From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
13 Jan 1879
Source of text:
DAR 145: 129
Summary:
Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.
Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.