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From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 242
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s letter on his review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6
Summary:

Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 410
Summary:

Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].

Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.

Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 88: 71–2
Summary:

Gratified that CD approves his analysis of CD’s views of moral sense. Does not think there is a fundamental difference between J. S. Mill (Utilitarianism [1863], p. 45) and CD.

His view of those who object to CD’s "new doctrine of the moral sense".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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