From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion 

 of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion 

 what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have 

 been my two gods, though in very diiferent ways, but they 

 were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle. 



Charles Darwin to 

 William Ogle, on 

 the publication of 

 his translation of 

 The Parts of Ani- 

 mals, 1882. 



