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worth the doing. It makes me resolve to buckle on my 

 armour. I see plainly that it will be a long uphill fight. But 

 think of Lyell's progress with Geology. One thing I see most 

 plainly, that without Lyell's, yours, Huxley's and Carpenter's 

 aid, my book would have been a mere flash in the pan. But if 

 we all stick to it, we shall surely gain the day. And I now 

 see that the battle is worth fighting. I deeply hope that you 

 think so. 



C. D. to Asa Gray. Down May 22nd [I860]. 



My dear Gray, — Again I have to thank you for one of your 

 very pleasant letters of May 7th, enclosing a very pleasant 

 remittance of £22. I am in simple truth astonished at all 

 the kind trouble you have taken for me. I return Appletons' 

 account. For the chance of your wishing for a formal acknow- 

 ledgment I send one. If you have any further communi- 

 cation to the Appletons, pray express my acknowledgment for 

 [their] generosity; for it is generosity in my opinion. I am 

 not at all surprised at the sale diminishing ; my extreme 

 surprise is at the greatness of the sale. No doubt the public 

 has been shamefully imposed on ! for they bought the book 

 thinking that it would be nice easy reading. I expect the sale 

 to stop soon in England, yet Lyell wrote to me the other day 

 that calling at Murray's he heard that fifty copies had gone in 

 the previous forty-eight hours. I am extremely glad that you 

 will notice in Silliman the additions in the Origin.* Judging 

 from letters (and I have just seen one from Thwaites to 

 Hooker), and from remarks, the most serious omission in my 

 book was not explaining how it is, as I believe, that all forms 

 do not necessarily advance, how there can now be simple organ- 

 isms still existing. ... I hear there is a very severe review on 

 me in the North British by a Eev. Mr. Dunns, f a Free Kirk 

 minister, and dabbler in Natural History. In the Saturday 

 Heview (one of our cleverest periodicals) of May 5th, p. 573, 

 there is a nice article on [the Edi7iburgh] review, defending 

 Huxley, but not Hooker ; and the latter, I think, [the Edinburgh 



* " The battle rages furiously in the United States. Gray says he 

 was preparing a speech, which would take 1 J hours to deliver, and which 

 he ' fondly hoped would be a stunner.' He is fighting splendidly, and 

 there seem to have been many discussions with Agassiz and others at the 

 meetings. Agassiz pities me much at being so deluded." — From a 

 letter to Hooker, May 30th, 1860. 



t The statement as to authorship was made on the authority of Robert 

 Chambers. 



