30 SSAYS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL. 



II. 



DARWINISM. 1 



THOSE who have read the " Life and Letters of 

 Charles Darwin " will turn with keen interest to the 

 present volume. The relations between Wallace 

 and Darwin, as shown in these letters, did honour 

 to both. Either might have fairly claimed to be 

 the real discoverer of natural selection, yet there 

 was an entire absence of anything like rivalry 

 between them, an ungrudging appreciation of each 

 other's work, and, above all, a willingness to treat 

 their individual claims as subordinate to the truth 

 which both were helping to bring out Writing to 

 Wallace in 1860, the year of the publication of the 

 " Origin of Species," Darwin says 



" I admire the generous manner in which you speak of 

 my book. Most persons would in your position have felt 

 some envy or jealousy. How nobly free you seem to be of 

 this common failing of mankind ! You would, if you had my 

 leisure, have done the work just as well, perhaps better, than 

 I have done it." 



In the present volume Mr. Wallace writes more 



1 Darwinism. By Alfred R. Wallace, LL.D., F.L.S., etc. 

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