When Charles Darwin sent the manuscript of the Origin of Species to be reviewed for style before sending it to the press, he was shocked by the heavy corrections made to it. He expressed this in a letter to Hooker, saying that someone like him would have written a great book if he had had his materials:
But I will never give up that a better man could have made a splendid book out of the materials.
It seems that "give up" used to have another meaning beside quitting and surrendering back then; but what did it mean?
But I will never give up that a better man could have made a splendid book out of the materials.
It seems that "give up" used to have another meaning beside quitting and surrendering back then; but what did it mean?