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And on January 28 Sir C. Lyell writes to him : 



I do grudge Hardwicke very much having not only 

 the publisher's but the author's profits. It so often 

 happens that popular lectures designed for a class and 

 inspired by an attentive audience's sympathy are better 

 than any writing in the closet for the purpose of educating 

 the many as readers, and of remunerating the publisher 

 and author. I would lose no time in considering well 

 what steps to take to rescue the copyright of the third 

 thousand. 



As for the value of the work thus done in support 

 of Darwin's theory, it is worth while quoting the 

 words of Lord Kelvin, when, as President of the 

 Royal Society in 1894, it fell to him to award Huxley 

 the Darwin Medal : 



To the world at large, perhaps, Mr. Huxley's share in 

 moulding the thesis of Natural Selection is less well known 

 than is his bold unwearied exposition and defence of it 

 after it had been made public. And, indeed, a speculative 

 trifler, revelling in the problems of the "might have 

 been," would find a congenial theme in the inquiry how 

 soon what we now call " Darwinism " would have met with 

 the acceptance with which it has met, and gained the 

 power which it has gained, had it not been for the brilliant 

 advocacy with which in its early days it was expounded 

 to all classes of men. 



That advocacy had one striking mark : while it made 

 or strove to make clear how deep the new view went 

 down, and how far it reached, it never shrank from trying 

 to make equally clear the limit beyond which it could 

 not go. 



