From Leonard Jenyns 4 January 1860
Summary
Has read Origin and considers it one of the most valuable contributions to present-day natural history. Believes, however, that there are difficulties in the extensive generalisation that all taxonomic groups are related by descent. Does not understand how Genesis is to be read unless at least the human species was created independently of other animals. Cannot bring himself to the idea that man’s reasoning and moral sense could have been obtained from "irrational progenitors": the "Divine Image" is the unsurmountable distinction between man and brutes. [See 2644.]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1860 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/5: 95–103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2637A |
To Leonard Jenyns 7 January [1860]
Summary
Thanks LJ for his letter on Origin. Finds LJ agrees with him more than CD had expected.
Discusses problems of geological record, single primordial form, and man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 7 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2644 |
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Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |