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agencies ' lying deep in ' the nature of the organism.' In 

 other words, that Mr. Darwin has in fact/ though not in 

 express words, abandoned his original theory of the ' origin of 

 species.' 



I am grateful, however, to Professor Huxley for having 

 spoken of ' injustice ' in connection with Mr. Darwin. I am 

 so because it affords me an opportunity for declaring myself 

 more fully with respect to the distinction between Darwinism 

 and Mr. Darwin. 



In common, I am sure, with all those who have been 

 privileged to know not only Mr. Darwin's works, but Mr. 

 Darwin himself, I have ever entertained, and shall continue 

 to entertain, for that amiable gentleman and most accom- 

 plished naturahst the warmest sentiments of esteem and 

 regard. Convinced as I am that he is actuated by a pure 

 love of truth, admiring, nay, venerating him for his acute, his 

 unwearied, and widely-extended researches, it has been to me 

 a most painful task to stand forth as his avowed and public 

 opponent. 



The struggle between my inclination to praise and to 

 acquiesce, and my sense of duty which impelled me to dissent, 

 led me to express myself very imperfectly, and I thank 

 Professor Huxley for thus giving me occasion to acknowledge 

 my regret that these sentiments should have led me to give 

 such very inadequate expression to my dissent from, and 

 reprobation of, Mr. Darwin's views, especially as manifested in 

 their later developments. 



1 Professor Huxley now tells us that Mr. Darwin is inclined to admit 

 that varieties can * be perpetuated, or even intensified, when selective 

 conditions are indifferent, or perhaps unfavourable' to their 'existence.' 

 Surely, if species may be evolved in the teeth of all the opposition ' natural 

 selection ' can offer, it is, to say the least, somewhat paradoxical to affirm 

 that nevertheless natural selection is tlieir cause. For all this Mr. Darwin 

 has not, I believe, expressly said that the action of ' natural selection ' is only 

 subordinate, though he implies that it is but co-ordinate. So that though he 

 has virtually given up his original theory, his view does not yet coincide with 

 mine, as far as I can gather from his words. 



