The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Spencer, Scientific Essays. CUL-DAR195.4.68. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2022. 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-DAR195 contains materials for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions (1872) organised roughly as: DAR195.1 blushing. DAR195.2 astonishment, fear. DAR195.3 indignation, rage, screaming, etc. DAR195.4 laughter, frowning, introduction.

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An agreeable perfume will cause a smile a [illeg] gazing on any splendid object into art

H. Spencer p. 360 Essays

[Spencer, Essays: "In a sensitive person an agreeable perfume will produce a smile; and smiles will be seen on the faces of a crowd gazing at some splendid burst of fireworks." Expression, p. 198: "A man smiles—and smiling, as we shall see, graduates into laughter—at meeting an old friend in the street, as he does at any trifling pleasure, such as smelling a sweet perfume.1
1 Herbert Spencer, 'Essays Scientific,' &c., 1858, p. 360."]

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