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whole was rubbish ! Yet he has done for man something 

 like what Agassiz did for glaciers.* 



I cannot say that I agree with Hooker about the public 

 not liking to be told what to conclude, if corning from one in 

 your position. But I am heartily sorry that I was led to make 

 complaints, or something very like complaints, on the manner 

 in which you have treated the subject, and still more so any- 

 thing about myself. I steadily endeavour never to forget my 

 firm belief that no one can at all judge about his own work. 

 As for Lamarck, as you have such a man as Grove with you, 

 you are triumphant ; not that I can alter my opinion that to 

 me it was an absolutely useless book. Perhaps this was 

 owing to my always searching books for facts, perhaps from 

 knowing my grandfather's earlier and identically the same 

 speculation. I will only further say that if I can analyse my 

 own feelings (a very doubtful process), it is nearly as much 

 for your sake as for my own, that I so much wish that your 

 state of belief could have permitted you to say boldly and 

 distinctly out that species were not separately created. I 

 have generally told you the progress of opinion, as I have 

 heard it, on the species question. A first-rate German natur- 

 alist t (I now forget the name !), who has lately published a 

 grand folio, has spoken out to the utmost extent on the 

 ' Origin.' De Candolle, in a very good paper on " Oaks," 

 goes, in Asa Gray's opinion, as far as he himself does ; but 

 De Candolle, in writing to me, says we, " we think this and 

 that ;" so that I infer he really goes to the full extent with me, 

 and tells me of a French good botanical palaeontologist (name 



* In his ' Antiques Celtiques ' quity of Man,' first edition, p. 95.) 

 (1847), Boucher de Perthes de- f No doubt Haeckel, whose mo- 

 scribed the flint tools found at nograph on the Radiolaria was 

 Abbeville with bones of rhinoceros, published in 1862. In the same 

 hyaena, &c. " But the scientific year Professor W. Preyer of Jena 

 world had no faith in the statement published a Dissertation on A lea 

 that works of art, however rude, impennis^ which was one of the 

 had been met with in undisturbed earliest pieces of special work on 

 beds of such antiquity." (' Anti- the basis of the ' Origin of Species.' 



