RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent, Chap. II, folio 30. HRM-UTA-MS-01064. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin and William Huxley Darwin. From the Miriam Lutcher Stark Collection, which also contained a 1st edition Origin, also in the same collection today.
The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 53-4.
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Language.— This faculty has justly been considered by by many persons as one of the chief distinctness between man & the lower animals. It is no doubt of the high & importance. But man, as a great master of logic, Archbishop Whately Whately has remarked s "is not the only animal that can make use use of language to express what is passing in his mind, & can understand, more or less, what is so expressed by another."*(22) Articulate language, however, is is no doubt quite peculiar to man; but he makes great use of in articulate crys & tones, of gestures & expressions,*(23) in order to render so that his rendering may be clear; & many of these aids man he uses to a large extent in common to with the lower animals. Monkeys The countenance expressions & gestures of a monkey
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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