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his candour : that, at all events, candour, he has not been 

 in the habit of hearing sneered at, or denied to him. 

 And it must be said that were not candour understood 

 to be a chief and distinctive feature of Mr. Darwin's 

 character, what portrait we have hitherto here seen of 

 him would be without drawing: it would be irrecog- 

 nisable. Nevertheless Tendenz is the soul of the Origin. 



