I conceive that Lamarck was the first to bring it forward systematically & to 'go the whole orang'..Yet evolutionists 'cannot be pooh-poohed & ought not to be so.'


Letter to Huxley, 17 June 1859, Imperial College Archives, Huxley Papers, 6:20. Partly reprinted in Leonard G. Wilson (ed.), Sir Charles Lyell's Scientific Journals on the Species Question (1970), 314. Lyell used this expression again in 1863, this time to Darwin. See The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (1999), Vol. 11

Charles Lyell Quotes

I conceive that Lamarck was the first to bring it forward systematically & to 'go the whole orang'..Yet evolutionists 'cannot be pooh-poohed & ought...

I conceive that Lamarck was the first to bring it forward systematically & to 'go the whole orang'..Yet evolutionists 'cannot be pooh-poohed & ought...

I conceive that Lamarck was the first to bring it forward systematically & to 'go the whole orang'..Yet evolutionists 'cannot be pooh-poohed & ought...

I conceive that Lamarck was the first to bring it forward systematically & to 'go the whole orang'..Yet evolutionists 'cannot be pooh-poohed & ought...