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Prus’s reception of Darwin’s ideas took many years to last. In the 70-ties the columnist was fighting for recognition of the naturalist’s theses and against spreading superstitions. In the 80-ties he situated Darwin in the circle of progress promoters. In the 90-ties, in recognition of his services for expanding people’s knowledge, he inserted him in his peculiar classification in the sphere of domination of perfectness ideal. Prus regarded fight for living as an undeniable fact. However, he emphasized another and more common fact both in nature and in social life, i.e. the existence of mutual exchange of services. The writer owes Darwin, among other things, enriching his technique of describing a character on the basis of theories concerning physiological response to different stimuli.