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DCP-LETT-5306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
14 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Summary:

Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.

Sends copy of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Everest Boole
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 143: 121
Summary:

Is unable to answer her questions about religious implications of natural selection, but would prefer to believe that suffering in world is due to natural events.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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