Down, February 22, 1882<P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>"My dear Dr. Ogle, -- You must let me thank you for the pleasure which the introduction to the Aristotle book has given me.  I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.
From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was.  Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.  How very curious, also, his ignorance on some points, as on muscles as the means of movement.  I am glad that you have explained in so probable a manner some of the grossest mistakes attributed to him.  I never realized, before reading your book, to what an enormous summation of labour we owe even our common knowledge.  I wish old Aristotle could know what a grand Defender of the Faith he had found in you.  Believe me, my dear Dr. Ogle,

						Yours very sincerely,
								Ch. Darwin
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<CITE>From : Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. 2.  Appleton and Co.  New York.  1887)</CITE>