RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1873.06.09. [Queen bees]. CUL-DAR88.18. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Edward B. Tylor. 1873. Primitive society, part 2. Contemporary Review, vol. 22 (June): 53-72.[18]
June 9 /73/ Descent of Man
After about Q. acts killing other ds. add principle being the good of the community - So with man in lower tribes & how with savages the law of blood-revenge, which included not only the murderer but his family, even his young children, that what we look at as morally most odious atrocious was by them held as the most sacred duty, & no doubt the law was advantageous in the violent societies. See on this head E. B. Tylors very interesting article Primitive Soc. in the Contemporary R. June 73 p. 60.
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