Letter 13874
Darwin, C. R. to Kindt, Hermann
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Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
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[Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.]
[Enclosure: 1]
Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.
There is grandeur in this view of Life, with its several powers having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; & that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful & most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.—
Charles Darwin
Sept. 17
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- f1 13874.f1
See letter from Hermann Kindt, 16 September 1864. - +
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See Origin 2d ed., p. 490.