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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1860
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/6: 108–9)
Summary:

Rejects CD’s comparison of natural selection with the architect of a building. The architect who plans and oversees construction should not be confused in his function with the wisest breeder. That would be to deify natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project