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From:
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 279
Summary:

Herbert Spencer, though not the scientific thinker he sees himself to be, was extremely important in conditioning the generation’s acceptance of evolution. Compares Spencer and Robert Chambers as teachers, rather than discoverers, of new ideas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project