To William Main 29 November [1872]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Nov. 29th
Dear Sir
I am much obliged for your very courteous letter. If you ever have time & inclination to read my book,2 I think that you will see that all the cases, referred to, will not be easily explained through your principle of the lines. And even if they could be so explained, there would remain the solution why perpendicular & inclined lines should express what you believe they do.—
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks WM for his letter. CD does not think WM’s principle of [up-tending and down-tending] lines explains the cases of expression of emotions referred to, and, even if it did, the problem would remain as to why the lines should express what WM believes they do.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8654
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Main
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 10)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p †
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8654,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8654.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
