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his own belief, sufficiently a Darwinian. But that was 

 not always so. " I see you have introduced several sen- 

 tences against us Transmutationists," Mr. Darwin writes 

 to him once (i. 355). This was in 1847. In 1853, 

 that is six years later, he was still to convince, for Mr. 

 Darwin at that date complains that the New Zealand 

 Flora " almost made me gloomy, partly from feeling I 

 could not answer some points." " I shall gnash my teeth," 

 he adds, " and abuse you for having put so many hostile 

 facts so confoundedly well." Later still, even as late 

 as 1860, ten months after publication of the Origin, 

 and Darwin's assurance, as well, to Carpenter (ii. 223), 

 that Hooker was a " believer," Mr. Darwin complains 

 to Asa Gray that Hooker (Lyell, too) " sometimes uses 

 expressions to which I demur." He compliments Gray 

 on freedom from the like demurrage at the same time 

 that he yet somewhat contradictorily hopes (p. 345) 

 that he (Gray) will still " go further in believing." Sir 

 Joseph Hooker, no doubt, is of opinion that he is a philo- 

 sophical naturalist in adhering to Darwinianism ; but I, 

 for my part, could wish that the son of the grand Sir 

 William (whom, in Glasgow, I, as a lad, not yet a student, 

 saw once I still remember his sleeve - buckles !) was 

 even too philosophical to believe that the whole mighty 

 organic universe originated in the selected accidental 

 appositencss of accidental variation. I have already inti- 

 mated my respect for Mr. Huxley, as well as spoken of 

 the two points on his part that concern Greek philosophy 

 and Sir Charles Lyell. His chapter on the " Reception " 

 offers to such views as mine enormous scope for adverse- 

 criticism more or less irreverent. I know not, however, 

 that, strictly in connection, there remain more than two 

 other points to refer to. These concern, first, what we 

 may call popular orthodoxy, and, second, the special 

 reason for standing by the theory of Mr. Darwin, whereby 



