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(p. 118). "I have always thought you would make a first-rato. 

 Lord Chancellor ; and I now appeal to you as a Lord Chancellor " 

 (p. 119). Your name and Hooker's name appearing as in any way the 

 least interested in my work will, I am certain, have the most im- 

 portant bearing in leading people to consider the subject without 

 prejudice " (p. 130). " I shall be most deeply delighted if you do 

 come round, especially if I have a fair share in the conversion, I 

 shall then feel that my career is run, and care little whether I ever 

 am good for anything again in this life Believe me, my dear Lyell, 

 your affectionate disciple" (p. 167). "As I regard your verdict as 

 far more important in my own eyes, and I believe in the eyes of the 

 world, than of any other dozen men, I am naturally very anxious 

 about it " (p. 166). " Now I care not what the universal world says ; 

 I have always found you right, and certainly on this occasion I am 

 not going to doubt for the first time I look at you as my Lord 

 High Chancellor in Natural Science " (p. 169). " And believe me, 

 with cordial thanks, your ever attached disciple" (p. 174). "As 

 you go as far as you do, I begin strongly to think, judging from 

 myself, that you will go much further How slowly the older geologists 

 admitted your grand vievx on existing geological causes of change ! " 

 (p. 177). "You are right, there is a screw out here (Madeira and 

 Bermuda birds not peculiar). I thought no one would have detected 

 it " (p. 209). " It is no use trying to thank you ; your kindness is 

 beyond thanks : I will certainly leave oat the whale and bear I 

 never even built a castle in the air of such success as it (my book) 

 has met with ; I do not mean the sale, but the impression it has 

 made on you (whom I have always looked at as chief judge) and 

 Hooker and Huxley " (p. 235). " I fully believe that I owe the 

 comfort of the next few years of my life to your generous support, 

 and that of a very few others " (p. 237). " As I have always said, 

 I am well convinced that your opinions and writings will do far 

 more to convince the world than mine. You will make a grand 

 discussion on man. You are very bold in this, and I honour you " 

 (p. 260). " I have so long looked at you as the type of cautious 

 scientific judgment What a grand immense benefit you conferred 

 on me by getting Murray to publish my book " (p. 266). " How 

 much I owe to you and Hooker ! " (p. 280). " It shows me what a 

 capital lawyer you would have made but how much grander a field 

 has science been than the law, though the latter might have made 

 you Lord Kinnordy " (p. 289). " I cannot help wondering at your 

 zeal about my book. I declare to heaven you seem to care as much 

 about my book as I do myself. You have no right to be so 



