impossible to say whether he is referring to the announcement of
"Evolution, Old and New"--in which case he means that the
arrangements for the translation of Dr. Krause's article were made
before the end of February 1879, and before any public intimation
could have reached him as to the substance of the book on which I was
then engaged--or to the advertisements of its being now published,
which appeared at the beginning of May; in which case, as I have said
above, Mr. Darwin and his friends had for some time had full
opportunity of knowing what I was about. I believe, however, Mr.
Darwin to intend that he remembered the arrangements having been made
before the beginning of May--his use of the word "announced," instead
of "advertised," being an accident; but let this pass.

Some time after Mr. Darwin's work appeared in November 1879, I got
it, and looking at the last page of the book, I read as follows:-


"They" (the elder Darwin and Lamarck) "explain the adaptation to
purpose of organisms by an obscure impulse or sense of what is
purpose-like; yet even with regard to man we are in the habit of
saying, that one can never know what so-and-so is good for. The
purpose-like is that which approves itself, and not always that which
is struggled for by obscure impulses and desires. Just in the same
way the beautiful is what pleases."


I had a sort of feeling as though the writer of the above might have
had "Evolution, Old and New," in his mind, but went on to the next
sentence, which ran -