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of acquired characters upon his children's minds. 1 

 Darwin must also have been imbued with La- 

 marckian ideas from other sources, although 

 Dr. Grant's enthusiastic advocacy entirely failed 

 to convert him to a belief in evolution. 2 " Never- 

 theless," he says, " it is probable that the hearing 

 rather early in life such views maintained and 

 praised may have favoured my upholding them 

 under a different form in my Origin of Species " ' 

 a remark which refers to Lamarck's views on the 

 general doctrine of evolution, but might also prove 

 equally true if applied to Darwin's partial retention 

 of the Lamarckian explanation of that evolu- 

 tion. Professor Huxley has pointed out that in 



1 Life and Letters, i. p. 16. Darwin's reverence for his father 

 " was boundless and most touching. He would have wished to 

 judge everything else in the world dispassionately, but anything his 

 father had said was received with almost implicit faith ; . . . he 

 hoped none of his sons would ever believe anything because he said 

 it, unless they were themselves convinced of its truth a feeling in 

 striking contrast with his own manner of faith " (Life and Letters, 

 i. pp. 10, n). 2 Ibid. i. p. 38. 



