...could not be excluded from his theory. In the first edition of the ' Origin ' he frankly stated : ' Light will be thrown on the ' origin of man and his history.' § Owen's evolutionism was not ready to go so far. In his Rede lecture, delivered before the University...

...hinted at another subject of inquiry when in the last edition of the " Origin " (P- 577) he said, " In the distant future I see open fields for far more...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." Into these fields of speculation he enters boldly in the present work, and arrives at the conclusion...

...at present known, although of a length quite incomprehensible by ns, will hereafter be recognised a< a mere fragment of time, compared with the ages which...Light will be thrown on the origin of man* and his " As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian...

...scientific in the breadth of its vision ; it becomes prophetic. " In the distant future," says Mr. Darwin, " I see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." But it is time to look directly at the great cardinal point in Mr. Darwin's book, which is, to break...

...But Mr. Darwin does not stop here. "In the distant future," he prophesies, " I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be based...each mental power and capacity by gradation. Light also will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (p. 488). It will be proved that cellular...

...which life was first breathed by the Creator." Further on, he remarks, " In the distant future, . . . Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacitv by gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and hw history ." Elsewhere he had...

...assertion of convictions which appear to clash with Revelation. At p. 523 (third edition) he says, " In the. distant future I see open fields for far more...foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mutual power and capacity by gradation ; light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history....

...avapifivfia-Keodai etrriv olov o-vAAoytoyios Tir.) On the other hand, Mr. Darwin's expectation that " psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation," comes from a school of philosophy which we have no sympathy with. 53 variety now and then. The variety...

...modification to the change of circumstances. The author (1855) has treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. In 1852 (Eevue Horticole, p. 102), M. Naudin, a distinguished botanist,* has expressly stated his belief...

...Charles Darwin has startled the scientific world, he remarks, as he draws his first abstract to a close : "The whole history of the world, as at present known,...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." Already the speculations of Darwin have done good service to the ethnologist, though not in the way...