...principle applied, seeing that he expresses the hope it may " give a new basis to psychology; viz., that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." But to my quotations. That he supports Schopenhauer in the leading principle of his theory may be seen...

...the application of his theory to the very phenomena in question. He says: 1 "In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." It may not be amiss then to glance slightly at the question, so much disputed, concerning the origin...

...human race. But Prof. Darwin, on the " Origin of Species," (p. 424), says, " In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches....gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man and bis history." If Psychology is to be based on a new foundation, by which light will be thrown on the...

...the application of his theory to the very phenomena in question. He says : ' " In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches....gradation. Light will be thrown on the origin of man 1 " Origin of Species," 5th edit., 1869, p. 577 and his history." It may not be amiss then to glance...

...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 important researches....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...

...still further shown by what Mr. Darwin says of our mental powers. " In the distant future," he says, " I see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." 2 Of this prediction he has himself attempted the verification in his recent work on the " Descent...

...102. 3 Ibid, Foot-note, p. 103. * Ibid, p. 102. * Ibid, p. no. 6 " Descent of Man," Vol. 1, p. 34. researches. Psychology will be based on a new foundation,...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." l The contests of metaphysicians will cease, when even the phrenologist has transferred his examination...

...modified; so that we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time. In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement...

...Nor does he stop there ; he includes man within the sweep of the same law. " In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches....will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." (p. 577) The " distant future " was near at hand. In his introduction to his work on the " Descent...

...the flight of his own more soaring imagination : — ' In the distant future I see,' says Darwin, ' open fields for far more important researches. Psychology...will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.' ' Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered...