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Ch[arles] Darwin to unidentified recipient, n.y. November 2. ALS, 4 pp. on 1 l. Regarding a theory of language. Darwin responds to this unidentified author's courteous criticism of natural selection. Darwin concludes his letter, "considering what Geology teaches us, the argument for the supposed immutability of specific Types seems to me much the same as if, in a nation which had no old writings, some wise old savage was to say that his language had never changed; but my metaphor is too long to fill up." |
