The Question at Issue 99 
way, was “‘ Charles Robert,” and not, as would appear 
from the title-pages of his books, “‘ Charles” only), Mr. A. R. 
Wallace, and their supporters are the apostles of luck, 
while Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, followed, more or less 
timidly, by the Geoffroys and by Mr. Herbert Spencer, and 
very timidly indeed by the Duke of Argyll, preach cunning 
as the most important means of organic modification. 
Notse.—It appears from ‘‘Samuel Butler: A Memoir” (II, 29) 
that Butler wrote to his father (Dec. 1885) about a passage in 
Horace (near the beginning of the First Epistle of the First Book)— 
Nunc in Aristippi furtim praecepta relabor, 
Et mihi res, non me rebus subjungere conor. 
On the preceding page he is adapting the second of these two 
verses to his own purposes.—H. F. J. 
