314 THE 'ORIGIN OF SPECIES.' [i860. 



1. feared it was bigotry, and I am glad to see that he goes a 

 little way (very much further than I supposed) with us. ... 



I was not sorry for a natural opportunity of writing to 

 Harvey, just to show that I was not piqued at his turning 

 me and my book into ridicule,* not that I think it was a pro- 

 ceeding which I deserved, or worthy of him. It delights me 

 that you are interested in watching the progress of opinion 

 on the change of Species ; I feared that you were weary of 

 the subject ; and therefore did not send A. Gray's letters. 

 The battle rages furiously in the United States. Gray 

 says he was preparing a speech, which would take i\ hours to 

 deliver, and which he " fondly hoped would be a stunner." 

 He is fighting splendidly, and there seem to have been 

 many discussions with Agassiz and others at the meetings. 

 Agassiz pities me much at being so deluded. As for the 

 progress of opinion, I clearly see that it will be excessively 

 slow, almost as slow as the change of species. ... I am 

 getting wearied at the storm of hostile reviews and hardly any 

 useful. . 



C. Darwin to C. Lyell. 



Down, Friday night [June ist, 1860]. 



.... Have you seen Hopkins f in the new 'Fraser'? 

 the public will, I should think, find it heavy. He [is] dead 



* A " serio-comic squib," read 1827, and afterwards became an 



before the ' Dublin University Esquire Bedell of the University. 



Zoological and Botanical Associa- He was chiefly known as a mathe- 



tion,' Feb. 17, 1860, and privately matical " coach," and was eminently 



printed. My father's presentation successful in the manufacture of 



copy is inscribed, " With the writer's Senior Wranglers. Nevertheless 



repentance, Oct. 1860." Mr. Stephen says (' Life of Fawcett,' 



t William Hopkins died in 1866, p. 26) that he "was conspicuous 



"in his seventy-third year." He for inculcating " a "liberal view of 



began life with a farm in Suffolk, the studies of the place. He en- 



but ultimately entered, compara- deavoured to stimulate a philoso- 



tively late in life, at Peterhouse, phical interest in the mathematical 



Cambridge ; he took his degree in sciences, instead of simply rousing 



