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Mr. Howorth on Darwinism

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WILL you allow me to reply to the various letters which appeared in your last number in answer to one from me? I gratefully welcome their general courteousness. Postponing the consideration of Mr. Wallace's letter, I come to Dr. Lionel Beale, the relevancy of whose arguments, and especially of the lugubrious moral attached to them, I fail to understand. It seems to me to be so incoherent and rhetorical that it is far beyond the reach of reply.

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HOWORTH, H. Mr. Howorth on Darwinism. Nature 4, 240–242 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004240b0

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