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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bain, Mental and moral science, 1868. CUL-DAR80.B80. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. 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-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).

Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 77-8. n12: "As Mr. Bain states, "effective aid to a sufferer springs from sympathy proper;" 'Mental and Moral Science,' 1868, p. 245."

Alexander Bain. 1868. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

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[in margin:] It is a pleasure in itself

244 Sympathy is a distinct feeling

Sympathy wd be strengthened by habit & through the practice of benevolent actions, & the habit wd be acquired or aided by its naturally leading to reciprocity, & by new reason & intention telling us to expect good in return. Sympathy growing thus stronger wd increase our love of approbation & glory, & this wd influence our conduct.

So that I think sympathy wd tend to increase independently of selection, whence it started.)

p 254. Case of approbation due to sympathy well analyse

p. 277 to 280 Sympathy Bain Mental & Moral Science 1868

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