CHAPTER VIII 



MAN 



I. Descent of Man. — II. Sexual Selection. — III. Expression 



of the Emotions 



Letter 403 I. DESCENT OF MAN, 1860-82 



To C. Lyell. 



Down, April 27th [i860]. 



I cannot explain why, but to me it would be an infinite 

 satisfaction to believe that mankind will progress to such a 

 pitch that we should [look] back at [ourselves] as mere 

 Barbarians. I have received proof-sheets (with a wonderfully 

 nice letter) of very hostile review by Andrew Murray, 1 read 

 before the Royal Society of Edinburgh. But I am tired with 

 answering it. Indeed I have done nothing the whole day but 

 answer letters. 



Letter 404 To L. Horner. 



The following letter occurs in the Memoir of Leonard Horner, 

 edited by his daughter Katherine M. Lyell, Vol. II., p. 300 (privately 

 printed, 1890). 



Down, March 20th [1861]. 



I am very much obliged for your Address, 2 which has 

 interested me much. ... I thought that I had read up pretty 

 well on the antiquity of man ; but you bring all the facts so well 



1 " On Mr. Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species," by Andrew 

 Murray. Proc. Roy. Soc, Edi?ib., Vol. IV., pp. 274-91, 1862. The 

 review concludes with the following sentence : " I have come to be of 

 opinion that Mr. Darwin's theory is unsound, and that I am to be spared 

 any collision between my inclination and my convictions " (referring to 

 the writer's belief in Design). 



3 Mr. Horner's Anniversary Address to the Geological Society {Proc. 

 Geol. Soc, XVII., 1861). 



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