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.
Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.
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?