"Mr. Dallas has undertaken the translation, and his scientific
reputation, together with his knowledge of German, is a guarantee for
its accuracy."


I ought to have suspected inaccuracy where I found so much
consciousness of accuracy, but I did not. However this may be, Mr.
Darwin pins himself down with every circumstance of preciseness to
giving Dr. Krause's article as it appeared in Kosmos,--the whole
article, and nothing but the article. No one could know this better
than Mr. Darwin.

On the second page of Mr. Darwin's preface there is a small-type note
saying that my work, "Evolution, Old and New," had appeared since the
publication of Dr. Krause's article. Mr. Darwin thus distinctly
precludes his readers from supposing that any passage they might meet
with could have been written in reference to, or by the light of, my
book. If anything appeared condemnatory of that book, it was an
undesigned coincidence, and would show how little worthy of
consideration I must be when my opinions were refuted in advance by
one who could have no bias in regard to them.

Knowing that if the article I was about to read appeared in February,
it must have been published before my book, which was not out till
three months later, I saw nothing in Mr. Darwin's preface to complain
of, and felt that this was only another instance of my absurd vanity
having led me to rush to conclusions without sufficient grounds,--as
if it was likely, indeed, that Mr. Darwin should think what I had
said of sufficient importance to be affected by it. It was plain