196 DARWINIANISM. 



Now there is no intention of making more of this than 

 it is worth ; there cannot be a wish to make an odious 

 lean Jacques Eousseau of Charles Darwin. All that we 

 hold it to be good for is to suggest that there was a 

 strand of a certain slyness harmless if you like, in- 

 nocent if you like, amiable if you like but still that 

 there was such strand in " the original filament " of 

 the namer of that filament's own grandson. When he 

 refers to the results of " fundamental organic conditions," 

 we might almost find a warrant for as much as that in 

 old Erasmus himself. Nay, might not Dr. Krause claim 

 Erasmian heredity for this avowal of Mr. Darwin's own 

 (ii. 142): "I must entirely agree with you that all 

 expression has some biological meaning " ? 



It is as an element contributed by himself to his own 

 success that we at all name the strand in question here. 

 Now this element of success, if it is one, may be said 

 to have had a threefold bearing: First, as concerns 

 his work itself ; second, his enemies ; and, third, his 

 friends. 



1. There is a certain sagacity in Mr. Darwin which, if 

 it was not present in the beginning of his book, is at least 

 to be seen with some complacency in the end of it. We 

 have (i. 87) for instance this 



" The success of the Origin may, I think, be attributed in large 

 part to my having long before written two condensed sketches, and 

 to my having finally abstracted a much larger manuscript, which 

 was itself an abstract. By this means I was enabled to select the more 

 striking facts and conclusions " (" he took much trouble," says his 

 son (i. 156), "over points which would strike the reader," and 

 (p. 119) "he was careful to tell me to make an important clause 

 begin so as to catch the eye "). 



It is really not inconsistent with this that he is still 

 aware (i. 85) "how necessary it is that any new view 

 should be explained at considerable leTigth in order to 



