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those whom he most vehemently attacks, and to fly at 

 the scientific throat of those to whom he is personally 

 most attached; he should be neither grateful for a 

 favourable review nor displeased at a hostile one ; his 

 literary and scientific life should be something as far 

 apart as possible from his social ; it is thus, at least, 

 alone that any one will be able to keep his eye single 

 for facts, and their legitimate inferences. We have 

 seen Professor Mivart lately taken to task by Mr. 

 Eomanes for having said * that Mr. Darwin was singu- 

 larly sensitive to criticism, and made it impossible 

 for Professor Mivart to continue friendly personal re- 

 lations with him after he had ventured to maintain 

 his own opinion. I see no reason to question Pro- 

 fessor Mivart's accuracy, and find what he has said to 

 agree alike with my own personal experience of Mr. 

 Darwin, and with all the light that his works throw 

 upon his character. 



The most substantial apology that can be made 

 for his attempt to claim the theory of descent with 

 modification is to be found in the practice of Lamarck, 

 Mr. Patrick Matthew, the author of the " Vestiges of 

 Creation," and Mr. Hetbert Spencer, and, again, in the 

 total absence of complaint which this practice met 

 with. If Lamarck might write the " Philosophie 

 Zoologique " without, so far as I remember, one word 

 of reference to Buffon, and without being complained 

 of, why might not Mr. Darwin write the " Origin 

 of Species " without more than a passing allusion to 

 Lamarck ? Mr. Patrick Matthew, again, though writ- 



* Fortnightly Review, Jan, 1886, 



