RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'I grant that the thrill which runs through every fibre when one beholds'. CUL-DAR91.7. Edited by John van Wyhe. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2021. Corrections by Christine Chua 8.2023. RN2
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'.
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I grant that the thrill, which runs through every fibre, when one beholds the last rays of σ α or grand chorus are utterly inexplicable— I cannot admit think reason sufficient to give up my theory— Viewing from eminence the wide expanse, of country, netted with edges & crowded with towns & thoroughfares, I grant that man from the effects of hereditary knowledge, has produced almost ↘
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almost greater changes in the polity of nature than any other animal.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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