From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
A. Gapitche
Date:
24 Feb 1880
Source of text:
ML 2: 444–5
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project