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For my own part I am always glad, when differ- 

 ences in matter of opinion admit of being honestly 

 expressed without enmity, and still more so when, as 

 in the present case, this discussion leads to a basis of 

 friendship. I therefore thank you most heartily for 

 your letter, and remain yours very truly, 



G. J. EoMANES. 



P.S. — If you have not already happened to read a 

 book called ' A Candid Examination of Theism, ' I should 

 like to send you a copy. I wrote it six or seven years 

 ago and pubhshed it anonymously in 1878. I do not 

 now hold to all the arguments, nor should I express 

 myself so strongly on the argumentative force of the 

 remainder, but I should like you to read the book, in 

 order to show you how gladly I would enter your 

 camp if I could only see that it is on the side of 

 Truth. 



December 30, 1883. 



Dear Professor Gray, — I sent you my papers as a 

 return for those which you so kindly sent to me, and 

 for which I have written to thank you before. I 

 quite agree with your view, that the doctrine of the 

 human mind having been proximately evolved from 

 lower minds is not incompatible with the doctrine of 

 its having been due to a higher and supreme mind. 

 Indeed, I do not think the theory of evolution, even 

 if fully proved, would seriously affect the previous 

 standing of this more important question. 



The sorrow is, that this question is so far removed 

 from the reach of any trustworthy answer. Or, at 

 least, such is the sorrow if that answer when it comes 



