
of
reviews
be
may
stamps,
much
numbers.
in
admirer
the
which
triumph.
with
little
; my
stamps
Here
spreading,
this
number
work,
received
stamps
have
greater
came
to
in bed
envelope
Orchid
of
is
"
journey
sickened
together,
send
to
now
has.
The
he
home
just recur
plaistered with
still
in this
regard
will
he
that
still
wife
wrote
be
to
his
on
He
1862)
21,
boys,
"
I must
the
boy
his
of
one
autumn.
ought
used
Gray
and
of
the
(Aug.
poor
dear
it is foolish
But
Dr.
our
poor
all at
are
not.
rest
fever
in
family,
of trouble
end
no
to
and
scarlet
Southampton
wretched
are
from
Bournemouth
at
from
Gray
slept here
We
is
house
"We
illness
the
to
nearly
Explains
principles
Book
it and
fell
of
dead
publish
moeopathy
hoin
it in
3"4
SPREAD
OF
C. Darwin
[1862
EVOLUTION.
T. H.
to
Huxley.
Down, [Jan.?]14 [1862].
My
the
HUXLEY,
DEAR
attacked
have
have
would
between
that
I
.
Lectures.
off
must
excellent
You
right that
Mrs.
Huxley
the
is
it
of
sterile together. It
being partially
have
(as
to-day)
how
insisting
head, and
sterile
offspring.Do
Primula
my
suspect that
as
acquired
an
had
had
to
Botanists
'
the
Linn.
have
facts to maintain
in the
'
"
view
Origin.'
f
C. Darwin
to
utterly
produce
latter half of
to
me
largelyviewed
which
this
on
it leads
be
to
the
read
to
me
the
ment
argu-
Nicotiana
make
Journal,'for
hereafter
No
to
varieties
by reading
selected character
or
allude
and
frequentlycrossed
will
sterility
in the
never
is curious
which
oblige me
in
paper
pretty well.
is
distinction
the
pooh-poohing
the
heartilyglad
am
of Verbascum
varieties
medium
Hybrid question.
you
"
you
will
you
due
great hiatus
overrate
you
evidence
here
kept
I
on
thought
that
caution.
hope
glad
have
to
and
slip. By Jove
stronghold.
so
in
success
your
and
note
am
seem
word
one
yet I think
well.
so
say
are
you
in its
boldness
doubt
for your
you
mobbed.
extreme
all went
heartilyglad of
am
Bigotry
been
publishyour
thank
North,* and
you
"
I wish
J. D. Hooker.
Down, Jan. 25 [1862].
MY
HOOKER,
DEAR
which
letter,
life.
We
again.
*
This
was
to
it best
two
Huxley's lectures,given
PhilosophicalInstitution
burgh
them
in
is
1862.
given
The
in
'
of
of
the
Edin-
substance
Man's
to
Mr.
before
Place
thanks
for your
pleasantestI
pretty well
thought
refers
of the
one
all
are
Many
"
of
in
last
received
ever
redivivus,and
make
breast
Sunday's
clean
am
in my
work
at
to
Asa
Nature.'
The
discussed
view
here
in the
styledplants,
given
chapter on
will
be
hetero-
862.]
told
; and
Gray
quiteturned
splitup
making
selected
is
sometimes
have
best
opposed
dreadfully
stock !
On
the
raised
good
each
by
hand,
the
peerage,
to
beautiful and
a
good
what
being
ken-
lot
'
the
farmer
as
and
out
women
deal of indirect
get crossed
are
men
selection
the
tinually
con-
most
ranks ;
lower
of the
his
the older
with
continuallyselect
Lords
charming
begetter of
the
say, ablest
you
bull
first-born
the
selection ; suppose
to
other
Lord-breeds, and
that
of
men
necessarilymade
was
Aristocrat
of the
difficulties
I wonder
fearful.
separationwere
notion
the
'
new
in fact
you
that
the
speckle,and
were
Your
he will say
States
United
if the
be
it would
thought
being triumphant,and
line of
Boston
world
of the
the other
on
the
that
peace
slave-holders
the
of
him
35
TORYISM.
my
for the
good
AND
EVOLUTION
so
Lords.
improves the
has a
row
CertainlyI agree with you the present American
all. I am
us
very Torifyinginfluence on
very glad to hear
are
beginning to print the Genera ;'it is a wonderful
you
satisfaction to be thus brought to bed, indeed it is one's chief
I think,though one
knows
that another bantling
satisfaction,
'
will
be
soon
developing.
