From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
5 May [1863]
Source of text:
Athenæum , 9 May 1863, p. 617
Summary:
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project