RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Note on sympathy for Descent / Draft of Expression, p. 249. CUL-DAR87.189. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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.
Quoted in Descent 2d ed., p. 143 where Darwin provides the note "I am much indebted to Mr. John Morley for some good criticisms on this subject: see, also, Broca, 'Les Sélections,' 'Revue d'Anthropologie,' 1872."
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But it shd be born in mind that the enforcing of public the judgment of others depends on our appreciation of praise & blame & this is founded on sympathy
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passion; and then their their bodies became less erect, with their heads pushed forwards; and they made grimaces at each other; their shoulders were raised; arms rigidly bent inwards at the elbow; and
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