Darwin's contemporary Spencer, and Darwin himself, thought this of Lamarck (they disagreed about its truth), and those called Neo-Lamarckians in the late 19th century also held this view and attributed it to Lamarck. Mayr argues it was due to mistranslation of the word besoin to want rather than need.
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As it can also be used to refer to the audible features of speech - a statement slowing and falling in pitch as it ends, for example, or the pause that a comma demands - it has been taken up by poets to refer to the pitch and rhythm of words within a poem.