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From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 163: 33
Summary:

AE, philosophy professor, is disposed to accept natural selection, but argues that it lacks direction. Suggests that direction would be given if one assumed the appearance of multiple advantageous traits in a single individual. Cites Herbert Spencer, Rudolf Virchow, Claude Bernard, and Carl Vogt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
Date:
[before 1 July 1877]
Source of text:
Darwin Library–CUL: tipped into Espinas 1877
Summary:

As AE hardly admits evolution, they view all subjects differently.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Victor (Alfred) Espinas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1877
Source of text:
DAR 163: 34
Summary:

On painful state of CD’s reception in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project