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From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 102
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
Frederic William Harmer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 103
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project