From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
23 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS. 791/51)
Summary:
HS put the case of selection strikingly and clearly in his article [Anonymous, "A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility", Westminster Rev. 57 (1852): 468–501]. Of CD’s numerous private critics only HS has rendered the philosophy fairly: his argument is an hypothesis that explains groups of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project