[243] He had just completed a work on the subject at his death. Cp. Mackenzie, Hugh Miller, as cited, pp. 134–35, 146–47. [↑]
[244] Christianity and Judaism, pp. 256–57. [↑]
[245] See Charles Darwin’s Historical Sketch prefixed to the Origin of Species. [↑]
[246] Meding, as cited by Darwin, 6th ed. i, p. xv. Goethe seems to have had his general impulse from Kielmeyer, who also taught Cuvier. Virchow, Göthe als Naturforscher, 1861, Beilage x. [↑]
[247] Memoirs of Newton, i, 131. Cp. More Worlds than One, 1854, pp. vi, 226. [↑]
[248] See Darwin’s Sketch, as cited. [↑]
[249] Letter of March 16, 1845, in Life of Whewell, by Mrs. Stair Douglas, 2nd ed. 1882, pp. 318–19. If this statement be true as to Owen, he shuffled badly in his correspondence with the author of the Vestiges. See the Life of Sir Richard Owen, 1894, i, 251. [↑]
[250] Mackenzie, Hugh Miller, p. 185. [↑]