something with eagle eye; but ten lines from the end I found a
sentence which corresponded with one six pages from the end of the
English translation. After this there could be little doubt that the
whole of these last six English pages were spurious matter. What
little doubt remained was afterwards removed by my finding that they
had no place in any part of the genuine article. I looked for the
passage about Coleridge's using the word "Darwinising"; it was not to
be found in the German. I looked for the piece I had quoted from
Buffon about rudimentary organs; but there was nothing of it, nor
indeed any reference to Buffon. It was plain, therefore, that the
article which Mr. Darwin had given was not the one he professed to be
giving. I read Mr. Darwin's preface over again to see whether he
left himself any loophole. There was not a chink or cranny through
which escape was possible. The only inference that could be drawn
was either that some one had imposed upon Mr. Darwin, or that Mr.
Darwin, although it was not possible to suppose him ignorant of the
interpolations that had been made, nor of the obvious purpose of the
concluding sentence, had nevertheless palmed off an article which had
been added to and made to attack "Evolution, Old and New," as though
it were the original article which appeared before that book was
written. I could not and would not believe that Mr. Darwin had
condescended to this. Nevertheless, I saw it was necessary to sift
the whole matter, and began to compare the German and the English
articles paragraph by paragraph.

On the first page I found a passage omitted from the English, which
with great labour I managed to get through, and can now translate as
follows:-