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From John Morley 26 March 1871
Summary
Thanks for CD’s letter on his review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871].
| Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7628 |
From John Morley 30 March 1871
Summary
Questions CD’s attribution of a sense of beauty to animals and his use of natural selection to explain phenomena JM feels it more appropriate to describe as social selection.
| Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 170, DAR 88: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7645 |
From John Morley 17 April 1871
Summary
Gratified that CD approves his analysis of CD’s views of moral sense. Does not think there is a fundamental difference between J. S. Mill (Utilitarianism [1863], p. 45) and CD.
His view of those who object to CD’s "new doctrine of the moral sense".
| Author: | John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 88: 71–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7691 |
