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DCP-LETT-2808

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (14)
Summary:

Bitter and incessant attacks on the Origin.

Any truth in it has been saved only by a small body of men like Lyell, AG, Hooker, and Huxley.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
22 May [1860]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (26 and 37a)
Summary:

Opinions and reviews of Origin.

CD’s view on design in nature; although he does not believe in the necessity of design, he finds it hard to conclude that everything is the result of "brute force".

Comments on Owen’s review of Origin [Edinburgh Rev. 111 (1860): 487–532].

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