.
C. Darwin
to Maxwell
Masters.]
[1862].
Down, Feb. 26
My
*
as
and
DEAR
similar
indignantover
appear
would
am
much
from
primogeniture,
often
spiritwas
to
time.
He
that if
energetically
will should be
he were
no
law-giver
valid that was
not
publishedin the
VOL.
declare
II.
obligedto
for
you
of
injustice
the
in
"
father had
My
to
Sir,
maintained
sending
and
me
this
he
would
of
prevent much
and meanness
injustice
the monstrous
apparent
in
so
many
wills.
is a well-known
f Dr. Masters
and has been
vegetableteratologist,
for many
Gardeners'
years
the
editor of the
Chronicle.
2
""
86
SPREAD
which
article,*
your
History,and
to
seems
I have
reallyought
to
write
generously of
my
book
pleased me
not
remarked
when
what
on
I wrote
sending me
but
little ; for
and
With
dear
My
speak
too
have
that you
as
know, has
thanks
many
believe
article,
pray
far
as
You
ever
"
it,pleased me,
your
It
me.
a
classification,
part, which
on
say
You
confess
one,
to
The
clearlywritten.
so
I must
no
interest.
quitenew
larger work.
your
;
much
with
besides,was
capitallydone,
me
[1862
EVOLUTION.
justread
deal
good
OF
for
to you
me,
sincerely,
Sir,yours
C. Darwin.
[In
the
second
this year
spring of
volume
of
Buckle's
(1862)
of
'History
father read
my
Civilization.'
it may
the
The
be worth
quoting :
"
"
Have
read
you
greatly;
me
but
wrong,
is
noble
that
do
not
I should
whether
care
think
he
is the very
let the
lived,
ever
truth
and
other be who
iv
? it has interested
his views
much
they contained
best writer
C. Dar
volume
second
love of advancement
taste
my
Buckle's
truth.
throughout;
Gray,
DEAR
"
he
in to Asa
Thanks
There
and
to
of the
English language
may."]
Gray.
Down, March
My
rightor
are
15
[1862].
(though they
did
contain
Scotland
but I do
*
to
were
think
not
paper
phology," by
We
South.
hating the
on
Dr.
enter
cannot
rebel,I presume
we
should
"Vegetable
Masters,
Mor-
in the
care
we
a
into
your
should
penny
'British and
feelings;
be very
what
other
wrath,
nations
Foreign Medico-Chi-
rurgicalReview
'
for 1862.
if
362.]
SPREAD
millennium
The
thought.
OF
other
; but
try and
do
as
poor
blinded
fool.
I thank
done
seems
to
French
though
is Mr.
if you
will
of affairs
state
myself;
his
read
will be very
in
edition
who
Travels
of
taken
in
Selection
is called
has
that you
England
One
and
best
from
these
MS.
men,
views,
Amazonia,' when
good, judging
on
for, and
the
up
believing
and
Natural
turn.
just appeared.
great good
think
true, I must
German
'
book
my
little progress
new
; pray
they
for
good
present unknown,
Bates
of me,
dreadful
done
heart
my
science
has
one
at
appear
has
large part
making
Continent
the
in
arc
natural
be
love each
nations
Think
me.
I fear the
from
you
hate
pamphlet
before
come
interest in Science
dull your
must
must
not
337
EVOLUTION.
they
of the first
chapters.
two
I say, do
Again
"
"
hate
not
me.
Ever
truly,
most
yours
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
C.
to
Lyell.
Terrace, Southampton,!
Carlton
Aug.
