The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: the New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
“The Moral Animal @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } Chapter 6: THE DARWIN PLAN FOR MARITAL BLISS She has been my greatest blessing, and I can declare that in my whole life I have never heard her utter one word which I had rather have been unsaid... . She has been my wise adviser and cheerful comforter throughout life, which without her would have been during a very long period a miserable one from ill-health. She has earned the love and admiration of every soul near... her.
— Autobiography (1876)1 In his pursuit of a lasting and fulfilling marriage, Charles Darwin possessed several distinct advantages.
To begin with, there was his chronic ill health. Nine years into marriage, while visiting his ailing father, and while ailing himself, he wrote to Emma of how he "yearned" for her, as "without you, when sick I feel most desolate." He closed the letter: "I do long to be with you & under your protection for then I feel safe."2 After three decades of marriage, Emma would observe that "nothing marries one so completely as sickness."3 This reflection may have been more bitter than sweet; Darwin's illness was a lifelong burden for her, and she couldn't have grasped its full weight until well after the wedding.MoreLess
— Autobiography (1876)1 In his pursuit of a lasting and fulfilling marriage, Charles Darwin possessed several distinct advantages.
To begin with, there was his chronic ill health. Nine years into marriage, while visiting his ailing father, and while ailing himself, he wrote to Emma of how he "yearned" for her, as "without you, when sick I feel most desolate." He closed the letter: "I do long to be with you & under your protection for then I feel safe."2 After three decades of marriage, Emma would observe that "nothing marries one so completely as sickness."3 This reflection may have been more bitter than sweet; Darwin's illness was a lifelong burden for her, and she couldn't have grasped its full weight until well after the wedding.MoreLess
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