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DCP-LETT-10258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
25 Nov [1858]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/41)
Summary:

Thanks for HS’s Essays: [scientific, political, and speculative, vol. 1 (1858)]. Admires his general argument for the development theory.

CD is preparing an abstract on change of species. He treats subject as a naturalist, not from a general point of view. Otherwise he might have quoted HS’s argument to great advantage.

CD particularly liked articles on music and style. Expression is a favourite topic with CD. Agrees all expression is biological.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
2 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/47)
Summary:

Has prepared a historical sketch [of writers on origin of species] for foreign editions of Origin. It includes HS. He was too ill to provide it for the 1st ed.

Sorry Murray has not sent HS his copy of Origin, as he was instructed.

Huxley will put CD and E. A. Darwin down for HS’s gigantic [publishing] programme. Suggests Dr Drysdale be approached about it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3126

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

DCP-LETT-8380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
10 June [1872]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80)
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]

and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
21 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/322)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of HS’s Descriptive sociology [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1501

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Wellesley Rothman
Date:
9 June 1843
Source of text:
University of London Library MS AL 49a
Summary:

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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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