x.] MR. DARWIN^ CRITICS. 269 



selection is, in general, exclusively associated with the 

 name of Mr. Darwin, " on account of the noble self- 

 abnegation of Mr. Wallace." As I have said, no one 

 can honour Mr. Wallace more than I do, both for what 

 he has done and for what he has not done, in his rela- 

 tion to Mr, Darwin. And perhaps nothing is more 

 creditable to him than his frank declaration that he 

 could not have written such a work as the " Origin of 

 Species." But, by this declaration, the person most 

 directly interested in the matter repudiates, by antici- 

 pation, Mr. Mivart's suggestion that Mr. Darwin's emi- 

 nence is more or less due to Mr. Wallace's modesty. 





