44 Unconscious Memory 



its place being taken by a much longer passage which had 

 no place in the English. A little farther on I was amused 

 at coming upon the following, and at finding it wholly 

 transformed in the supposed accurate translation : — 



" How must this early and penetrating explanation of 

 rudimentary organs have affected the grandson when he 

 read the poem of his ancestor ! But indeed the biological 

 remarks of this accurate observer in regard to certain definite 

 natural objects must have produced a still deeper impression 

 upon him, pointing, as they do, to questions which have 

 attained so great a prominence at the present day ; such as. 

 Why is any creature anywhere such as we actually see it, 

 and nothing else ? Why has such and such a plant poisonous 

 juices ? Why has such and such another thorns ? Why have 

 birds and fishes light-coloured breasts and dark backs, and. 

 Why does every creature resemble the one from which it 

 sprung ? "^ 



I will not weary the reader with further details as to 

 the omissions from and additions to the German text. 

 Let it suffice that the so-called translation begins on p. 131 

 and ends on p. 216 of Mr. Darwin's book. There is new 

 matter on each one of the pp. 132-139, whUe almost the 

 whole of pp. 147-152 inclusive, and the whole of pp. 211- 

 216 inclusive, are spurious — that is to say, not what they 

 purport to be, not translations from an article that was 

 published in February 1879, and before " Evolution, Old 

 and New," but interpolations not published till six months 

 after that book. 



Bearing in mind the contents of two of the added 

 passages and the tenor of the concluding sentence quoted 

 above,^ I could no longer doubt that the article had been 

 altered by the light of and with a view to " Evolution, 

 Old and New." 



The steps are perfectly clear. First Dr. Krause pub- 

 lished his article in Kosmos and my book was announced 

 (its purport being thus made obvious), both in the month 



' Kosmos, February 1879. p. 404. 

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