RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft fragment of Descent vol. 1. CUL-DAR76.B29r. Transcribed by Milton Forsyth. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed from the online image by Milton Forsyth, edited by John van Wyhe 10.2009. Corrections by Christine Chua 2.2023. RN3

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 76-79 contain material for Darwin's book Cross and self fertilisation (1876).

This fragment was previously catalogued as a possible draft fragment of Origin of species.

[B29r]

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leads us to monkey leads us to [illeg] demur

But the time will soon surely soon come, when it will be thought wonderful, that naturalists who were well acquainted with the comparative structure & development of man & other mammals would should ever have believe supposed still believes that each was separately created, the separate work of an separate act of creation.1

1 The related text in Descent 1: 32-3: "...which leads us to demur to this conclusion. But the time will before long come when it will be thought wonderful, that naturalists, who were well acquainted with the comparative structure and development of man and other mammals, should have believed that each was the work of a separate act of creation."
Slight changes in punctuation occur in the second edition of Descent 1: 25: "...which leads us to demur to this conclusion. But the time will before long come, when it will be thought wonderful that naturalists, who were well acquainted with the comparative structure and development of man, and other mammals, should have believed that each was the work of a separate act of creation."

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