From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 41–53
Summary:
On "moral sense" in Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–9 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 56–9
Summary:
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
Date:
3 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 24, 54–5
Summary:
Admits pointer illustration is faulty.
Discusses shame, remorse, social instincts, approbation, and other topics discussed in Descent, ch. 4. "But as yet I nail my colours to the mast."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
