LETTER FROM DARWIN
Charles Darwin's letter to Professor Bromm, the German translator of "The Origin of Species," was lately offered for sale in London. It Bays: "You argue mostly against my question, whether the many species were created as eggs or as mature, etc I fully agree that there might have been as well 100,000 creations as eight or ten, or only one " I do not believe that the process of development has always been carried on at the same rate •in all different parts of the world. Australia iB opposed to such belief. The nearly contemporaneous equal development in past periods I attribute to the slow migration of the higher and more dominant forms over the whole world ; and not to independent acts of development in different parts I cannot see the force of your objection that nothing is effected until the origin of life is explained; surely it is worth while to attempt to follow out the actions of electricity, though we know not .what electricity is," etc
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 12
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170LETTER FROM DARWIN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 89, 11 October 1913, Page 12
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