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selection. And, finally, if it be recollected that 
Mr. Darwin’s and Mr. Wallace’s essays were 
published simultaneously in the “ Journal of the 
Linnean Society” for 1858, it follows that the 
Reviewer, while obliquely depreciating Mr. Dar- 
win’s deserts, has in reality awarded to him a 
priority which, in legal strictness, does not exist. 
Mr. Mivart, whose opinions so often concur with 
those of the Quarterly Reviewer, puts the case in 
a way, which I much regret to be obliged to say, 
is, in my judgment, quite as incorrect ; though 
the injustice may be less glaring. He says that 
the theory of natural selection is, in general, ex- 
clusively associated with the name of Mr. Darwin 
“on account of the noble self-abnegation of Mr. 
Wallace.” As I have said, no one can honour Mr. 
Wallace more than I do, both for what he has 
done and for what he has not done, in his relation — 
to Mr. Darwin. And perhaps nothing is more 
creditable to him than his frank declaration that 
he could not have written such a work as the 
“ Origin of Species.” But, by this declaration, the 
person most directly interested in the matter re- 
pudiates, by anticipation, Mr. Mivart’s suggestion 
that Mr. Darwin’s eminence is more or less due to 
Mr. Wallace’s modesty. ' 
