wrote: "Nature by making habit omnipotent and its effects
hereditary, has fitted the Fuegian for the climate and productions
of his country" (p. 237).

What is the secret of the long departure from the simple common-
sense view of the matter which he took when he was a young man? I
imagine simply what I have referred to in the preceding chapter,
over-anxiety to appear to be differing from his grandfather, Dr.
Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck.

I believe I may say that Mr. Darwin before he died not only admitted
the connection between memory and heredity, but came also to see
that he must readmit that design in organism which he had so many
years opposed. For in the preface to Hermann Muller's
"Fertilisation of Flowers," {63a} which bears a date only a very few
weeks prior to Mr. Darwin's death, I find him saying:- "Design in
nature has for a long time deeply interested many men, and though
the subject must now be looked at from a somewhat different point of
view from what was formerly the case, it is not on that account
rendered less interesting." This is mused forth as a general gnome,
and may mean anything or nothing: the writer of the letterpress
under the hieroglyph in Old Moore's Almanac could not be more
guarded; but I think I know what it does mean.

I cannot, of course, be sure; Mr. Darwin did not probably intend
that I should; but I assume with confidence that whether there is
design in organism or no, there is at any rate design in this
passage of Mr. Darwin's. This, we may be sure, is not a fortuitous
variation; and, moreover, it is introduced for some reason which
made Mr. Darwin think it worth while to go out of his way to