RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Expression, on muscles. CUL-DAR53.2.127. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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.
[127]
(a) Muscles. Even the expectation or remote chance of internal injury would lead to their contraction in the same manner as the possibility of external injury from an object moved near the eye induces involuntary winking of the eyelids. We may, therefore safely conclude
[Expression, p. 162]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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