My dear M^r. Darwin

My thanks for your most interesting letter.¹

Sex—you will find—plays the part in the real ground of all creeds. It is the primæval fact w^h. has to be explained, or mis-explained, somehow. I c^d write volumes on this. I may write one little one some day—²

As you say—the plain fact that man bears the evidence of a former hermaphrodite type are as indisputable—as they are carefully ignored—³

The whole question will have to be reconsidered by us—or by some other wiser race—in the next few Centuries.— & you will be esteemed then as a prophet.

Yours ever sincerely | C Kingsley

I have found actually a Darwinian Marchioness!!!!!⁴ So even the Swells of the World are beginning to believe in you. The extreme Radical press is staying off from you, because you may be made a Tory & an Aristocrat of.⁵ So goes the foolish ignorant world— It will go, believing & disbelieving not according to facts, but to convenience. But do you keep yourself—(as you are) “unspotted from the world” as the good book bids all good men do⁶—& then 500 years hence, men will know what you have done for them.