Editing Langdon Cheves (section)

===Views on evolution===
Like many wealthy men of his day, Cheves was interested in science. The physician and [[geologist]] [[Joseph Le Conte]] was an acquaintance. In his autobiography, Le Conte wrote that Cheves had articulated to him a theory of evolution almost identical to [[Charles Darwin]]'s, long before Darwin published his ''[[Origin of Species]]''.<ref>{{Cite book
 | last1 = Dabney | first1 = Virginius
 | author-link = Virginius Dabney
 | title = Liberalism in the South
 | location = [[Chapel Hill, NC]]
 | publisher = [[University of North Carolina Press]]
 | year= 1932
 | pages = 84
 | isbn = 978-0-404-00146-9 }}</ref> However, Cheves never published his ideas on the subject.