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phenomena. I believe it will be more respectful 

 to both of them to do this in the most out- 

 spoken way. I believe their work to have 

 been as mischievous as it has been valuable, 

 and as valuable as it has been mischievous ; 

 and higher, whether praise or blame, I know 

 not how to give. Nevertheless I would in 

 the outset, and with the utmost sincerity, 

 admit concerning Messrs. Wallace and Darwin 

 that neither can be held as the more profound 

 and conscientious thinker ; neither can be put 

 forward as the more ready to acknowledge 

 obligation to the great writers on evolution 

 who had preceded him, or to place his own 

 developments in closer and more conspicuous 

 historical connection with earlier thought upon 

 the subject; neither is the more ready to 

 welcome criticism and to state his opponent's 

 case in the most pointed and telling way in 

 which it can be put ; neither is the more quick 

 to encourage new truth ; neither is the more 

 genial, generous adversary, or has the pro- 

 founder horror of anything even approaching 

 literary or scientific want of candour ; both 



display the same inimitable power of putting 



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