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From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 165: 50
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer to send numbers of Kosmos.

WEG thinks the evidence from Homer’s text is conclusive that his "discrimination of colour was as defective as his sense of form and of motion was exact and lively".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 51
Summary:

Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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