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CHAPTER XIII. 



THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES ' — REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS — ADHESIONS 

 AND ATTACKS. 



" You are tho greatest revolutionist in natural history of this oentury, 

 if not of all centuries."— H. C. Watson to C. Darwin, Nov. 21, 1859. 



1860. 



The second edition, 3000 copies, of the Origin was published 

 on January 7th ; on the 10th, he wrote with regard to it, to 

 Lyell:— 



C. D. to G. Lyell. Down, January 10th [i860]. 



... It is perfectly true that I owe nearly all the corrections 

 to you, and several verbal ones to you and others ; I am heartily 

 glad you approve of them, as yet only two things have annoyed 

 me ; those confounded millions * of years (not that I think it 

 is probably wrong), and my not having (by inadvertence) 

 mentioned Wallace towards the close of the book in the sum- 

 mary, not that any one has noticed this to me. I have now put 

 in Wallace's name at p. 484 in a conspicuous place. I shall be 

 truly glad to read carefully any MS. on man, and give my 

 opinion. You used to caution me to be cautious about man. 

 I suspect I shall have to return the caution a hundred fold ! 

 Yours will, no doubt, be a grand discussion ; but it will horrify 

 the world at first more than my whole volume ; although by the 

 sentence (p. 489, new edition f ) I show that I believe man is 

 in the same predicament with other animals. It is in fact 

 impossible to doubt it I have thought (only vaguely) on man. 



* This refers to the passage in the Origin of Species (2nd edit. p. 285) 

 in which the lapse of time implied by the denudation of the Weald is 

 discussed. The discussion closes with the sentence : " So that it is not 

 improbable that a longer period than 300 million years has elapsed since 

 the latter part of the Secondary period." This passage is omitted in the 

 later editions of the Origin, against the advice of some of his friends, as 

 appears from the pencil notes in my father's copy of the 2nd edition. 



t In the first edition, the passages occur on p. 488. 



