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To Herbert Spencer 13 November 1875
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CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.
It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10258 |
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- … 1864–7 , 1: 444–5, and Correspondence vol. 14, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 July 1866 ). CD had subscribed to the Jamaica Committee fund to support the prosecution of Edward John Eyre , the former governor of Jamaica, for his role in the suppression of an uprising of the ex-slave population (see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Herbert Spencer, 2 November 1866 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, …
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