The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Disgust. CUL-DAR195.3.6. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR195 contains materials for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions (1872) organised roughly as: DAR195.1 blushing. DAR195.2 astonishment, fear. DAR195.3 indignation, rage, screaming, etc. DAR195.4 laughter, frowning, introduction.

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Disgust

As word expresses origin — & excited most easily in relation to food — How strange it is & yet true that a few smears of excellent soup on a man's beard looks disgusting: & so does any odd way of smelly foods.

[Expression, pp. 257-8: "A smear of soup on a man's beard looks disgusting, though there is of course nothing disgusting in the soup itself. I presume that this follows from the strong association in our minds between the sight of food, however circumstanced, and the idea of eating it."

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