RECORD: Darwin, C. R. Abstract of Staunton, An authentic account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China. CUL-DAR91.12. Transcribed by John van Wyhe. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2021. 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 volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'.
George Leonard Staunton. 1798. An authentic account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China: taken chiefly from the papers of the Earl of Macartney, etc. 2d ed., vol. 2.
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Staunton Embassy Vol II p. 405-
Speculates on origin of sacrifices common to many races thinks action toward a king man changed into is carried on toward deity— & as king might like cruel pleasure, so sacrifices cruel.—
Something wrong here.—
Origin is certainly curious.—
Chinese, S. American, Polynesians, Jews, Africans all sacrifice. How completely men must have personified the deity.—
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