From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Harmer
Date:
29 Aug 1872
Source of text:
Ipswich Museum (IPSMG: R.1924-134)
Summary:
Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Explains that William Penman Lyon has misquoted CD in Lyon [1871].
Has entered a newspaper controversy with W. P. Lyon [Homo versus Darwin (1872)] who ascribes to CD the saying "natural selection is a kind of god that never slumbers nor sleeps". FWH does not believe CD made this statement.
He became entrapped in the W. Lyon controversy by defending CD against Frederic Bateman of Norwich.
As a religious man, FWH wants to apologise for the attacks CD has suffered in the name of religion.