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US that we must trust him to a great extent, and 

 explained that the present book was only an instal- 

 ment of a larger work which, when it came out, would 

 make everything perfectly clear ; partly, again, because 



. the case for descent with modification, which was the 

 leading idea throughout the book, was so obviously 

 strong, but perhaps mainly because every one said Mr. 



. Darwin was so good, and so much less self -heeding 

 than other people ; besides, he had so " patiently " and 

 " carefully " accumulated " such a vast store of facts " 

 as no other naturalist, living or dead, had ever yet 

 even tried to get together ; he was so kind to us with 

 his, " May we not believe ? " and his " Have we any 

 right to infer that the Creator ? " &c. " Of course we 

 have not," we exclaimed, almost with tears in our 

 eyes — "not if you ask us in that way." Now that 

 we understand what it was that puzzled us in Mr. 

 Darwin's work we do not think highly either of the 

 chief offender, or of the accessories after the fact, many 

 of whom are trying to brazen the matter out, and on 

 a smaller scale to follow his example. 



