1863.] 'ANTIQUITY OF MAN.' jgg 



Lamarck, and others, propounded the obvious views that if 

 species were not created separately they must have descended 

 from other species, and I can see nothing else in common 

 between the ' Origin ' and Lamarck. I believe this way of 

 putting the case is very injurious to its acceptance, as it 

 implies necessary progression, and closely connects Wallace's 

 and my views with what I consider, after two deliberate 

 readings, as a wretched book, and one from which (I well 

 remember my surprise) I gained nothing. But I know you 

 rank it higher, which is curious, as it did not in the least 

 shake your belief. But enough, and more than enough. 

 Please remember you have brought it all down on yourself ! ! 



I am very sorry to hear about Falconer's " reclamation." * 

 I hate the very word, and have a sincere affection for him. 



Did you ever read anything so wretched as the AthencEiim 

 reviews of you, and of Huxley \ especially. Your object to 

 make man old, and Huxley's object to degrade him. The 

 wretched writer has not a glimpse what the discovery of 

 scientific truth means. How splendid some pages are in 

 Huxley, but I fear the book will not be popular. . . . 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down [March 13, 1863]. 



I should have thanked you sooner for the At/ienceum and 

 very pleasant previous note, but I have been busy, and not a 

 little uncomfortable from frequent uneasy feeling of fullness, 

 slight pain and tickling about the heart. But as I have no 

 other symptoms of heart complaint I do not suppose it is 

 affected. ... I have had a most kind and delightfully can- 

 did letter from Lyell, who says he spoke out as far as he be- 



* " Falconer, whom I referred to oftener than to any other author, says 

 I have not done justice to the part he took in resuscitating the cave ques- 

 tion, and says he shall come out with a separate paper to prove it. I of- 

 fered to alter anything in the new edition, but this he declined." — C. Lyell 

 to C. Darwin. March 11, 1863 ; Lyell's ' Life,' vol. ii. p. 364. 



f ' Man's Place in Nature,' 1863. 



