The bearer, Mr. Richard Hodgson, is a present staying in Jena as a student, and is desirous of having some introductions. Though you and I are not personally acquainted, yet I venture, in virtue of the links that exist between us, to respond to his request by giving him this letter of introduction to you. || He is a man of much ability & promises to be of great value in the cause of evolutionary philosophy. Already, in England, he has taken up the cudgels on my behalf, and given a severe castigation to a Hegelian who had been misrepresenting & perverting my views; and I believe his ambition is to hereafter make it his aim to further the spread of evolutionary || doctrines, especially in their relations to mental philosophy. You will, I think, do a service to the cause we both have at heart by giving him a hand, especially in the way of society.
