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Darwin-Hooker Letters : Letter from J. D. Hooker to C. R. Darwin   [21 December 1862]

Hooker, Joseph Dalton

Darwin-Hooker Letters

<p style='text-align: justify;'>"Throttled off" <i>Welwitschia</i> paper at Linnean Society [<i>Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond.</i> 24 (1863): 1–48].</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Has read Tocqueville’s <i>Democracy in America</i> [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.</p>

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