RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1876.09.05. Letter to G. S. Ffinden / Draft of ? CUL-DAR202.47. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
[47]
[Letter not transcribed]
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(Conclusion)
This belief has originated in our certain complete inability to explain why one set of different a change in the condition should induce different or any indeed any variation. & we can no more understand explain why diversified a change in extreme circumstances It is equally unintelligible why diversified conditions should lead to diversified colours in the flowers, than why uniform conditions caused
[text excised] the flowers in the
[in another hand:] Ffinden
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