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early as 1844, he had collected his material and 

 worked out his theory, but had not published 

 it to the world, although it had been commu- 

 nicated to some of his friends. In 1858 he re- 

 ceived a memoir from Mr. Wallace, who was 

 then studying the natural history of the Malay 

 Archipelago. From that memoir he learnt that 

 Mr. Wallace had " arrived at almost exactly the 

 same conclusions as I (he himself) have on the 

 origin of species." This led to the publishing 

 his book on that subject contemporaneously 

 with Mr. Wallace's memoir. There has been 

 no jealousy or rivalry between these gentle- 

 men. Mr. Wallace gracefully acknowledges 

 the priority of Mr. Darwin's claim, and attrib- 

 utes to him the credit of having elaborated 

 and sustained it in a way to secure for it uni- 

 versal attention. These facts are mentioned in 

 order to show the competency of Mr. Wallace 

 as a witness as to the true character of Dar- 

 winism. 



Mr. Wallace, in " The Theory of Natural Se- 

 lection," devotes a chapter to the consideration 

 of the objections urged by the Duke of Argyll, 

 in his work on the " Reign of Law," against 

 that theory. Those objections are principally 

 two : first, that design necessarily implies an 



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