The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Temperance & Etiquette. CUL-DAR88.26. 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).

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A young officer gets tipsy or avoided fighting a duel & feels no shame afterwards, because his comrades do not blame him; but he wd if had done some vulgar action.

If I was to get tipsy I shd be completely ashamed, because I knew & have long known all wd blame me; & so I shd if I had done some very vulgar action. Now I cannot think with Hensleigh that there is any difference in those cases of temperance or fighting duel & vulgar action.

I do not look on my own conduct, as one that of another more in one case than other.

[in margin:] Hensleigh now allows no difference - except that one is by etiquette more decent than other.

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Hensleigh

Temperance & Etiquette

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)