Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].
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Has returned letter to Caird and dispatched corrected letter to Hooker [11406] [concerning potato experiments].
Sends JDH a letter he has written supporting James Torbitt’s potato trials.
T. H. Farrer and James Caird think it would be less trouble to get subscription from rich agriculturists than from Government. CD thinks it utopian to hope to raise variety of potatoes from seed; must be propagated from tubers.
The strongest argument for the existence of God is the intuitive feeling that there must have been an intelligent beginner of the universe; "but then comes the doubt and difficulty whether such intuitions are trustworthy". CD is forced to leave the problem insoluble. "No man who does his duty has anything to fear, and may hope for whatever he earnestly desires."