RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, (a) text p. 88. CUL-DAR60.1.59. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).
The text of this draft corresponds to Descent 1: 93.
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(a) text p. 88)
He must likewise, as is still more clearly clear, avoid the reprobation of his the one God or gods, in which whom he may believe, according to his knowledge or superstition believe; but in this case the additional fear of punishment will often in addition supervenes.)
(This view of the first origin & nature of the moral sense, which tells us what we ought to do, & of the conscience which reproves us, agrees well with what we see of their early or undeveloped condition. The
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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