nature to preserve the typical medium of the race.") It includes
speculations (which he perhaps will modify) so rash, and without a single
fact in support, that had I advanced them he or other reviewers would have
hit me very hard. I am sorry to say that I have no "consolatory view" on
the dignity of man. I am content that man will probably advance, and care
not much whether we are looked at as mere savages in a remotely distant
future. Many thanks for your last note.

Yours affectionately,
C. DARWIN.

I have received, in a Manchester newspaper, rather a good squib, showing
that I have proved "might is right," and therefore that Napoleon is right,
and every cheating tradesman is also right.


CHARLES DARWIN TO W.B. CARPENTER.
Down, January 6th [1860]?

My dear Carpenter,

I have just read your excellent article in the 'National.' It will do
great good; especially if it becomes known as your production. It seems to
me to give an excellently clear account of Mr. Wallace's and my views. How
capitally you turn the flanks of the theological opposers by opposing to
them such men as Bentham and the more philosophical of the systematists! I
thank you sincerely for the EXTREMELY honourable manner in which you
mention me. I should have liked to have seen some criticisms or remarks on
embryology, on which subject you are so well instructed. I do not think
any candid person can read your article without being much impressed with