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WORK ON ' MAN.' 



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

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

 lieve 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, subjects. 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.' * Peo- 

 ple 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 likes 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 uni- 

 formitarians. 



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 ; \ it 

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

 read. That you ever returned alive is wonderful after all 



* In his 'Anniversary Address' to the Geological Society, 1869, Mr. 

 Huxley criticised Sir William Thomson's paper (' Trans. Geol. Soc., Glas- 

 gow,' vol. iii.) "On Geological Time." 



f ' The Malay Archipelago,' &c., 1869. 



