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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 November 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 128
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Darwin Family Letters
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Mentions receipt of EH’s History of creation [1876].
Describes his own work on cross- and self-fertilised flowers. Subject bears on the very principle of life.
CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.
It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.
Gives an example of the power of reasoning shown by dogs.
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