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cp. ii. 21, 36), he had, in his Criticism of the Origin 

 (1864, ii. 86), and the Genealogy of Animals (1869, ii. 

 109, sqq.), shown how "perhaps the most remarkable 

 service to the philosophy of Biology rendered by Mr. 

 Darwin is the reconciliation of teleology and mor- 

 phology, and the explanation of the facts of both 

 which his views offer . . . the wider teleology, which 

 is actually based upon the fundamental proposition 

 of evolution." 



His note-book shows that he was busy with Eeptilia 

 from Elgin and from India ; and with his Manual of 

 Invertebrate Anato r rny, which was published the next 

 year ; while he refused to undertake a course of ten 

 lectures at the Royal Institution, saying that he had 

 already too much other work to do, and would have 

 no time for original work. 



About this time, also, in answer to a request from 

 a believer in miracles, " that those who fail to perceive 

 the cogency of the evidence by which the occurrence 

 of miracles is supported, should not confine themselves 

 to the discussion of general principles, but should 

 grapple with some particular case of an alleged 

 miracle," he read before the Metaphysical Society a 

 paper dealing with the evidence for the miracle of 

 the resurrection. (See i. p. 459.) 



Some friends wished him to publish the paper as 

 a contribution to criticism ; but his own doubts as 

 to the opportuneness of so doing were confirmed by 

 a letter from Mr. John Morley, then editor of the 

 Fortnightly Review, to which he replied (January 18): 



