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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

1879

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1879

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Darwin, Charles. "To A. S. Wilson, 5 March 1879." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 27: 1879. Cambridge University Press, 2020, no. 11917.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to A. S. Wilson, 5 Mar. 1879.

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