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DCP-LETT-8380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
10 June [1872]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80)
Summary:

Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]

and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."

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DCP-LETT-9019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
21 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/322)
Summary:

Thanks for copy of HS’s Descriptive sociology [1873].

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DCP-LETT-10258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Herbert Spencer
Date:
13 Nov 1875
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/111)
Summary:

CD cannot remember whether he was on the committee of the Jamaica affair [for prosecution of Governor Eyre in 1866] but he subscribed £10.

It is curious and amusing how positivists hate all men of science, possibly because their prophet [Comte] made laughable and gigantic blunders in predicting the course of science.

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