Subsequently to Mr. Chambers' protest, and not till, as I have said, six thousand copies of the "Origin of Species" had been issued, the sentence complained of by Mr. Chambers was expunged, but without a word of Retractation, and the passage which Mr. Allen thinks so generous was inserted into the "brief but imperfect" sketch which Mr. Darwin prefixed-after Mr. Chambers had been effectually snuffed out-to all subsequent editions of his "Origin of Species."
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
Let me say quite plainly, however, that the second one is no Retractation of the first.
"The Debit Account"
Oliver Onions
At a time of reconciliation between orthodox and "constitutionals," they required from the latter a complete and public Retractation of their recent errors.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose