I02 Evolution audits Consequences 



seen more distinctly by the popular eye, an assertion no one 

 can question.^ 



As a fact, I believe that Mr. Wallace, in the passage 

 quoted by Professor Huxley, allows his modesty to deceive 

 him. From what I know of Mr. Wallace, I venture to affirm 

 he underrates his powers, and I am convinced he could have 

 written as good a defence of natural selection as even the 

 Origin of Species. There are not wanting those who, though 

 they have carefully studied Mr. Darwin's work, only fully 

 understood his theory when presented to their mind in the 

 clear, lucid, and admirable writings of Mr Wallace. 



1 Dr. Hooker, in his address to the British Association at Norwich, made 

 the following remarks on the subject : * Of Mr. Wallace and his many con- 

 tributions to philosophical biology, it is not easy to speak without enthusiasm ; 

 for, putting aside their great merits, he, throughout his writings, with a 

 modesty as rare as I believe it to be in him unconscious, forgets his own 

 unquestioned claims to the honour of having originated, independently of 

 Mr. Darwin, the theories which he so ably defends.' — See Report for 1868, 

 p. Ixxi. 