You
.
his
in
*
to
In
Dr.
days
'
the
Gray
a
ago,
and
oddest
be
I received,
one
Madlle.
of the
in
women
and
and
declares
the
Royer,
Europe
hates
that
She
is
tianity,
Chrisnatural
struggle for
"c!
3
of
cleverest
for
life
of
makes
and
on
that
and
good hits,
publisha book
subjects." Madlle. Royer
shall
foot-notes
in many
to
her
placeswhere
translation,
the author
expresses
explains
or
difficulty,
pointsout
exists.
real difficulty
that
the
f The
on
Owen
idea
new
curious
she
says
these
and
as
down
that
assured
very
added
in October.
out
will be
Owen
was
some
or
translation
Deist, and
ardent
selection
man,
French
Origin,' by
must
will
"
can,
father wrote
June, 1862, my
and
spring advanced
this
Lectures
who
an
hardly
latter
; the
" will be
you
Bishop
the
that
say
you
that
heartilyhope
I
....
[1862].
22
house
'
I.e. The
of his
son
William.
of
Antiquity
Man.'
no
388
SPREAD
wingless birds
stole
magpies
like
that
of
the
Your
the
naturalists
than
I considered
I do
feel
have
this
it
pretty
not
of any
to
seem
at
has
in the
the
be
to
all
than
Placental
almost
show
to
the
that
I must
own
result.
any
to make
foundation
change
a
of
all
that
so
it does
which
group
at
any
varies less,
should
periods)
modification
more
variable.
be at each
nevertheless
development
and
differentiation
certainlyis
attempted
undergone
animals,e.g. might
organisms
generallymore
Marsupials,and
than
incompatiblethat
is
which
group
low
say
contrary opinion,as
necessary
have
difficult
the result.
of selected
of time
long course
that
tabulated
remember
cannot
....
very
this way
not
he
I only
Origin,'
'
Hooker's
that
one
me,
think
one
the
home, I think
at
amount
me
this
even
variability,
though
allow
to
statement
he
modifications,I believe
to
from
seems
playing-
told
an
that
but
point out,
Mere
put the
materials
some
and
all trust
sure
it
its
am
descended
generallyconsider
only
at
not
Indeed,
that
instinct
some
ornaments
[that]in
see
high ;
general opinion.
to
of
remnant
are
as
on,
glad
am
more
vary
"c., from
touches
also
wings by disuse,
pretty feathers.
P.S.
points. I
their
all birds
[1862.
EVOLUTION.
Bower-Bird, which
plainlythat
hinted
that
lost
spoons,
with
passage
that
had
OF
periodless
have
than
variable
undergone
more
marsupials,owing
to
some
but
surprised,
am
Hooker's
statement
limited.
It
Looking
to
of the
the
sea
the
'
to believe
that
opinion at
and
3rd edition),
that
organisms
reason
scale
change quickerthan
those
after
that
I state
339,
some
sentences
an
are
best
statement.
see
to
seem
(ChapterX., p.
writing these
bold
Origin,'I
land
form
to
me
pretend
not
that
to
seems
do
that
much
I add
considered
are
low.
the
ductions
pro-
those
of
there
is
high
in the
I remember
deliberation
862.]
FALCONER
remember
the
related
feelingmuch
well
guarded
of
of
formation, and
I did.
My
Foraminifera
putting in
even
doubts, I remember,
of the Radiata
change
the
389
SPECIES.
hesitation about
which
sentences
the rate
to
ON
in the
Secondary
oldest Tertiary
the
in
beds
Good
night,
C. Darwin.
C. Darwin
to C.
Lyell.
Oct.
Down,
I found
....
with
be
some
attack
pointing out
that
he treats
other
they
"c."
This
is
modified
therefore
He
I do
adds
not
that
he
does
quite see
the
that
overlooks
Selection
is
On
his
letters
return
be
most
Sir
to
from
f Falconer,
Fossil
"
On
Elephant,"in
American
the
the
'
Nat.
The
fixed
Hist.
words
clearer.
