Talk:Correspondence of Charles Darwin

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[edit] Karl Marx

I've restored *Karl Marx to the list, though from D&M pp. 601-602 it appears that the extent of their correspondence was that in 1873 Marx sent a copy of a new edition of Das Kapital (in German) inscribed from a "sincere admirer", and Darwin struggled to read something of a work "so different" from his own, then courteously responded wishing he was "more worthy to receive it, by understanding more of political economy", and no doubt their respective efforts towards the "extension of knowledge" would "in the long run..... add to the happiness of mankind." Rather overoptimistic, perhaps, but worthy of inclusion? .. dave souza, talk 21:32, 16 May 2007 (UTC)