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From:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 151
Summary:

NvM is 17 years old. Confused by reading CD’s works and Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. Can a believer in CD’s theory believe in God?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
8 Apr 1879
Source of text:
Dr Mirko Majer (private collection)
Summary:

Answers NAvM’s letter for CD. CD considers evolution is quite consistent with belief in God, but NvM must remember people mean different things by God.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project