The Wallace-Darwin Correspondence 



up for that on '' Modern Geology '' last year not mention- 

 ing Sir C. Lyell. 



Really, what with the Tories passing Radical Reform 

 Bills and the Church periodicals advocating Darwinian- 

 ism, the millennium must be at hand. — A. R. W. 



Down, Bromley, Kent, S.E. January 22, 1869. 



My dear Wallace, — Your intended dedication pleases me 

 much and I look at it as a great honour, and this is 

 nothing more than the truth. I am glad to hear, for 

 Ly ell's sake and on general grounds, that you are going 

 to write in the Quarterly, Some little time ago I was 

 actually wishing that you wrote in the Quarterly ^ as I 

 knew that you occasionally contributed to periodicals, and 

 I thought that your articles would thus be more widely 

 read. 



Thank you for telling me about the Guardian, 

 which I will borrow from Lyell. I did note the article 

 in the Quarterly Journal of Science and put it aside 

 to read again with the articles in Fraser and the 

 Spectator, 



I have been interrupted in my regular work in prepar- 

 ing a new edition^ of the ^^ Origin," which has cost me 

 much labour, and which I hope I have considerably im- 

 proved in two or three important points. I always thought 

 individual differences more important than single varia- 

 tions, but now I have come to the conclusion that they 

 are of paramount importance, and in this I believe I 

 agree with you. Fleeming Jenkin's arguments have con- 

 vinced me.* 



I heartily congratulate you on your new book being so 

 nearly finished. — Believe me, my dear Wallace, yours very 

 sincerely, Ch. Darwin. 



» The fifth. » Explained in letter of February 2, 1869. See p. 234, 



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