RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, vol. 1. CUL-DAR60.2.13r. 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: 71-2.
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as its intellectual powers became as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instinct leads an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to perform various definitive services for its fellows, & to feel to a certain extent amount of sympathy with for them. But these feelings & services are by no means extended to all the individuals of the species, only to those of the same association. Secondly, as one supposed animal rose in the intellectual scale of
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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