From:
Nicolaas Dirk Doedes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 200
Summary:
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Two students express their gratitude and admiration.
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
The impossibility of conceiving that the universe arose through chance is the chief argument for the existence of God, but CD has never been able to decide whether this is an argument of real value. Safest to believe that the subject is beyond man’s intellect, "but man can do his duty".
Debates the existence of God.
Thanks them for their kind letter and interest in his work. Sends photograph.