i860.] DR. GRAY'S PAMPHLET. j^y 



C. Darwin to T. H. Huxley. 



Down, Dec. 2nd [i860]. 



.... I have got fairly sick of hostile reviews. Never- 

 theless, they have been of use in showing me when to expati- 

 ate a little and to introduce a few new discussions. Of course 

 I will send you a copy of the new edition. 



I entirely agree with you, that the difficulties on my 

 notions are terrific, yet having seen what all the Reviews have 

 said against me, I have far more confidence in the general 

 truth of the doctrine than I formerly had. Another thing 

 gives me confidence, viz. that some who went half an inch 

 with me now go further, and some who were bitterly opposed 

 are now less bitterly opposed. And this makes me feel a 

 little disappointed that you are not inclined to think the 

 general view in some slight degree more probable than you 

 did at first. This I consider rather ominous. Otherwise I 

 should be more contented with your degree of belief. I can 

 pretty plainly see that, if my view is ever to be generally 

 adopted, it will be by young men growing up and replacing 

 the old workers, and then young ones finding that they can 

 group facts and search out new lines of investigation better 

 on the notion of descent, than on that of creation. But 

 forgive me for running on so egotistically. Living so solitary 

 as I do, one gets to think in a silly manner of one's own 

 work. 



Ever yours very sincerely, 



C. Darwin. 



C. Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 



Down, December nth [i860]. 

 I heard from A. Gray this morning; at my sug- 

 gestion he is going to reprint the three ' Atlantic ' articles as a 

 pamphlet, and send 250 copies to England, for which I intend 

 to pay half the cost of the whole edition, and shall give away. 



