Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
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Suicide is rare among savages [see Descent 1: 94].
The Census Bill is down on the paper for tomorrow; will CD restate how he wants to put the question [on cousin marriages]?
Brought forward the "cousin question" in the House; read most of CD’s letter to the House.
Some good men spoke for CD’s amendment, but in vain.
Congratulations [on election to Parliament]; hopes science will not suffer because of politics.
Previously wrote inquiring about savages and suicide, but JL need not hurry to answer.
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.