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From J. F. McLennan 30 July 1877
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Sees abortion as a refinement of infanticide; all such practices originate in female infanticide. Herbert Spencer’s over-speculation.
| Author: | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11082 |
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- … Darwin Library–CUL; see Marginalia 1: 26. In an article in Fortnightly Review , 1 June 1877 ( McLennan 1877 ), McLennan had criticised Herbert Spencer’s remarks on exogamy in his Principles of sociology 1: 649ff. ( Spencer 1876–96 ). See also letter from L. H. Morgan, 26 June 1877 . Eleonora Anne McLennan . Henrietta Emma …
