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«7. 64.) TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT. 655 
TO G. FREDERICK WRIGHT.' 
Boranic GARDEN, July 1, 1875. 
Dear Mr. Wricut, — Thanks for your letter. It 
may be that the time has come in which a collection 
of my popular articles on Darwinism, ete.; would be 
useful? Your thinking so would go far to make me 
believe it. But then, you are one of the moderate 
number of people who have carefully read them, and. 
one of the few who well understand and appreciate 
them, — because you have given the subject an atten- 
tive consideration, — and who are awake to the harm 
that comes from theologians and ministers denoun- 
cing a view that scientific men are more and more 
receiving as probably true. I should like to know 
how Professor Park regards the proposition. 
I will say that while Iam not unwilling to collect 
them for reprinting, in case they are called for, it would 
not quite do for me, in the position I occupy (I mean 
as aman of science), to republish them in a collected 
form, without entering anew and further into some of 
the pending questions ; to do which would seriously 
interrupt the legitimate work which I have in hand, 
and to which I am deeply pledged. I suppose I could 
add, and should be disposed to add, a note or two,— 
especially one upon teleology from a Darwinian point 
view, —a subject upon which there is something 
still to be said, though I do not see the way to say it 
conclusively. You will probably do it better than I 
ever can. 
At present, I ihisike T should let them alone, unless 
there comes what you ministers recognize as a call for 
hia and such a call I should defer to. 
v. G. Frederick Wright, then a clergyman at Andover, Mass., 
— cra at Oberlin io. 
book was published ar Mr. Wright 
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