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the “ few beings which lived ” before the deposition of the 
Silurian ; this penultimate scene finally yielding to the resti- 
tution of the renowned Creator’s breath (“ Origin of Species,” 
1st ed., pp. 125, 191, 126, and the ‘ conclusion ’). 
Will one who dare deny Mr. Darwin’s reticence be dis- 
mayed by an anachronism ? Not so. In “ Critiques and 
Addresses ” (xii.) Mr. Wallace is made to pose as one of 
“ Mr. Darwin’s critics,” notwithstanding the circumstance 
that his “ contributions ” were incorporated in book-form 
in 1870, the year before Mr. Darwin’s “ Descent of Man ” 
was published. He may have been a “ critic ” of the 
“ Origin of Species ” ! 
Concerning natural selection and Dr. Mivart’s opinion 
that that theory is associated more exclusively with Mr, 
Darwin’s name on account of Mr. Wallace’s reticence, Prof. 
Huxley, after pronouncing the opinion “ simply ridiculous,” 
remarks that “ if there was any reticence at all in the 
matter, it was Mr. Darwin’s reticence during the long ” 
time he postponed publishing the “Origin of Species” — 
that is, till he availed himself of the circumstance that 
Mr. Wallace communicated his discovery to the Linnean 
Society through Mr. Darwin himself. 
Whether Mr. Darwin was prolonging his reticence for the 
purpose of accumulating factual evidence, or whether he 
deemed “ the masses not yet ripe ” for the promulgation of 
his theory, Prof. Huxley does not speculate ; nor need we 
here, for the expediency of reticence or aggressive candour, 
the propriety of pious frauds and their Darwinian ana- 
logues, concern us here as little as the “ Nature” Memo- 
rial Notice. 
