From:
Giuseppe Carboni
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 46
Summary:
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The Origin destroys philosophical foundations of religion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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The Origin destroys philosophical foundations of religion.
Sees his ideas on conscious and non-conscious intelligence are already in Murphy [J. J. Murphy, Habit and intelligence (1869)].
Encloses an extract from S. W. Baker’s The Albert N’yanza [1866] on the behaviour of the giraffe [See Origin, 6th ed., p. 178], and some references to Baker’s Nile tributaries [1867].