...ready to hear what Mr. Darwin has to say on these points. Danvin. What I have to say, my Lord, is this, "Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or con- f science, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well...

...Mental added. dependent interest, as an attempt to see how far the study of the lower animals throws light on one of the highest psychical faculties of...any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral...

...conscience is only regret at not having followed the strongest permanent instinct. "Any animal whatever would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers could compare its instincts. The dissatisfaction which inevitably results from any unsatisfied instinct...

...analogous to what I have already observed with regard to their deficiency in moral qualities, and ' " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...intellectual powers have become as well developed as in man." — Darwin's Descent of Man, &c., vol. i. pp. 71, 72. Reid, on the other hand, lays it...

...hop< the practice of begging the question at issue, the folargu«. lowing assertion piay be quoted: Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either...

...begging the question at issue, the folquestion he f . ° »rgoe». lowing assertion may be quoted : " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either...

...experiences, from the social instinct, including sympathy. He regards it as in a high degree probable, f " that any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.' * See " Contemporary Review,"...

...by far the most important." t To this, nevertheless, is added, as highly probable, the proposition, that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Assuming the propriety of Mr...

...proposition, that " any animal whateverA endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevi- jp tably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its/ \' intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Assuming the propriety of Mr...

...moral sense (Descent of Man, vol. i. chap, iii.) is, that he thinks it " in a high degree probable that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Thus Darwin derives conscience...