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To Mary Jung   11 January 18791

Down

[…] Permit me to advise you to try not to be troubled about the differences between ecclesiastics & scientific men.2 Search for the truth, & then your conscience will be at ease. In the course of time ecclesiastics have always managed to make their conclusions somehow to harmonise with ascertained truths, which they at first vehemently & ignorantly opposed […]

LS incomplete3

1
The date and the address, Down, are given in the sale catalogue.
3
The original letter is complete and is described in the sale catalogue as being 134 pages long.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11825F,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11825F