From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
18 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Athenæum , 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5
Summary:
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project