To G. J. Romanes 28 July [1874]1
Abinger Hall | Wotton Surrey (Post Town) | (Gomshall Station) S.E.R.
⟨J⟩uly 28th
Dear Sir
I write one line to acknowledge & thank you for the letters.—2
I have so poor a metaphysical head that Mr Spencer’s terms of equilibration &c always bother me & make everything less clear3
yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from G. J. Romanes, 24 July 1874.
See letter from G. J. Romanes, 10 July 1874 and n. 5. Spencer had substituted the terms direct and indirect equilibration for adaptation and natural selection.
Summary
Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9569
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Abinger Hall
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.446)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9569,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9569.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 22
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