To Mary Jung 11 January 18791
Down
[…] Permit me to advise you to try not to be troubled about the differences between ecclesiastics & scientific men.2 Search for the truth, & then your conscience will be at ease. In the course of time ecclesiastics have always managed to make their conclusions somehow to harmonise with ascertained truths, which they at first vehemently & ignorantly opposed […]
Footnotes
The date and the address, Down, are given in the sale catalogue.
Summary
Suggests MJ does not worry about the differences in opinion between ecclesiastics and scientists.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11825F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Mary Jung
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 681, 28–9 June 2005)
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11825F,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11825F.xml
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