To H. N. Ridley 28 November 1878
Summary
Does not think sermon by E. B. Pusey [see 11763] is worth a reply. HNR may quote CD as saying that Pusey is "mistaken in imagining that I wrote the Origin with any relation whatever to Theology". Pusey’s attack will be powerless to retard belief in evolution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Nicholas Ridley |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1878 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Letters to H. N. Ridley CLE–GUR, 1878–1951, HNR/2/1/2: f. 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11766 |
To J. B. Innes 27 November [1878]
Summary
CD disappointed in Pusey’s sermon against evolution [Un-science, not science, adverse to faith (1878), sermon read by H. P. Liddon at St Mary’s, Oxford, on 3 Nov 1878]. Does not agree that religion and science can be kept as distant as Pusey desires. Geology and biology must deal with history of earth and of man. But that is no reason for bitter hostility.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11763 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Ridley, H. N. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Ridley, H. N. | (1) |
