To Hermann Kindt1 17 September 1864
I am most obliged for your kind & flattering letter.—2 I have copied the last sentence of the “Origin”, which I hope will do.–
In haste | yours faithfully | C. Darwin
[Enclosure]
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.—3
Charles Darwin
Sept. 17th. 1864.—
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Origin 2d ed.: On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1860.
Summary
Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13874
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15)
- Physical description
- ALS * 1p encl 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13874,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13874.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 12 and 13 (Supplement)
