From:
Henry Napier Bruce Erskine
To:
Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:
1 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 163: 31–2
Summary:
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
Writes to HED for fear of tiring CD and to pass on, if she deems suitable, her view that there is no distinction to be made between self-regarding and other-regarding virtues.
Notes criticising Max Müller’s views on language and Darwinism.