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5. Because he understood my arrangement of the subject 

 better than yours — at least so he said, some 18 months ago. 



All this is no reason for putting me in the same category 

 mth you as propounder of the doctrine, which his work 

 seems to me too much to do. However, I have not alluded 

 to this subject to him, nor should T, if he had been as careful 

 never to mention my name, as Huxley would seem to be, not 

 that he really is so in the least I am sure. 



To this Darwin replied (March 17) : 



What a candid honest fellow you are, too candid and 

 too honest. I do not believe one man in ten thousand 

 would have thought and said what you say about your own 

 work in your letter. I told Lyell that nothing pleased me 

 more in his work than the conspicuous position in which 

 he very properly placed you. 



