As you expected, I differ grievously from you, and I am
very sorry for it.
I can see no necessity for calling in an additional and proximate cause
in regard to Man. But the subject is too long for a letter.
I have been particularly glad to read your discussion, because I am now
writing and thinking much about Man.
I hope that your Malay book sells well. I was extremely pleased with the
article in the _Q.J. of Science_, inasmuch as it is thoroughly
appreciative of your work. Alas! you will probably agree with what the
writer says about the uses of the bamboo.
I hear that there is also a good article in the _Saturday Review_, but
have heard nothing more about it.--Believe me, my dear Wallace, yours
ever sincerely,
CH. DARWIN.
P.S.--I have had a baddish fall, my horse partly rolling over me; but I
am getting rapidly well.
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_9 St. Mark's Crescent, N.W. April 18, 1869._
Dear Darwin,--I am very glad you think I have done justice to Lyell, and
have also well "exposed" (as a Frenchman would say) Natural Selection.
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