WCP4144

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My dear Galton¹

I am very sorry to hear you are still unwell — I cannot see that what you say makes any difference in what my view of your theory. "Mould" I took in the ordinary sense of meaning "shape" or "give shape to". That any "species" sh[oul]^d be formed without the aid of natural selection, or that any "specific characters" in the true sense of the term, should be non-adaptive, seems to me quite impossible & even (to me) unthinkable.

A.R.W. [signature]