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he is lavish in acknowledging the smallest debts he may owe ; 

 and his book will make many men happy." 



I am indebted to Messrs. Smith & Elder for the informa- 

 tion that these articles were written by Mr. G. H. Lewes.] 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, February 23 [1868]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I have had almost as many letters 

 to write of late as you can have, viz. from 8 to 10 per diem, 

 chiefly getting up facts on sexual selection, therefore I have 

 felt no inclination to write to you, and now I mean to write 

 solely about my book for my own satisfaction, and not at all for 

 yours. The first edition was 1500 copies, and now the second 

 is printed off ; sharp work. Did you look at the review in the 

 A thenceum* showing profound contempt of me ? ... It is a 

 shame that he should have said that I have taken much from 

 Pouchet, without acknowledgment ; for I took literally nothing, 

 there being nothing to take. There is a capital review in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, which will sell the book if anything will. 



* Athenxum, February 15, 1868. " Henceforth the rhetoricians will 



My father quoted Pouchet's asser- have a better illustration of anti- 



tion that "variation under domes- climax than the mountain which 



tication throws no light on the brought forth a mouse, ... in the 



natural modification of species." discoverer of the origin of species, 



The reviewer quotes the end of who tried to explain the variation 



a passage in which my father de- of pigeons ! 



clares that he can see no force "A few summary words. On 



in Pouchet's arguments, or rather the ' Origin of Species ' Mr. Dar- 



assertions, and then goes on : "We win has nothing, and is never likely 



are sadly mistaken if there are not to have anything, to say ; but on the 



clear proofs in the pages of the vastly important subject of inheri- 



book before us that, on the contrary, tance, the transmission of pecu- 



Mr. Darwin has perceived, felt, and liarities once acquired through 



yielded to the force of the argu- successive generations, this work 



ments or assertions of his French is a valuable store-house of facts 



antagonist." The following may for curious students and practical 



serve as samples of the rest of the breeders." 

 review : 



