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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Graham
Date:
3 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 144: 345
Summary:

Praises WG’s Creed of science.

He disagrees that the existence of natural laws implies purpose, but his "inmost conviction" is that "the Universe is not the result of chance". But then has horrid doubt whether convictions of man’s mind, which has been developed from lower animals, are at all trustworthy.

Believes natural selection is doing more for progress of civilisation than WG admits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project