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To St G. J. Mivart 26 January [1871]
Summary
CD apologises for having thought that StGJM’s religious feelings had led him to feel personal animosity towards him. [See 7454.]
He remembers having thought and written that belief in evolution is infinitely more important for science than belief in Natural Selection. For his own part he would have felt little interest in evolution apart from the explanation "in a general manner" of how each organism is so adapted to its conditions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1871] |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459A |
From St G. J. Mivart 26 January 1871
Summary
Is glad CD does not believe he is biased by an odium theologicum. Comments on the first volume of Descent. Is convinced of the truth of evolution, but believes natural selection plays only a secondary role and that man is fundamentally different from the rest of creation.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7458 |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
