RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Litchfield. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent of man, folio 32. CUL-DAR67.48r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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-DAR67 contains notes on 'bloom'. Francis Darwin explained: "His researches into the meaning of the 'bloom,' or waxy coating found on many leaves, was one of those inquiries which remained unfinished at the time of his death. He amassed a quantity of notes on the subject". LL3: 339. See an Introduction to these folders by Christine Chua & John van Wyhe.
The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 66.
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as Mr Tylor*(39) clearly shows, from their not separating so often not distinguishing between subjective & objective impressions. When a savage dreams, the figures which appear before him are b believed by him "to have come from" their places a distance & to stand over him; or again
"the soul of the dreamer goes out on hi its travels, & comes home with a remembrance of what it has seen."
This strong tendency in all savages to believe that each active natural agency is agents of all kinds, are animated by a spiritual or living essence, is perhaps illustrated by a little fact which I one day once noticed: my dog, a full grown & sensible animal, was lying on the lawn, on a day during a hot & still
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