From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project