If I then have any remarks worth sending, which is not very probable, I will write again.

I am greatly pleased to see how boldly you express your belief in evolution, in the preface.

I have sometimes thought that some of your countrymen have been a little timid in publishing their belief on this head, and have thus failed in aiding a good cause.
LETTER 305.

TO R.G.WHITEMAN.

Down, May 5th, 1881.
In the first edition of the "Origin," after the sentence ending with the words "...insects in the water," I added the following sentence:-- "Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by Natural Selection more and more aquatic in their structures and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale." (305/1.