Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1936, 1937.

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Burrow, Trigant, 1875-1950. Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1936, 1937.

Correspondence to Morley Roberts, 1936, 1937.

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In his letter of 1936 Trigant Burrow responds to a recent letter from Morley Roberts, of 29 June, in which Roberts had reflected on parallels in their scientific positions. Burrow also quotes a passage from Roberts's book Malignancy and evolution, saying that he is including the quotation in the book he is currently completing. In his letter of 1937, Burrow is mainly asking Roberts's permission to quote from two letters that Roberts had written him, and copies out the relevant passages; one of the passages is from the above-mentioned letter of the previous year, and the other is from a more recent letter, in 1937. The points of agreement underlying their exchanges seem to have to do with an analysis of social evolution within a biological framework and with repudiation of concepts of psychology; a key term in one quoted passage from Roberts is social organism. The book that Burrow is writing is probably in both instances his Biology of human conflict (1937).

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