4 SPREAD OF EVOLUTION. [1863. 



her I was looking at ' Enoch Arden,' and as I know how she 

 admires Tennyson, I must call her attention to two sweetly 

 pretty lines . . . 



. . . and he meant, he said he meant, 

 Perhaps he meant, or partly meant, you well.* 



Such a gem as this is enough to make me young again, and 

 like poetry with pristine fervour. 



My dear Huxley, yours affectionately, 



CH. DARWIN. 



[In another letter (Jan. 1865) he returns to the above 

 suggestion, though he was in general strongly opposed to 

 men of science giving up to the writing of text-books, or to 

 teaching, the time that might otherwise have been given to 

 original research. 



" I knew there was very little chance of your having time 

 to write a popular treatise on Zoology, but you are about the 

 one man who could do it. At the time I felt it would be 

 almost a sin for you to do it, as it would of course destroy 

 some original work. On the other hand I sometimes think 

 that general and popular treatises are almost as important for 

 the progress of science as original work." 



The series of letters will continue the history of the year 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, Jan. 3 [1863]. 



TVfY DEAR HOOKER. I am burning with indignation and 

 -must exhale. ... I could not get to sleep till past 3 last 

 night for indignation.! . . . 



* From " Sea Dreams," in ' Enoch anger. It was a question of literary 



Arden,' &c., 1864, p. 105. dishonesty, in which a friend was 



f It would serve no useful pur- the sufferer, but which in no way 



pose if I were to go into the matter affected himself. 

 which so strongly roused my father's 



