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he has them not, or, as is well said, so far as he does not 

 anziehen them, put them on. For example, grace is at all 

 possible only in the non-knowledge of itself; whereas 

 any one who knows his grace, who puts it on, has 



already lost it. It is the same with unconsciousness 



Unbefangenheit. What is uribefangen is that which never 

 at any time knows itself : directly it becomes conscious 

 of itself, it is already befangen." 



I fancy this perfectly well puts the comparative case 

 of the two works. The Origin, as a Befangenes, contrasts 

 with the Journal as an Uiibefangenc.s. The one is as 

 straitened, and stiff, and intentional, as the other is 

 facile, free, and spontaneous. The one is all conscious- 

 ness and thought ; the other is thought, but it is 

 without consciousness. The one is nothing but pre- 

 paration ; the other is only growth. In short, the one 

 is artifice, while the other is nature. And the reason is, 

 that the one is compilation, while the other is a record 

 of life. 



Now that is the pity of it ! The success of the book 

 depended on the belief of the public that it was the 

 product of work at first hand, and not of compilation at 

 second work at first hand and of the greatest naturalist 

 in existence. Mr. Darwin (ii. 281) says himself to Mr. 

 Huxley : " I have picked up most by reading really 

 numberless special treatises and all agricultural and 

 horticultural journals; but it is a work of long years. 

 The difficulty is to know what to trust" That really is 

 the difficulty ; and Mr. Darwin has reason in italicising 

 it. A compilation is always a dressing of facts for a 

 purpose ; and such a state of the case is simply glaring 

 in every turn of the Origin. Had it been but as true as 

 the Journal is ! Mr. Huxley himself tells us how it is 

 with compilation in general and Mr. Darwin's compila- 

 tion in particular. He is quoted (i. 347) to say 



