...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...

...lower apes." Matters were at this point when the Origin of Species appeared. The weighty sentence, " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," was not only in full harmony with the conclusions at which. I had arrived, but was strongly supported...

...aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future." 2 "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on newly laid down foundations; that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power...

...Darwin foresaw this from the first, and in the " Origin of Species " asserted his belief that " much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." * Now, if this had only meant a chemical analysis of " the dust of the ground," out of which man was...

...which I really meant ' appeared by some wholly unknown process.'" In the work itself he says that " light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history " (as indeed it was by his Descent of Man in 1871); but this was disconcerting to those who believed...

...physical structure of species, but also to mental development, for he says — " In the distant future, Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that...acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." It is not the first time by far that the gratuitous theory of spontaneous development has been propounded....

...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...

...than those with which he was prepared personally to deal He writes, in The Origin of Species2, "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...

...named though clearly referred to. Elsewhere (Origin, Ed. ip 488) the author is bolder and writes " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." In Ed. vi. p. 668, he writes " Much light &c." 3 For the history of this sentence (with which the Origin...

...into the foreground, never flinched from recognizing that man could not be excluded from his theory. " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history " (Origin, ed. i. 488). Owen could not face the wrath of fashionable orthodoxy. In his Rede Lecture...