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ning of this century resembled those now in vogue 

 among a large body of naturalists respecting the 

 infinite variability of species, and the progressive de- 

 velopment in past time of the organic world." * Sir 

 Charles Lyell could not have written thus if he had 

 thought that Mr. Darwin had already done "justice 

 to Lamarck," nor is it likely that he stood alone in 

 thinking as he did. It is probable that more reached 

 Mr. Darwin than reached the public, and that the 

 historical sketch prefixed to all editions after the first 

 six thousand copies had been sold — meagre and slovenly 

 as it is — was due to earlier manifestation on the part 

 of some of Mr. Darwin's friends of the feeling that 

 was afterwards expressed by Sir Charles Lyell in the 

 passage quoted above. I suppose the removal of the 

 my that was cut out in 1866 to be due partly to the 

 Gladstonian tendencies of Mr. Darwin's mind, which 

 would naturally make that particular my at all times 

 more or less offensive to him, and partly to the increase 

 of objection to it that must have ensued on the addition 

 of the "brief but imperfect" historical sketch in 

 1861 ; it is doubtless only by an oversight that this 

 particular my was not cut out in 1 861. The 

 stampede of 1869 was probably occasioned by the ap- 

 pearance in Germany of Professor Haeckel's " History 

 of Creation." This was published in 1868, and Mr. 

 Darwin no doubt foresaw that it would be translated 

 into English, as indeed it subsequently was. In 

 this book some account is given — very badly, but still 

 much more fully than by Mr. Darwin— of Lamarck's 

 .* Principle3 of Geology, vol ii, chap, xxxiv., ed. 1872. 



