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progressive development theory is certainly true. Nor 

 have they reported here my distinct statement that I 

 believe man and the apes to have come from one stock. 



Having got thus far, I find the lecture better reported 

 in the Courant, so I send you that instead. 



I mean to publish the lecture in full by and by (about 

 the time the orchids come out x ). Ever yours faithfully, 



T. H. HUXLEY. 



I deserved the greatest credit for not having made an 

 onslaught on Brewster for his foolish impertinence about 

 your views in Good Words, but declined to stir nationality, 

 which you know (in him) is rather more than his Bible. 



JERMYN STREET, January 16, 1862. 



MY DEAR HOOKER I wonder if we are ever to meet 

 again in this world ! At any rate I send to the remote 

 province of Kew, Greeting, and my best wishes for the 

 new year to you and yours. I also enclose a slip from 

 an Edinburgh paper containing a report of my lecture on 

 the " Relation of Man," etc. As you will see, I went in 

 for the entire animal more strongly, in fact, than they 

 have reported me. I told them in so many words that I 

 entertained no doubt of the origin of man from the same 

 stock as the apes. 



And to my great delight, in saintly Edinburgh itself 

 the announcement met with nothing but applause. For 

 myself I can't say that the praise or blame of my audience 

 was much matter, but it is a grand indication of the 

 general disintegration of old prejudices which is going on. 



I shall see if I cannot make something more of the 

 lectures by delivering them again in London, and then 

 I shall publish them. 



The report does not put nearly strong enough what 

 I said in favour of Darwin's views. I affirmed it to 

 be the only scientific hypothesis of the origin of species 



1 i,e. Darwin's book on Orchids. 



