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3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … Down House MSS) indicates that on 2 March 1866 he made a payment of £1 for ‘E. Edwards Photo’, but …
- … nature of Darwin’s theories, already treated him as a thinker of unassailable integrity and …
- … was characteristic of him. This image was also issued as a ‘carte de visite’, a copy of which …
- … was actually used in Walford’s Representative Men of 1868. If slightly less awkward and …
- … wan and plain-featured in these new images, partly as a result of his chronic ill health in the …
- … to Darwin’s family. His brother Erasmus – always a careful custodian of Charles’s public image – …
- … [initial] them on the back’. However, he had evidently had a preview, and added, ‘My present …
- … which was rejected on Erasmus’s advice? In either case, a profile shot may have seemed the least …
- … terms, and in 1872, Darwin even provided Edwards with a testimonial endorsing his ‘heliotype’ …
- … of 1909 did not include any of them, except in the form of a wood engraving (uncredited) in the …
- … (see separate catalogue entry). Once again, the products of a commercial studio appeared less …
- … Letter from Darwin to Robert Hunt, enclosing a sketch of ‘the principal events’ of his life for the …
- … 5 (1866), ‘Charles Robert Darwin’, pp. 49–52. Draft of a letter from Darwin to Edwards, commending …
- … Charles Francis Horne (ed.), Great Men and Famous Women. A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of …
- … Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place. Volume II of a Biography (London: Jonathan Cape, …
- … Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), …
The origin of language
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Darwin started thinking about the origin of language in the late 1830s. The subject formed part of his wide-ranging speculations about the transmutation of species. In his private notebooks, he reflected on the communicative powers of animals, their…
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- … and controversially debated in the Victorian period in a variety of fields, including comparative …
- … Whitney . Others argued that language was uniquely human, a manifestation of man’s higher nature …
- … theological view of language was Friedrich Max Müller , a German linguist and oriental scholar …
- … views on language in Descent of Man (1871), as part of a chapter on the comparative mental …
- … in children, linguistic pathologies, and the behaviour of a wide range of animals, wild and domestic …
- … and to compete with other males. The origins of language as a system of signifiers, he added, might …
- … and others by arguing that language use, while requiring a certain mental capacity, would also …
- … and remarking on how each developed gradually through a process of struggle: “the survival of …
- … brains of primates? Are animals capable of using language in a structured way, and do they possess …
- … progenitor of the human race? Such questions, addressed in a variety of scientific disciplines, …
- … London: John Murray, 1871. Darwin, Charles, 1877. A biographical sketch of an infant. Mind …
- … Alex V. W. Bikkers. London: John Camdem Hotten. Wake, C. S. 1868. Chapters on man, with the …
- … and natural theology in the nineteenth century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. …
