sastark
Puritan Board Graduate
I'm doing research for a paper and came across this reference to Calvin by Charles Darwin:
Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, Down, June 17, 1856 (Life and Letters, 1:431-432)
As quoted in David Hull, Darwin and His Critics, Harvard University Press, 1973, page 126.
Emphasis added.
I have been deeply interested in Wollaston's book [On the Variation of Species, 1856], though I differ greatly from many of his doctrines. Did you ever read anything so rich, considering how very far he goes, as his denunciations against those who go further; "most mischievious," "absurd," "unsound." Theology is at the bottom of some of this. I told him that he was like Calvin burning a heretic. It is a very valuable and clever book in my opinion.
Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, Down, June 17, 1856 (Life and Letters, 1:431-432)
As quoted in David Hull, Darwin and His Critics, Harvard University Press, 1973, page 126.
Emphasis added.
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