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DCP-LETT-13708

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 13
Summary:

Asks for CD’s opinion on certain theistic ideas. If spontaneous generation from inorganic material is denied, then life must be derived from some eternal being.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13711

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
28 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 146: 335
Summary:

Comments on James Geikie’s ["Intercrossing of erratics", Scottish Naturalist 6 (1882): 193–200, 241–54]. Believes JG underrates importance of floating ice in explaining drift deposits.

Comments on origin of life and natural theology.

Recommends William Graham’s The creed of science [1881].

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