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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[24 February 1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.6: 12
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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No one can prove death is inevitable, but the evidence in favour of this belief is overwhelming. It is in the highest degree improbable that man should cease to follow the general law of evolution, and evolution implies successive generations, which implies death.