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give up the idea that each flash was caused by the direct 

 hand of God. 



Farewell, I am feeling very unwell to-day, so no more. 



Yours very truly, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to John Ltibbock. 



Ilkley, Yorkshire, 

 Tuesday [November 15th, 1859]. 



My DEAR LUBBOCK, I beg pardon for troubling you 

 again. I do not know how I blundered in expressing myself 

 in making you believe that we accepted your kind invitation 

 to Brighton. I meant merely to thank you sincerely for 

 wishing to see such a worn-out old dog as myself. I hardly 

 know when we leave this place, not under a fortnight, and 

 then we shall wish to rest under our own roof-tree. 



I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than 

 Paley's ' Natural Theology.' I could almost formerly have 

 said it by heart. 



I am glad you have got my book, but I fear that you value 

 it far too highly. I should be grateful for any criticisms. I 

 care not for Reviews ; but for the opinion of men like you 

 and Hooker and Huxley and Lyell, &c. 



Farewell, with our joint thanks to Mrs. Lubbock and 



yourself. Adios. 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to L. Jenyns* 



Ilkley, Yorkshire. 

 November 13th, 1859. 



My DEAR JENYNS, I must thank you for your very kind 



note forwarded to me from Down. I have been much out 



of health this summer, and have been hydropathising here for 



the last six weeks with very little good as yet. I shall stay 



* Now Rev. L. Blomefield. 



