From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 170
Summary:
Arranges to visit CD at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Arranges to visit CD at Down.
Discusses the mental powers and habits of animals and considers that those of man are not separated from those of animals by any sort of fundamental barrier; the gulf seems formidable only from a self-conscious, human point of view. Man’s important distinction is his greater ability to act and respond independently of external stimuli, in consequence of his internal accumulation of personal experience.