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From:
Mary Everest Boole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 249
Summary:

Asks whether CD believes natural selection obviates man’s ability to be guided by spiritual motives. Is anxious that his theory be compatible with her faith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Everest Boole
Date:
14 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 143: 121
Summary:

Is unable to answer her questions about religious implications of natural selection, but would prefer to believe that suffering in world is due to natural events.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Everest Boole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 250
Summary:

Thanks CD for reassurance that moral and religious faith are valid independently of his theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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