Personally he is extremely kind towards me; but he evidently in the following number means to blow me into atoms.

He does not in the least appreciate the difference in my views and Lamarck's, as explaining adaptation, the principle of divergence, the increase of dominant groups, and the almost necessary extinction of the less dominant and smaller groups, etc.
LETTER 105.

TO C.LYELL.Down, June 17th [1860].
One word more upon the Deification (105/1.

"If we confound 'Variation' or 'Natural Selection' with such creational laws, we deify secondary causes or immeasurably exaggerate their influence" (Lyell, "The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man, with Remarks on Theories on the Origin of Species by Variation," page 469, London, 1863).

See Letter 131.) of Natural Selection: attributing so much weight to it does not exclude still more general laws, i.e.the ordering of the whole universe.