If the improvement of the creation-by-variation doctrine is conceivable, it will be by unburthening your theory of Natural Selection, which at first sight seems overstrained--i.e., to account for too much.

I think, too, that some of your difficulties which you override by Natural Selection may give way before other explanations.

But, oh Lord! how little we do know and have known to be so advanced in knowledge by one theory.

If we thought ourselves knowing dogs before you revealed Natural Selection, what d--d ignorant ones we must surely be now we do know that law.
I hear you may be at the Club on Thursday.

I hope so.