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To W. D. Fox   4 September [1850]

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Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".

Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  4 Sept [1850]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1352

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