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To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
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Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
| Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
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- … Wedgwood’s Dictionary , see Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Charles Lyell, 10 January [1860] , and letter to J. M. Rodwell, 5 November [1860] . See also Correspondence vol. 6, letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [before 29 September 1857] , and Correspondence vol. 8, letter from Hensleigh Wedgwood, [January? 1860] . In a letter to H. E. Darwin, [17 March 1865] (DAR 219.9: 25), Emma Darwin …
