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5. Because he understood my arrangement of the subject 
better than yours — at least so he said, some 18 months ago. 
All this is no reason for putting me in the same category 
with you as propounder of the doctrine, which his work 
seems to me too much to do. However, I have not alluded 
to this subject to him, nor should I, if he had been as careful 
never to mention my name, as Huxley would seem to be, not 
that he really is so in the least I am sure. 
To this Darwin rephed (March 17) : 
What a candid honest fellow you are, too candid and 
too honest. I do not believe one man in ten thousand 
would have thought and said what you say about your own 
work in your letter. I told Lyell that nothing pleased me 
more in his work than the conspicuous position in which 
he very properly placed you. 
