...free-will and predestination, vin— 278 THE ORIGIN OF THE HUMAN SPECIES From 'The Descent of Man' THE main conclusion arrived at in this work — namely,...will, I regret to think, be highly distasteful to many persons. But there can hardly be a doubt that we are descended from barbarians. The astonishment which...

...is concerned, there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...through natural selection ; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts which afforded the base for the development of the moral...

...is concerned, there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...through natural selection ; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts which afforded the basis for the development of the moral...

...important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effect of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." The change which Mr. Fiske, like Mr. Darwin before him, has sought to signalize by limiting the phrase...

...lower animals, and only observes of his psychology : — " The moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." 2 The author of Mr. Balfour's Apologetics, however, refers man's senses, reason, aesthetic powers,...

...is concerned, there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...through natural selection; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts which afforded the basis for the development of the moral...

...is concerned there are other agencies more important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effects...through natural selection ; though to this latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts, which afforded the basis for the development of the...

...religion, etc., than through natural selection, though to the latter agency may be safely attributed the social instincts which afforded the basis for the development of the moral sense." 2 In other words, though selection had something to do with the first beginnings of moral and social...

...important. For the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effect of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." It was Huxley, however, who drew out the full meaning of the hint thus given. I need hardly remind...

...that " the moral qualities are advanced, either directly or indirectly, much more through the effect of habit, the reasoning powers, instruction, religion, etc., than through natural selection." As his son asserts : " It is the worship of brute force and not the doctrine of evolution that must...