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To: PatrickHenry

From Ol' Darwin to Karl:

Dear Sir:

I thank you for the honour which you have done me by sending me your great work on Capital; & I heartily wish that I was more worthy to receive it, by understanding more of the deep and important subject of political Economy. Though our studies have been so different, I believe that we both earnestly desire the extension of Knowledge, & that this is in the long run sure to add to the happiness of Mankind.
I remain, Dear Sir
Yours faithfully,
Charles Darwin
Letter from Charles Darwin to Karl Marx
October, 1873

Karl on Darwin:

Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is a book which contains the basis of natural history for our views.
Karl Marx on Darwin's Origin of Species
December, 1860


1,273 posted on 08/03/2005 9:52:09 AM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: eleni121

So what ? how many products of science you use daily are/ have been invented by communists, atheists, liberals or fascists ? Would you hold science itself accountable for their foibles and stop using them ?


1,277 posted on 08/03/2005 10:00:11 AM PDT by Analog Artist (My thoughts are like silvery liquid metal floating through infinite white space in zero gravity..)
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To: eleni121
From Ol' Darwin to Karl:
Dear Sir:
I thank you for the honour ..

Yeah, so? Haven't you ever seen a polite refusal before? What did Darwin say that has you all worked up? He graciously declined the "honor," and he also said, in effect, that he didn't know beans about economics.

Is that the extent of your "evidence" for a Darwin-Marx connection?

1,295 posted on 08/03/2005 11:01:43 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: eleni121
Again, attempting to link Darwin to Marx has absolutely zero relevance to the truth of the ToE.
1,331 posted on 08/03/2005 12:13:55 PM PDT by malakhi
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