From:
Emil Holub
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 166: 261
Summary:
Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Requests visit to Down before he goes on expedition to South and Central Africa.
Argues that women are as regular "bread-winners" as men, though generally unrecognised as such, and that they possess the same qualities as men but lack the educational opportunities. Before women can be judged intellectually inferior to men they must share the same environment and opportunities. With "enlightened intellect, united with her wholesome moral nature" woman could help with the "propagation of the best and the survival of the fittest in the human species".