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From Leonard Jenyns   4 January 1860

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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