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DCP-LETT-8957

From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 284
Summary:

Sends three lectures on the origin of human language [see 8962].

Although a "sincere admirer", he differs with CD on the relation of human to so-called animal language.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8962

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.

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