n g THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [i86cx 



parts, and brings forward well all the difficulties. It quizzes 

 me quite splendidly by quoting the ' Anti-Jacobin ' versus 

 my Grandfather. You are not alluded to, nor, strange to say, 



Huxley ; and I can plainly see, here and there, 's hand. 



The concluding pages will make Lyell shake in his shoes. 

 By Jove, if he sticks to us, he will be a real hero. Good- 

 night. Your well-quizzed, but not sorrowful, and affectionate 

 friend. C. D. 



I can see there has been some queer tampering with the 

 Review, for a page has been cut out and reprinted. 



[Writing on July 22 to Dr. Asa Gray my father thus refers 

 to Lyell's position : 



Contributed to the 'Quarterly Review,' 1874." The passage from the 

 ' Anti-Jacobin ' gives the history of the evolution of space from the " pri- 

 maeval point or punctum saliens of the universe," which is conceived to 

 have moved " forward in a right line, ad injinitum, till it grew tired ; 

 after which the right line, which it had generated, would begin to put it- 

 self in motion in a lateral direction, describing an area of infinite extent. 

 This area, as soon as it became conscious of its own existence, would be- 

 gin to ascend or descend according as its specific gravity would determine 

 it, forming an immense solid space filled with vacuum, and capable of 

 containing the present universe." 



The following (p. 263) may serve as an example of the passages in 

 which the reviewer refers to Sir Charles Lyell : " That Mr. Darwin 

 should have wandered from this broad highway of nature's works into the 

 jungle of fanciful assumption is no small evil. We trust that he is mis- 

 taken in believing that he may count Sir C. Lyell as one of his converts. 

 We know, indeed, that the strength of the temptations which he can bring 

 to bear upon his geological brother. . . . Yet no man has been more dis- 

 tinct and more logical in the denial of the transmutation of species than 

 Sir C. Lyell, and that not in the infancy of his scientific life, but in its full 

 vigour and maturity." The Bishop goes on to appeal to Lyell, in order 

 that with his help " this flimsy speculation may be as completely put down 

 as was what in spite of all denials we must venture to call its twin though 

 less instructed brother, the ' Vestiges of Creation.' " 



With reference to this article, Mr. Brodie Innes, my father's old friend 

 and neighbour, writes : " Most men would have been annoyed by an ar- 

 ticle written with the Bishop's accustomed vigour, a mixture of argument 



