...fellows, as well as enabling him to think concerning these instincts. Hence Mr. Darwin says :— " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." The argument is peculiar: — "As soon as the mental faculties had become highly developed, images...

...all." Mr. Darwin thinks that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, wonld inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." * In enunciating this dictum our author pretty well contradicts himself; for he says, that such a creature...

...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is "either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,...

...very great in assumptions and probabilities, and he lays down the following proposition as seeming in a high degree probable, namely, " That any animal...whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...

...Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, •we may quote the following assertion : — '• Any animal whatever, endowed with •well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism; it is a truism, for of course,...

...modifications of past generations have undergone. And the late Mr. Darwin thought it probable in a high degree that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as man's. DAMON. I have the greatest respect for all facts, and consider that we owe much, both to Mr....

...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,...

...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,...

...instance, in his last work, The Descent of Man, says (Vol. I, p. 68) :— The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable, namely, that...conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had became as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. Then (Vol. i, pp. 85-89) he has this...

...animals can throw light on one of the highest psychical faculties of man. The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely,...acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellect«1 Metaphysics of Ethics,' translated by JW Semplc, Edinburgh, 1836, p. 136. 4 Mr. Bain gives...