Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
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Discusses ethics of risking one’s life to save another.
Comments on STP’s article on women ["Evolution and female education", Nature 22 (1880): 485–6].
Thanks for CD’s comments on his paper ["On a point relating to brain dynamics", Nature 22 (1880): 29–30].
Contends that self-interest as a motive for conduct is more salutary than is generally thought, and should be considered in the evolution of morality.
Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].
Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.
Appreciates what CD says about his writing on two diverse subjects. Argues for value of "interdisciplinary approach". Has CD seen the pamphlet, "Physics and ethics" which he co-authored with an anonymous friend?
Regrets the pretentious tone of his 5 Aug letter [12678].
His intent in quoting Descent on the law of equal hereditary transmission to both sexes in his article "Evolution and female education" was to support female education.