that some one besides myself, of whom I as yet knew nothing, had been
writing about the elder Darwin, and had taken much the same line
concerning him that I had done. It was for the benefit of this
person, then, that Dr. Krause's paragraph was intended. I returned
to a becoming sense of my own insignificance, and began to read what
I supposed to be an accurate translation of Dr. Krause's article as
it originally appeared, before "Evolution, Old and New," was
published.

On pp. 3 and 4 of Dr. Krause's part of Mr. Darwin's book (pp. 133 and
134 of the book itself), I detected a sub-apologetic tone which a
little surprised me, and a notice of the fact that Coleridge when
writing on Stillingfleet had used the word "Darwinising." Mr. R.
Garnett had called my attention to this, and I had mentioned it in
"Evolution, Old and New," but the paragraph only struck me as being a
little odd.

When I got a few pages farther on (p. 147 of Mr. Darwin's book), I
found a long quotation from Buffon about rudimentary organs, which I
had quoted in "Evolution, Old and New." I observed that Dr. Krause
used the same edition of Buffon that I did, and began his quotation
two lines from the beginning of Buffon's paragraph, exactly as I had
done; also that he had taken his nominative from the omitted part of
the sentence across a full stop, as I had myself taken it. A little
lower I found a line of Buffon's omitted which I had given, but I
found that at that place I had inadvertently left two pair of
inverted commas which ought to have come out, {41} having intended to
end my quotation, but changed my mind and continued it without
erasing the commas. It seemed to me that these commas had bothered
Dr. Krause, and made him think it safer to leave something out, for