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
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On "moral sense" in Descent.
Agrees that social instinct or love for fellows is the beginning of moral feeling. Responds to CD’s letter [7537].
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."
Seeks to clarify his and HW’s views on the causes of repentance or shame.
Answers CD’s letter [7560], on points of agreement between them, the chief one being the sympathy which man has with his fellows. Disagrees however with CD’s "principle" of the painful feelings of dissatisfied instinct.
Copy of and note on a picture of Noah’s daughter averting her eyes in shame.