From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
3 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110-1112)
Summary:
Thanks JF for copy of Cosmic philosophy [1874].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112)
Summary:
Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].
Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
19 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (CB 387)
Summary:
Asks FW to thank F. P. Cobbe for her liberal offer, but the differences [between Descent and Cobbe’s review "Darwinism in morals", Theol. Rev. 33 (1871): 167–92] are too fundamental to be reconciled.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
13 Aug 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36191)
Summary:
CD regrets that he feels large parts of Krause’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin] must be omitted. Gives his criticisms and his plan for condensed publication of his own article, with only parts of EK’s. If EK is unwilling to change, CD will publish his article privately. It is manifest that EK can publish his essay in its extended form in Germany if he wishes to do so.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
