RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Zincke, Last winter in the U.S, 1868. CUL-DAR80.B86. 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: 179-80. n28: "'Last Winter in the United States,' 1868, p. 29."
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Last Winter in the Uni States by Revd. F. B. Zincke. 1868 p. 29.
The great stream of Anglo-saxon emigration to the west & over world is thus spoken of.
"All other series of events, as that which resulted in the culture of mind in Greece, & that which resulted in the empire of Rome - only appear to have purpose & value when viewed in connection with or rather as subsidiary to the great stream of Anglo-saxon emigration to the West."
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Looking to the distant future I do not think that Z. take an exaggerated view when he says….
not that we must underate the migration of Knowledge handed down from old Time, in which man differs from all other [illeg]
[illeg] of how world progresses by tribes & nations supplanting & absorbing each other
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