From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Gurney
Date:
8 July 1876
Source of text:
LL 3: 186
Summary:
Read EG’s article ["Some disputed points in music", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 20 (1876): 106–30]. Diversity of musical taste in man indicates that it is acquired during individuals’ lives. The origin of the "sense of sublimity".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project