RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871.03.30. [Note on Moral sense.] CUL-DAR88.5. 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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March 30 /71/ When see another man not saving a drowner we blame him because (& this is reverse of Hensleigh) we imagine him to be ourselves, & we know that this wd be opposed to our own social instinct - & opposed to what we know is praised & blamed by all our comrades.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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