...merit of novelty when it announces |[ that "man ia, in substance and structure, one with the brutes;" "and that even the highest faculties of feeling and...intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life." This grossest form, then, or, to use Dr. Johnson's words, this " brutal doctrine " of materialism,...

...and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin togerminate in lower forms of life." f The grand feature of modern materialistic philosophy is the...

...and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling...convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that whether from them or not, he is assuredly not...

...and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling...in lower forms of life.* At the same time no one is * It is so rare a pleasure for me to find Professor Owen'a opinions in entire accordance with my own,...

...unfortified, nnsustained, bridges over (he chasm between the human and the animal mind, and assures us that "even the highest faculties of feeling and of...intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life." A little shallow rhetoric about " the best evidence of the splendor of man's capacities" bein^ found...

...may ' add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a ' psychical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest ' faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in the ' lower forms of life.' The great toe, the third lobe, the posterior cornu, the hippocampus minor,...

...distinction" (between man and the animals immediately below him in the scale) " is equally futile," for that " even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in the lower forms of life." Let us now, for the purpose of dispassionate inquiry into its validity, put...

...only in deirree from those of man. Professor Huxley seems to adopt the same views, for he believes " that even the highest faculties of feeling and of...intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life," than that of man. In this view, these two zoologists are exceptions probably to the general belief;...

...only in degree from those of man. Professor Huxley seems to adopt the same views, for he believes " that even the highest faculties of feeling and of...intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life," than that of man. In this view, these two zoologists are exceptions probably to the general belief;...

...capabilities of Man. These it would, of course, be idle to dwell upon. Although Prof. Huxley tells us that " even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in the lower forms of life," and asks with apparent indignation, " Is mother-love vile, because a hen...