From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Max Müller
Date:
3 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 146: 425
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project