...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,...

...to conscious intelligence and will.' * And he is anxious to maintain our oneness with the brute : ' I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural...highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin togerminate in lower forms of life." f The grand feature of modern materialistic philosophy is the...

...creation. What, then, is the real organic difference between Man and the apes ? Professor Huxley endeavours to show ' that no absolute ' structural line of demarcation...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,...

...world and ourselves ; 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...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,...

...animal world and ourselves ; and I may ' add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw 8 ' psychical distinction is equally futile, and that...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,...

...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...

...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 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;...

...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;...

...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...