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From Charles Kingsley   18 November 1859

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Will judge CD’s book [Origin] free from two superstitions: the dogma of the permanent species and the need of an act of intervention to bring change.

Author:  Charles Kingsley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1859
Classmark:  DAR 98: B7–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2534

To W. B. Carpenter   18 November [1859]

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Comments on WBC’s response to the Origin. Hopes he will review it. Acceptance will depend more on men like WBC, with well-established reputations, than on his own writings.

"Lyell thinks the chapter on the Imperfection of the Geological Record not exaggerated."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:  18 Nov [1859]
Classmark:  DAR 261.6: 1 (EH 88205918)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2535