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stand on the same foundation, and that he must allow the 

 latter if he allows the former, which I tell him is perfectly 

 logical." 



Is not this marvellous ? 



Ever yours, 



C. DARWIN. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker. 



Down, Feb. 4 [1861]. 



MY DEAR HOOKER, I was delighted to get your long 

 chatty letter, and to hear that you are thawing towards sci- 

 ence. I almost wish you had remained frozen rather longer ; 

 but do not thaw too quickly and strongly. No one can work 

 long as you used to do. Be idle ; but I am a pretty man to 

 preach, for I cannot be idle, much as I wish it, and am never 

 comfortable except when at work. The word holiday is writ- 

 ten in a dead language for me, and much I grieve at it. We 

 thank you sincerely for your kind sympathy about poor H. 



[his daughter] She has now come up to her old point, 



and can sometimes get up for an hour or two twice a day. 

 . . . Never to look to the future or as little as possible is be- 

 coming our rule of life. What a different thing life was in 

 youth with no dread in the future ; all golden, if baseless, 

 hopes. 



.... With respect to the ' Natural History Review ' I 

 can hardly think that ladies would be so very sensitive about 

 " lizards' guts ; " but the publication is at present certainly a 

 sort of hybrid, and original illustrated papers ought hardly 

 to appear in a review.' I doubt its ever paying; but I shall 

 much regret if it dies. All that you say seems very sensible, 

 but could a review in the strict sense of the word be filled 

 with readable matter ? 



I have been doing little, except finishing the new edition 

 of the ' Origin/ and crawling on most slowly with my volume 

 of ' Variation under Domestication.' .... 



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