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From:
George Arthur Gaskell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 12
Summary:

Discusses three "laws of race preservation" which are evolving: (1) natural selection; (2) the sociological law of sympathetic selection, or indiscriminate survival; (3) moral law – social selection or the "Birth of the Fittest".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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?"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Arthur Gaskell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1878
Source of text:
DAR 165: 13
Summary:

Thanks CD for his encouraging letter. Replies to CD’s points. Thinks more attention should be given to the origin and growth of sexual shame.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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