From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 61
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project