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By Charles Darwin
I fully subscribe to the judgment of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important.
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- The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, vol. 1, 1871 · Part I, Chapter III, p. 70
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- Internet Archive (scan of the 1871 first edition, London: John Murray)
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Opening sentence of Chapter III of The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, first edition, volume 1 (London: John Murray, 1871). Darwin goes on to argue that the moral sense grew out of social instincts.