[VadeRetro]

Do you know what these words mean?

I shd prefer the Part or Volume not to be dedicated to me (though I thank you for the intended honour) as this implies to a certain extent my approval of the general publication, about which I know nothing...

[CarolinaGuitarman]

And the important thing too is that the book Darwin declined to have dedicated to him was not Kapital, but a book called *The Student Darwin*. There was never an attempt by Marx to have Kapital dedicated to Darwin.

[Fester Chugabrew]

They mean Darwin was smart enough to weasel his way out of directly endorsing a controversial publication. Some might call it "testifying inconsistently."

[eleni121]

The old fogey writes this:

"...yet it appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; & freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follow from the advance of science." What a sneaky conniver! Get it?