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PART 2

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My pencil notes alterations were intended to make passages clear to myself not for corrections or notes hints to you so do not mind them.

J D. Hooker

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Is the whole worth publishing? I do not promise to be guided by your judgment, but it will have great weight when in some year months time I reconsider subject.

Have I fairly stated the more important objections in abstract: to have given all in full would have made my now tedious discussion intolerably [illeg] tedious.

I shd be very glad to hear any criticisms in detail; & you & Watson have done me an enormous service in drawing my attention to & enumerating the numerous objections but what I want you to do now is, in as candid a frame as you can, to balance all the vague probabilities on both sides of question.—

Remember that my book is written for geologists & zoologists, so that on some points I daresay my remarks may appear to you trivial.

I have discussed some extra hypothetical points chiefly for sake, here & in other places to show what points ought to be considered in theory of the descent of species, rather than in hopes of throwing light on the many points of present inextricable confusion.—