l8;i.] EXPRESSION. 143 



C. Darwin to W. Ogle. 



Down, April 29 [1871]. 



MY DEAR DR. OGLE, I am truly obliged for all the 

 great trouble which you have so kindly taken. I am sure 

 you have no cause to say that you are sorry you can give me 

 no definite information, for you have given me far more than 

 I ever expected to get. The action of the platysma is not 

 very important for me, but I believe that you will fully 

 understand (for I have always fancied that our minds were 

 very similar) the intolerable desire I had not to be utterly 

 baffled. Now I know that it sometimes contracts from fear 

 and from shuddering, but not apparently from a prolonged 

 state of fear such as the insane suffer. . . . 



[Mr. Mivart's ' Genesis of Species/ a contribution to the 

 literature of Evolution, which excited much attention, was 

 published in 1871, before the appearance of the 'Descent of 

 Man.' To this book the following letter (June 21, 1871) 

 from the late Chauncey Wright * to my father, refers : 



" I send . . . revised proofs of an article which will be 

 published in the July number of the ' North American 

 Review,' sending it in the hope that it will interest or even be 

 of greater value to you. Mr. Mivart's book [' Genesis of 

 Species '] of which this article is substantially a review, seems 

 to me a very good background from which to present the 

 considerations which I have endeavoured to set forth in the 

 article, in defence and illustration of the theory of Natural 



* Chauncey Wright was born at articles, as well by a little teaching. 



Northampton, Massachusetts, Sept. He thought and read much on 



20, 1830, and came of a family metaphysical subjects, but on the 



settled in that town since 1654. whole with an outcome (as far as 



He became in 1852 a computer in the world was concerned) not com- 



the Nautical Almanac office at Cam- mensurate to the power of his mind, 



bridge, Mass., and lived a quiet un- He seems to have been a man of 



eventful life, supported by the small strong individuality, and to have 



stipend of his office, and by what made a lasting impression on his 



he earned from his occasional friends. He died in Sept. 1875. 



