| Description | /1 Letter from Rev A. Brook-Jackson to Oliver Lodge, written from Hunmanby Vicarage, Yorkshire, undated [September 1927]. Rev Brook-Jackson writes that he finds it difficult to reconcile his belief in a creator of infinite wisdom and power with his understanding of evolution which appears to suggest 'the working of a mind with no clear vision no design no settled end in view'.
/2 Copy of letter from Oliver Lodge to Rev A. Brook-Jackson, dated 12 September 1927. Lodge responds to Brook-Jackson on the subject of evolution. He writes that experimentation and struggle appear to be pre-requisites for producing anything of value. He believes there is a 'deep truth' which humans cannot fully apprehend. He refers Brook-Jackson to his book 'Evolution and Creation'. |