RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Bichat on beauty. CUL-DAR85.A65. 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).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 354.


[A65]

[in margin:] Bichat says if everyone cast in same mould, there wd be no beauty.

(Sexual selection)

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After beauty of [excised]

pretend that [excised]

frozen, show [excised]

assumed then [excised]

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More symmetry of [excised]

between places, viz [excised]

[They] all the same [excised]


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