The
follows
"
draw
and
from
he
rently
appa-
Natural
that variability
laws
the
about
J. D. Hooker,
mouth.
failingone,
and
variability,
complex
Bourne-
Falconer
again that
over
one
Selection suffices.
Natural
and
seems
races.
new
of his argument,
over
their
soon
immutability.
giving off
force
faith
earlier progenitors,
be
being
by
no
view
of
will not
group
think
not
I say
subjectto the
[In his
in
nothing without
do
can
descendants
believes
likelyto
not
I have
rational
most
allow
not
him
ends
elephants made
capital.There
who
good palaeontologist
and
extinct
The
the
are
"with
will
ing
crush-
and
good
he
great satisfaction,
loophole,and adds,t
and
which
long persistence
on
make
to
of Falconer,
note
Elephant Memoir,'
going
was
kind
very
admirably
suddenly
be that
does
'
but, to my
me,
a
appearance
to
which
mammoth
the
of his
thought he
on
short and
pages
published,in
of type.
here
[1862].
The
end
of
this
begins
passage
which
inferences
these
facts
of the
posed to one
of Darwin's
positions
him," "c. (Sec.
are
not
as
op-
SPREAD
390
occasional
are
year,
of Animals
"
work
of
is
notes
know
leading me
am
glory of
Natural
doubtful.
Perhaps
I shall
present
in the action
it
regret it,because
is
confoundedly
so
he wrote
my
direct
more
Selection,and
point of view,
one
but
little sorry,
I presume
lessens the
24th
November
rather
'Variation
of the
progress
on
a
believe
to
physical conditions.
facts under
the
Thus
why
[1862.
EVOLUTION.
on
Plants.'
and
hardly
OF
get all my
this
job
pretty hard
will be."
Again,
think
December
on
of
such
how
begin and
to
things,and
end, and
to
to
to
Inheritance,
on
fairlyparalysed
am
what
begun
have
To-day
concluding chapters
arranging my
and
Reversion,Selection,
how
"
22nd,
do, with
huge
my
pilesof materials."]
to Asa
C. Darwin
Gray.
My
Gray,
DEAR
book,*
same
of October
note
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and
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you
to
but the
quiteagree that it is extremely interesting,
the least
latter part about the firstorigin of language much
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problem.
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read it.
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book.
edit. 1861.
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close
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me,
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Schleicher, whose
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in the
862.]
keep
their
BOOKS
lot of the
book
has
391
most
of communication
means
MIMICRY.
"
!
here
justappeared
will,I
which
smashes
the
in
of
middle
hurt
it not
confoundedly?
her
pretty pictureof
one
much
that is
between
more
not
book
than ours,
gorgeous
'
BATES,
to
H.
of
criticallyexamined,'
six
parts, 1862-71.
refers
This
"
Contributions
Fauna
of
('Linn.
Soc.
the
which
mimicry
wrote
'Natural
to
founded.
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father
of it in the
almost
of which
occur
p. 219, parts
of
in the later editions
verbatim
the
'
Species.'A
Origin of
showing
occurs
passage
of the case
pointof view
from
:
"
of the
Nov.
[1862].
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"
what
By
asked,
remarkable
most
so
many
Amazonian
their
deceptivedress
creation
generallybe
it
can
be
expense
to
met
of
all further
Most
far
ties
the difficul-
creationist's
of
forms
a
will
triumphant that
only by long-drawn
it is made
putting
inquiry. In
for many
were
of their
which
of
Leptaliscan
graduated series
at
the
effectual bar
an
case, moreover,
will meet
with
striking
alists
natur-
they
the hour
answer
so
; but
arguments
that
from
an
"
be
may
region acquired
answer
clothed
and
butterflies of
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thus
it
means,
have
will
':
My
review
short
sooner,
IV. Bates.
Insect
Valley
xxiii.,
1862),in
familiar
now
an
Amazons
Trans.'
was
Bates's
Mr.
to
paper,
the
on
Book
and
Pentateuch
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Joshua
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"
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In my
autumn,
your
comes
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paper,
extremely
comfort
one
C. Darwin
Dear
honest,
more
see
so
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for your
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givesan
villages
; but
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will stick
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of weeds.
