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(2.) I have gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a 

 conception of Deity, to believe that He created primal forms 

 capable of self-development into all forms needful pro tempore 

 and pro loco, as to believe that He required a fresh act of 

 intervention to supply the lacunas which He Himself had 

 made. I question whether the former be not the loftier 

 thought. 



Be it as it may, I shall prize your book, both for itself, and 

 as a proof that you are aware of the existence of such a 

 person as 



Your faithful servant, 



C. Kingslky. 



My father's old friend, the Rev. J. Brodie Innes, of Milton 

 Brodie, who was for many years Vicar of Down, in some 

 reminiscences of my father which he was so good as to give 

 me, writes in the same spirit : 



" We never attacked each other. Before I knew Mr. Darwin 

 I had adopted, and publicly expressed, the principle that the 

 study of natural history, geology, and science in general, 

 should be pursued without reference to the Bible. That the 

 Book of Nature and Scripture came from the same Divine 

 source, ran in parallel lines, and when properly understood 

 would never cross 



" In [a] letter, after I had left Down, he [Darwin] writes, 

 * We often differed, but you are one of those rare mortals from 

 whom one can differ and yet feel no shade of animosity, and 

 that is a thing [of] which I should feel very proud if any one 

 could say [it] of me.' 



" On my last visit to Down, Mr. Darwin said, at his dinner- 

 table, * Innes and I have been fast friends for thirty years, and 

 we never thoroughly agreed on any subject but once, and then 

 we stared hard at each other, and thought one of us must be 

 very ill.' " 



The following extract from a letter to Lyell, Feb. 23, 1860, 

 has a certain bearing on the points just touched on : 



" With respect to Bronn's * objection that it cannot be 

 shown how life arises, and likewise to a certain extent Asa 

 Gray's remark that natural selection is not a vera causa, I was 

 much interested by finding accidentally in Brewster's Life of 

 Newton, that Leibnitz objected to the law of gravity because 

 Newton could not show what gravity itself is. As it has 

 chanced, I have used in letters this very same argument, little 



* The translator of the first German edition of the Origin* 



