As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

John Steinbeck
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote...
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Not only did Charles Darwin struggle with his inability to communicate, but he also struggled with his inability to express himself. He was a man who was not only unable to talk, but also unable to write. That is, until he began to work on "The Origin of Species." After Darwin finished writing the book, he realized that it would take a long time for someone to understand what he had written and so he never looked back. He continued down his path and eventually produced "The Descent of Man." Now, almost two hundred years later, we continue to learn about evolution and how life on Earth came to be. Charles Darwin is a man who overcame his physical limitations and overcame them to become one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever seen.

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