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that
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whether
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and
our
pride
Mrs.
sure
am
sort
so
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your
downright good
and
battle
Ask
weeds.
though
the
am
Naturalist.'
clever woman,
very
it is very
though
me,
Cooper's 'Journal of
a
extracts,
Talking of books,
pleases
seems
of
capitalaccount
own
which
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She
is she ?
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Testament.
innocent
Who
of the Old
most
make
suppose,
study
this ticular
parthe creationist
culties
specialdiffithe mimicking
be
to
shown
be
by
merely
admirable
papers
are
analogous facts.
well
very
chosen
each
; but
into
engraver
I
plate.
much
whole
of it.
wonderful
the
nearlyso
paper
; but
clearlybefore
I
of facts
body
doubt
similar
here
seems
miscellaneous
varieties of
one
have
of the
had
varieties ;
wanted.
reallymore,
not
the
rather
there
creation
numerous
laws
of variation
indeed,would
as
"
of
littlemore
more
are
or
process
Then, again,what
observations
will
segregation of
the
enlarged
solved
and
conceived
never
cious
pre-
sure
on
people this
not
am
the
over
made
are
of curious
mickers
one
passed
most
variation,and
below
sumed
having con-
paper
I
put the
have
clearlystated
with
part. I
not
engraved
I should
most
No
valuable, a
pairingof
the
on
semi-completespecies,is
forms.
new
such
rejoicedthat
have
reasonings on
as
been
seem
reader
the
of
host
for
Origin,'
You
of the
complete and
least
'
saved
this would
have
am
problem.
cream
facts and
at
the
subjectin
doubt
cases
beautiful,and
are
had
each
mimetic
a
excellently
have
surprised at
time.
mess
be
at all
not
No
it would
as
fits,
am
of
name
The
life.
connect
you
it would
figure.
separate
in my
illustrations
The
read
ever
[1862.
EVOLUTION.
OF
SPREAD
392
host
related
on
Prof.
Agassiz,
nothing of this
think
difficulty
; for he believes that not
of the mimicked
only each speciesand each variety,
of
that
but
forms
be shown
to be merely
can
individuals,
groups
number
the
when
varieties ; but the greater
though identically
same,
distinct
distinct
ranked
be
as
must
species. inhabiting
countries,have
all separatelycreated
been
in due
the creationist will have
to
Hence
distinct
species,or even
So again, some
that
admit
have
of
their
under
some
as
look at
he must
created
he
means
laws
others
we
separately
present guise;
to
admit
been
created
of forms
not
themselves
see
them,
proportionalnumbers
of
that
in imitation
but due
created
to the
land.
each
will
be
have
made,
turns
been
many
thus
content
turned
almost
out
temporary
as
toys
demand
the wants
to
Not
as
have
now
forms
these
imitators,by
of variation,whilst
become
the
of
some
genera.
out
a
alists
naturto
lieve
be-
individuals
all
ready
manufacturer
according to
the
of the market."
862.]
sexual
mimicry.
live,be
small
escape
to
treasure
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with
individual
and
respect
will
: these
variability
resemblance
mimetic
to
they
day,
some
if I
me.
insects,do you
size ;
393
think
not
themselves
at least,from
by flight,
so
common
be connected
it may
defend
cannot
being
with
they
birds, therefore
their
cannot
they
escape
by trickeryand deception?
I have
serious
one
prominent attention
paper
is too
good
You
great work.
and
lately,
is your
book
be
souls ;
ought
but, rely on
is
light labour,
no
but
Believe
my
me,
Yours
book
your
on
very
I have
health
dear
is very
OF
VOL.
your
Keep
been
first
will
your
better
indifferent.
Bates,
sincerely,
C.
END
have
the mob
gets
on
to
the
resemblances.
largelyappreciatedby
How
working hard,
health
that you
in it to the mimetic
fully appreciateit.
spirits
up.
that is about
cordiallycongratulateyou
lastingvalue,and
to
make, and
but think
; I cannot
of naturalists without
How
criticism to
Darwin.
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