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WORK ON 'MAN.' 



[1869, 



" Burke " yourself, however much you may try, as may be 

 seen in half the articles which appear. I was asked but the 

 other day by a German professor for your paper, which I 

 sent him. Altogether I look at your article as appearing in 

 the ' Quarterly ' as an immense triumph for our cause. I pre- 

 sume that your remarks on Man are those to which you 

 alluded in your note. If you had not told me I should have 

 thought that they had been added by some one else. As you 

 expected, I differ grievously from you, and I am very sorry 

 for it. I can see no necessity for calling in an additional and 

 proximate cause in regard to man.* But the subject is too 

 long for a letter. I have been particularly glad to read your 

 discussion because I am now writing and thinking much 

 about man. 



I hope that your Malay book sells well ; I was extremely 

 pleased with the article in the ' Quarterly Journal of Science,' 

 inasmuch as it is thoroughly appreciative of your work : alas t 

 you will probably agree with what the writer says about the 

 uses of the bamboo. 



I hear that there is also a good article in the Saturday 

 Review, but have heard nothing more about it. Believe me, 

 my dear Wallace, 



Yours ever sincerely, 



Ch. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, May 4 [1869]. 



My dear Lyell, — I have been applied to for some photo- 



* Mr. Wallace points out that 

 any one acquainted merely with the 

 " unaided productions of nature," 

 might reasonably doubt whether 

 a dray-horse, for example, could 

 have been developed by the 

 power of man directing the 



multiplication, and survival, for his 

 own purpose. We know, however, 

 that this has been done, and we 

 must therefore admit the possibility 

 that in the development of the 

 human race, a higher intelligence 

 has guided the same laws for nobler 



" action of the laws of variation, ends." 



