RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ch 6 / Falconer thinks that Hindoos have same idea of Beauty with us. CUL-DAR85.A38. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


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Ch 6

May 20/58 Falconer thinks that Hindoos have same idea of Beauty with us, as shown by their choosing Cashmere women, who are fair, for their concubines (but then same type of structures in Hindoos & us.)

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