RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, Chapt I, folio 21. CUL-DAR157.21. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR157 consists of Darwin book draft leaves that were preserved by the family. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 48.
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[slip of paper pasted on in the hand of Ebenezer Norman:]
The muleteers in S. America, as Humboldt remarks, * say "I will not give you the mule whose step is easiest, but la mas racional.— the one that reasons best;" and Humboldt *(11) he adds, "this popular expression, dictated by long experience, combats the system of animated machines, better perhaps than all the arguments of speculative physiology. philosophy."
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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