1890 COEEESPONDENCE WITH DE. ASA GEAY 161 

 To Professor Asa Gray. 



May 16, 1883. 



Dear Professor Gray, The receipt of your kind 

 letter of the 1st instant has given me in full measure 

 the sincerest kind of pleasure ; for in the light sup- 

 plied by your second letter communicated to 

 i Nature ' I came deeply to regret my misunderstand- 

 ing of the spirit in which you wrote the first one, and 

 now you enable me to feel that we have shaken 

 hands over the matter. 



For my own part I am always glad when differ- 

 ences in matter of opinion admit of being honestly 

 expressed without enmity, and still more so when, as 

 in the present case, this discussion leads to a basis of 

 friendship. I therefore thank you most heartily for 

 your letter, and remain yours very truly, 



G. J. ROMANES. 



P.S. If you have not already happened to read a 

 book called l A Candid Examination of Theism, ' I should 

 like to send you a copy. I wrote it six or seven years 

 ago and published it anonymously in 1878. I do not 

 now hold to all the arguments, nor should I express 

 myself so strongly on the argumentative force of the 

 remainder, but I should like you to read the book, in 

 order to show you how gladly I would enter your 

 camp if I could only see that it is on the side of 

 Truth. 



December 30, 1883. 



Dear Professor Gray, I sent you my papers as a 

 return for those which you so kindly sent to me, and 



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