To Friedrich Max Müller 3 July 1873
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Thanks FMM for his "Lectures [on Mr Darwin’s philosophy of language", Fraser’s Mag. n.s. 7 (1873): 525–41, 659–78].
CD is not worthy to be FMM’s adversary as he knows very little about language and, being fully convinced man is descended from some lower animal, he is forced to believe a priori that language has developed from inarticulate cries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Date: | 3 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 425 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8962 |
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Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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