To Hugo Thiel 25 February 1869
Feb. 25. 1869.
Dear Sir.
On my return home after a short absence I found your very courteous note & pamplet and I hasten to thank you for both and for the very honourable mention which you make of my name—1 You will readily believe how much interested I am in observing that you apply to moral and social questions analogous views to those which I have used in regard to the modification of species— It did not occur to me formerly that my views could be extended to such widely different, and most important subjects. With much respect I beg leave to remain
Dear Sir. | Yours faithfully & obliged. | Charles Darwin.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Thanks for publication applying CD’s theory to moral and social questions.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-6634
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugo Thiel
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 148: 71
- Physical description
- C 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 6634,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-6634.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 17
