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goes, is a very rare quality. As I read on I perceived how 

 you have acquired this power, viz. by thoroughly analyzing 

 each word. 



. . . Now I am going to beg a favour. Will you pro- 

 visionally give me permission to reprint your article as a 

 shilling pamphlet ? I ask only provisionally, as I have not 

 yet had time to reflect on the subject. It would cost me, I 

 fancy, with advertisements, some ^20 or ^30 ; but the 

 worst is that, as I hear, pamphlets never will sell. And this 

 makes me doubtful. Should you think it too much trouble 

 to send me a title for the chance ? The title ought, I think, 

 to have Mr. Mivart's name on it. 



... If you grant permission and send a title, you will 

 kindly understand that I will first make further enquiries 

 whether there is any chance of a pamphlet being read. 

 Pray believe me yours very sincerely obliged, 



CH. DARWIN. 



[The pamphlet was published in the autumn, and on Oc- 

 tober 23 my father wrote to Mr. Wright : 



" It pleases me much that you are satisfied with the ap- 

 pearance of your pamphlet. I am sure it will do our cause 

 good service ; and this same opinion Huxley has expressed 

 to me. (' Letters of Chauncey Wright,' p. 235)"] 



C. Darwin to A. R. Wallace. 



Down, July 12 [1871]. 



.... I feel very doubtful how far I shall succeed in an- 

 swering Mivart, it is so difficult to answer objections to 

 doubtful points, and make the discussion readable. I shall 

 make only a selection. The worst of it is, that I cannot 

 possibly hunt through all my references for isolated points, it 

 would take me three weeks of intolerably hard work. I wish 

 I had your power of arguing clearly. At present I feel sick 

 of everything, and if I could occupy my time and forget my 

 daily discomforts, or rather miseries, I would never publish 



