WCP5620

Published letter (WCP5620.6393)

[1] [p. 31]

Holly House, Barking, E. March 3, 1871.

Dear Miss Buckley, — Thanks for your note. I am hard at work criticising Darwin1. I admire his Moral Sense chapter as much as anything in the book2. It is both original and [2] [p. 32] the most satisfactory of all the theories, if not quite satisfactory.... — Believe me yours very faithfully,

ALFRED R. WALLACE.

P.S. — Darwin's book on the whole is wonderful! There are plenty of points open to criticism, but it is a marvellous contribution to the history of the development of the forms of life.

1
Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882). British naturalist, geologist and author, notably of On the Origin of Species (1859).
2
Darwin, C. 1871. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray. Referring to Chapter III. Moral Sense. Comparison of the mental powers of man and the lower animals — continued. [1: pp. 70-106].

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Transcribed by Preston, Tim [2019-12-17] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2022-07-19]

Please cite as “WCP5620,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP5620