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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 

 evolutionary teleology, and to present the argument 

 for design from these exquisite adaptations in such a 

 way as to make it tell on both sides ; with Cliristian 

 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. 



Now 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. 



... I 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 aU my might, and am not yet 

 clear, though I trust the worst is past. I get so fagged 



