i860.] dr. gray's pamphlet. 355 



gives me confidence, viz. that some who went half an inch 



with me now go further, and some who were bitterly opposed 



are now less bitterly opposed. And this makes me feel a 



little disappointed that you are not inclined to think the 



general view in some slight degree more probable than you 



did at first. This I consider rather ominous. Otherwise I 



should be more contented with your degree of belief. I can 



pretty plainly see that, if my view is ever to be generally 



adopted, it will be by young men growing up and replacing 



the old workers, and then young ones finding that they can 



group facts and search out new lines of investigation better 



on the notion of descent, than on that of creation. But 



forgive me for running on so egotistically. Living so solitary 



as I do, one gets to think in a silly manner of one's own 



work. 



Ever yours very sincerely, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker 



Down, December nth [i36o]. 



I heard from A. Gray this morning ; at my sug- 

 gestion he is going to reprint the three ' Atlantic ' articles as a 

 pamphlet, and send 250 copies to England, for which I intend 

 to pay half the cost of the whole edition, and shall give away, 

 and try to sell by getting a few advertisements put in, and if 

 possible notices in Periodicals. 



David Forbes has been carefully working the 



Geology of Chile, and as I value praise for accurate observa- 

 tion far higher than for any other quality, forgive (if you can) 

 the insufferable vanity of my copying the last sentence in his 

 note : " I regard your Monograph on Chile as, without ex- 

 ception, one of the finest specimens of Geological enquiry." 

 I feel inclined to strut like a Turkey-cock ! 



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