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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Arthur Gaskell
Date:
15 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 144: 327
Summary:

CD hopes GAG is right [see 11744]. His second law seems largely acted on in civilised societies. Evil that would follow from checking benevolence to weak and diseased would be greater than by allowing them to survive and procreate. CD doubts that artificial checks would be advantageous to the world at large. If birth could be prevented, and control were not thought immoral, "would there not be a danger of profligacy amongst unmarried women?"

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