This has been brought vividly before my mind by having just read most of the proofs of Lubbock's Address for York (307/3.

Lord Avebury was President of the British Association in 1881.), in which he will attempt to review the progress of all branches of science for the last fifty years.
I entirely agree with what you say about "chance," except in relation to the variations of organic beings having been designed; and I imagine that Mr.Graham must have used "chance" in relation only to purpose in the origination of species.

This is the only way I have used the word chance, as I have attempted to explain in the last two pages of my "Variation under Domestication." On the other hand, if we consider the whole universe, the mind refuses to look at it as the outcome of chance--that is, without design or purpose.

The whole question seems to me insoluble, for I cannot put much or any faith in the so-called intuitions of the human mind, which have been developed, as I cannot doubt, from such a mind as animals possess; and what would their convictions or intuitions be worth?
There are a good many points on which I cannot quite follow Mr.Graham.
With respect to your last discussion, I dare say it contains very much truth; but I cannot see, as far as happiness is concerned, that it can apply to the infinite sufferings of animals--not only those of the body, but those of the mind--as when a mother loses her offspring or a male his female.

If the view does not apply to animals, will it suffice for man?
But you may well complain of this long and badly-expressed note in my dreadfully bad handwriting.
The death of my brother Erasmus is a very heavy loss to all of us in this family.