Leonhard! 



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Aug. 7, 1862. 



In contrast to Darwin, whom he mentions only as befuddledrii 



he maintains, to have examined the battle for existence raore care - 



fully/ holding fast to the eternity of Speeles (the plan of creation)),, 

 gradual 



and declares that the /f ormationr of types not caused by local, exter- 

 nall developments, but that new specie^ form throughr the pathr of 

 group-f orraation ( verbatim: : society-f ormation, E.D..) and throughr re- 

 strictedr cröss pollinatiom .Thus, this is in contrast with the exis- 

 ting-, ascending? characterr og grOÖp-f orrnatiorr, . , and has be err pronourr - 

 ced already by Kruse (Krause ? E.D. ) in his "Urbild der* Menschheit** 5 

 (Beginning of Humanity) 1810, .and pr overr concerni ng the types of fa- 

 milies, tribes, , people , and races.. Tt is beautiful', that 4 Nagelt has 

 come to the same law entirely independentlyv in the treatment of the 

 3 0^ Fleureria (???? E.D. ). IT mentione'd this in the Jüly number of this 



year of the magazine Lotos. - 



of_ a species 



One and the same f orm/can. exist 4 as a bastard of two species 

 growing there, or as type of another species, but independent, local!, . 

 created tej through one-sidedness of the groupr (verbat im: : society, E. D. ) 



Even Krause distingui shes and so does Nageli species, whichr irr 

 their majority form a total contrast, and other species, which, not 

 being bastards (or, at leat, don't have to be ) must be designated 

 aecording to their appearance as form« species of a number of species,, 

 rather Interim' steps or interim ri members of these principal species». 



This letter goes by opportunity to the coast and is just being 

 picked up; I must close, greeting you and all your loved ones,and we 

 hope that you will come next year again over here. 

 Your old friend v. Leonhard! 



(translated from German Script by Edgar Denison, Jan, 1989) 



