RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Quotation from a letter to B. J. Sullivan on civilizing the Fuegians, 1880]. Leisure Hour: an illustrated magazine for home reading, 31: 533.
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Civilisation.—"I had always thought that the civilisation of Japan was the most wonderful thing in history; but I am now convinced that what the missionaries have done in Terra del Fuego, in civilising the natives, is equally wonderful."— Charles Darwin in letter to Admiral Sir B. J. Sullivan.1
1 This is an extract from Darwin's 3 January 1880 letter to Sulivan. See the full annotated letter in Correspondence vol. 28, p. 14. The extract was apparently first published in American Missionary in 1881. For Darwin's interest in the South American Mission, and the context for the first publication of this letter, see Life and letters, vol. 3, pp. 127-8 and Correspondence vol. 28.
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