I believe I can say this of myself with truth, and I am
absolutely sure that it is true of you."--DARWIN to Wallace.
"To have thus inspired and retained this friendly feeling,
notwithstanding our many differences of opinion, I feel to be one
of the greatest honours of my life."--WALLACE to Darwin.
"I think the way he [Wallace] carries on controversy is perfectly
beautiful, and in future histories of science the Wallace-Darwin
episode will form one of the few bright points among rival
claimants."--ERASMUS DARWIN to his niece, Henrietta Darwin, 1871.
The first eight letters from Darwin to Wallace were found amongst the
latter's papers, carefully preserved in an envelope on the outside of
which he had written the words reproduced on the next page. Neither
Wallace's part of this correspondence, nor the original MS. of his essay
"On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original
Type," which he sent to Darwin from Ternate, has been discovered. But
these eight letters from Darwin explain themselves and reveal the inner
story of the independent discovery of the theory of Natural Selection.
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