How I wrote " Life and Habit" 25 



hands December 4, 1877, but, according to trade custom, 

 being dated 1878. It will be seen that these five concluding 

 chapters were rapidly written, and this may account in 

 part for the directness with which I said anything I had 

 to say about Mr. Darwin ; partly this, and partly I felt I 

 was in for a penny and might as well be in for a pound. 

 I therefore wrote about Mr. Darwin's work exactly as I 

 should about any one else's, bearing in mind the inestimable 

 services he had undoubtedly — and must always be counted 

 to have — rendered to evolution, 



