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hasten to thank you for both, and for the very honourable 

 mention which you make- of my name. You will readily 

 believe how much interested I am in observing that you 

 apply to moral and social questions analogous views to those 

 which I have used in regard to the modification of species. 

 It did not occur to me formerly that my views could be 

 extended to such widely different, and most important, sub- 

 jects. With much respect, I beg leave to remain, dear Sir, 

 Yours faithfully and obliged, 



CHARLES DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to T. H. Huxley. 



Down, March 19 [1869]. 



MY DEAR HUXLEY, Thanks for your 'Address.'* People 

 complain of the unequal distribution of wealth, but it is a 

 much greater shame and injustice that any one man should 

 have the power to write so many brilliant essays as you have 

 lately done. There is no one who writes like you. ... If 

 I were in your shoes, I should tremble for my life. I agree 

 with all you say, except that I must think that you draw 

 too great a distinction between the evolutionists and the 

 uniformitarians. 



I find that the few sentences which I have sent to press in 

 the ' Origin ' about the age of the world will do fairly well . . . 



Ever yours, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to A. R. Wallace. 



Down, March 22 [1869]. 



MY DEAR WALLACE, I have finished your book ; f it 

 seems to me excellent, and at the same time most pleasant to 



* In his 'Anniversary Address' Soc. Glasgow,' vol. iii.) "On Geo- 



to the Geological Society, 1869, logical Time." 

 Mr. Huxley criticised Sir William f ' The Malay Archipelago,' &c. 



Thomson's paper ('Trans. Geol. 1869. 



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