states, with perfect justice, that Heraclitus has foreshadowed
some of the special peculiarities of Mr. Darwin's views. It is
indeed a very strange circumstance that the philosophy of the
great Ephesian more than adumbrates the two doctrines which have
played leading parts, the one in the development of Christian
dogma, the other in that of natural science. The former is the
conception of the Word [logos] which took its Jewish
shape in Alexandria, and its Christian form<4> in that Gospel
which is usually referred to an Ephesian source of some five
centuries later date; and the latter is that of the struggle for
existence. The saying that "strife is father and king of all"
[...], ascribed to Heraclitus, would be a not
inappropriate motto for the "Origin of Species."

I have referred only to Mr. Sully's article, because his
authority is quite sufficient for my purpose. But the
consultation of any of the more elaborate histories of Greek
philosophy, such as the great work of Zeller, for example, will
only bring out the same fact into still more striking
prominence. I have professed no "minute acquaintance" with
either Indian or Greek philosophy, but I have taken a great deal
of pains to secure that such knowledge as I do possess shall be
accurate and trustworthy.

In the third place, Mr. Gladstone appears to wish that I should
discuss with him the question whether the nebular hypothesis is,
or is not, confirmatory of the pentateuchal account of the
origin of things. Mr. Gladstone appears to be prepared to enter
upon this campaign with a light heart. I confess I am not, and
my reason for this backwardness will doubtless surprise Mr.