From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 179–180
Summary:
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project