My dear Miss Cobbe

Many thanks for your book. I shall value it very much & I think it is a common trouble to become less & less in sympathy with the usual prayers—² I am most glad to have it.

Mr Darwin has been much interested in your article as he likes to read all that you have to say against his views.³

He does not know whether you will agree with him, or if you do whether it will in any degree reconcile you to the imaginary case of the hive-bee becoming intellectual enough to acquire a moral sense—that, apparently in contradiction to what you say, the principle of acting for the good of others of the community & of the species wd still hold sovereign sway—⁴

I may say that the above sentence was written before he had read the article in Pall Mall for Ap. 12—in which this point is touched on, & which differs curiously from your view.⁵

very truly yours | Emma Darwin