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Here's the book to which you refer.

I sample here and there and there and there and there again and see nothing but a very curious and observant mind from 131 years ago, at work on the question of from whence arose humankind. So I guess you disagreed with something at some point?

So I guess you disagreed with something at some point?

Yep, VR, I did. I disagreed with the whole idea of some putative "Common Ancestor," as understood in the Darwinian doctrinal framework. Other than that, I have no problem with evolution at all.

Here's an interesting quote from Chapter II:

With kine and horses, Kurnus! we proceed By reasonable rules, and choose a breed For profit and increase at any price: Of a sound stock, without defect or vice. But, in the daily matches that we make, The price is everything: for money's sake, Men marry: women are in marriage given The churl or ruffian, that in wealth has thriven, May match his offspring with the proudest race: Thus everything is mix'd, noble and base! If then in outward manner, form, and mind, You find us a degraded, motley kind, Wonder no more, my friend! the cause is plain, And to lament the consequence is vain.
(The Works of J. Hookham Frere, vol. ii., 1872, p. 334.)

Note the hypocrisy above. Darwin decries his own behavior of marrying for money.