RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1838-1839. Notebook N: 21e-22e (excised pages). CUL-DAR53.1.B37. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2025. RN3
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-DAR53.1 contains notes, photographs, and drawings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions.
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Lutké1 Voyage in Carolinas Vol II p. 132. offered to take a savage, said his wife would be grieved — "il leva les épaules et dit qu'il valait mieux rester a Farroïlap quelque mal qu'on y fût."
Expression common to Savage & Frenchman, unaccompanied by dignity — "no mon dieu," with a shrug — "all I can say, I am very sorry so it is" — does not accompany I will not. I am sorry I cannot.2
— Expression
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1. Lutké, Frédéric, Voyage autour du Monde, exécuté . . . sur la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828, et 1829, etc., traduit du russe par F. Boyé, Didot, Paris, 4 vols., 2 atlases, 1835–36.
2. The word "Expression" is crayoned in at the top of the page. Also, the words "leave this out not in Library no good" are written across the page.
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Reason in simplets form probably is single comparison by senses of any two objects — they by vivid power of conception between one or two absent things. — reason probably mere consequence of vividness & multiplicity of things remembered & the associated pleasure &c accompanying such memory. —
a melody on flute & Epic poem, opposite ends of series or harmonious prose. —
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