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Letter to Arthur Helps, March 1873
Author: G.H.Lewes
Recipient: Arthur Helps
Date: ??/03/1873
Collection: The Helps Letters
County Record Office Ref: CR3989/3/1/6
Nuneaton Library Facsimile: yes | | |
Description
This letter by G H Lewes to Arthur Helps is a hastily written addendum to the note written the previous day concerning vivisection [letter CR 3989/3/1/5]. It is clear Helps has assisted his friend by quoting Descartes's opinion on animals and pain. Written from The Priory, Regent's Park. Dated Friday. Pencil marking on front of letter '1873'. Signed G H Lewes
NB Parts of this letter are in French.Accorded the date 7 March 1873 by the Nuneaton library index.
Facsimile
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Transcript
The Priory,
21, North Bank,
Regents Park.
Friday
My dear Helps
In my hurry yesterday I forgot to add a note about Descartes confirming your impression that he did not maintain animals to have no feeling. With regard to your difficulty in finding any passage in which his opinion was distinctly expressed the only one I know is that in his letter (Cluner vol 7 p 393) in which however you may observe that he qualifies the denial of feeling by saying come en vous & aucun vrai sentiment. Now if you compare this with the passage vol X p 208 you will see that he speaks of thought (non de la vie ou de sentiment. He adds je ne leur refuse pas meme la sentiment autant qu'il depend des organes du corpe. Ainsi mon opinion d'estpre si cruelle aux animaux.
Ever your faithfully
G.H. Lewes
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