1864-1869] HACK EL 277 



apricots by " bud-variation " ! How ignorant we are ! But Letter 196 

 with the many good observers now living our children's 

 children will be less ignorant, and that is a comfort. 



To T. II. Huxley. Lett « «97 



Down, Jan. 7th [1S67]. 

 Very many thanks for your letter, which has told me 

 exactly what I wanted to know. I shall give up all 

 thoughts of trying to get the book : translated, for I am 

 well convinced that it would be hopeless without too great 

 an outlay. I much regret this, as 1 should think the work 

 would be useful, and I am sure it would be to me, as I 

 shall never be able to wade through more than here and 

 there a page of the original. To all people I cannot but 

 think that the number of new terms would be a great evil. 

 I must write to him. I suppose you know his address, but 

 in case you do not, it is "to care of Signor Nicolaus 

 Krohn, Madeira." I have sent the MS. of my big book, 2 

 and horridly, disgustingly big it will be, to the printers," but 

 I do not suppose it will be published, owing to Murray's 

 idea on seasons, till next November. I am thinking of a 

 chapter on Man, as there has lately been so much said 

 on Natural Selection in relation to man. I have not seen 

 the Duke's 3 (or Dukelet's? how can you speak so of a 

 living real Duke?) book, but must get it from Mudie, as 

 you say he attacks us. 



p.S. — Nature never made species mutually sterile by 

 selection, nor will men. 



To E. Hackel. Letter 198 



Down, Jan. 8th [1S67]. 



I received some weeks ago your great work ' ; I have 

 read several parts, but I am too poor a German scholar and 

 the book is too large for me to read it all. I cannot 

 tell you how much I regret this, for I am sure that nearly 



1 Hacker's Gcnerelle Morphologie, 1866. See Life and Letters, III., 

 pp. 67, 68. 



3 The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, 1868. 



3 The Reign of Law (1867), by the late Duke of Argyll. See Lite 

 and Letters, III., p. 65. 



4 Generelle Morphologie, 1866. 



