656 TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. [1875, 
If such as Professor Park and yourself were to ask 
it, I would see if a publisher could be got to take 
them up. But you don’t know how I dislike to have 
my name bruited about. 
Dr. Peabody was very glad of the relief you gave 
him on Sunday week, and like myself was greatly 
pleased with your thoughtful discourse. 
August 14, 1875. 
. The important thing to do, is to develop aright 
Srkidtoptacy teleology, and to present the argument 
for design from these exquisite adaptations in Paria a 
way as to make it tell on both sides; with Christian 
men, that they may be satisfied with, and perchance 
may learn to admire, Divine works effected step by 
step, if need be, in a system of nature ; and the anti- 
theistic people, to show that without the implication 
of a superintending wisdom nothing is made out, and 
nothing credible. 
ow for a month or two, I am pressed by daily 
technical work to the extreme, and get no chance to 
turn these matters over in my mind. 
I don’t want to handle this argument in such a way 
that it can be gainsaid, nor without touching the very 
point. May I ask you to help me? You see how the 
question stands. How shall we best handle it? .. . 
September 14, 1875. 
. . . [have been crowded and much absorbed with 
my part of the California botany; get put back, by 
new collections, and have had the printer on my 
heels, which is not pleasant. 
I have to drive with all my might, and am not yet 
clear, though I trust the worst is past. I get so fagged 
