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If we accept the doctrines of individual creations and ideal types, we must believe that the Deity acted "with no other apparent motive than to suggest to us, by every one of the observable facts, that the ideal types are nothing other than the bonds of a lineal descent.") is new to me.
All strike me as very clear, and, considering small space, you have chosen your lines of reasoning excellently. The few last pages are awfully powerful, in my opinion. Sunday Morning .-- The above was written last night in the enthusiasm of the moment, and now--this dark, dismal Sunday morning--I fully agree with what I said. I am very sorry to hear about the failures in the graft experiments, and not from your own fault or ill-luck.
Trollope in one of his novels gives as a maxim of constant use by a brickmaker--"It is dogged as does it" (281/6.
"Tell 'ee what, Master Crawley;--and yer reverence mustn't think as I means to be preaching; there ain't nowt a man can't bear if he'll only be dogged.
You go whome, Master Crawley, and think o' that, and may be it'll do ye a good yet.
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