...natural history : — ' The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to...

...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,...

...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed, as in man." Now before we can discuss that proposition itself, we must...

...human race. '' The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to...

...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....

...human race. " The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to...

...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,...