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To St G. J. Mivart   21 April [1871]

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"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  St George Jackson Mivart
Date:  21 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7703A

From St G. J. Mivart   23 April 1871

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Feels their conflict lies in the field of philosophy rather than in that of physical science. Regrets that they differ so widely.

Author:  St George Jackson Mivart
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 171: 194
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7710
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