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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
From:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 152
Summary:

Thanks for reply to query. Asked E. Haeckel same question and his answer agreed with CD’s. Haeckel disbelieves in the supernatural. What does CD think?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
David W. Bowerman (private collection)
Summary:

NvM’s questions cannot be answered fully. "Science has nothing to do with Christ, except in so far as the habit of scientific research makes a man cautious in admitting evidence. For myself, I do not believe that there has ever been any Revelation."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project