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" Burke " yourself, however much you may try, as may be 

 seen in half the articles which appear. I was asked but the 

 other day by a German professor for your paper, which I 

 sent him. Altogether I look at your article as appearing in 

 the ' Quarterly ' as an immense triumph for our cause. I pre- 

 sume that your remarks on Man are those to which you 

 alluded in your note. If you had not told me I should have 

 thought that they had been added by some one else. As you 

 expected, I differ grievously from you, and I am very sorry 

 for it. I can see no necessity for calling in an additional and 

 proximate cause in regard to man.* But the subject is too 

 long for a letter. I have been particularly glad to read your 

 discussion because I am now writing and thinking much 

 about man. 



I hope that your Malay book sells well ; I was extremely 

 pleased with the article in the ' Quarterly Journal of Science,' 

 inasmuch as it is thoroughly appreciative of your work : alas ! 

 you will probably agree with what the writer says about the 

 uses of the bamboo. 



I hear that there is also a good article in the Saturday 

 Review, but have heard nothing more about it. Believe me, 

 my dear Wallace, 



Yours ever sincerely, 



CH. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, May 4 [1869]. 

 MY DEAR LYELL, I have been applied to for some photo- 



* Mr. Wallace points out that multiplication, and survival, for his 



any one acquainted merely with the own purpose. We know, however, 



" unaided productions of nature," that this has been done, and we 



might reasonably doubt whether must therefore admit the possibility 



a dray-horse, for example, could that in the development of the 



have been developed by the human race, a higher intelligence 



power of man directing the has guided the same laws for nobler 



" action of the laws of variation, ends." 



