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"kind of retrieving;" though the comparison, if 

 meant for the purposes of casting obloquy on 

 evolution, does not say much for the fairness of 

 those who make it.* 



The Quarterly Reviewer and Mr. Mivart base 

 their objections to the evolution of the mental facul- 

 ties of man from those of some lower animal form 

 upon what they maintain to be a difference in kind 

 between the mental and moral faculties of men and 

 brutes ; and I have endeavoured to show, by exposing 

 the utter unsoundness of their philosophical basis, 

 that these objections are devoid of importance. 



The objections which Mr. Wallace brings for- 

 ward to the doctrine of the evolution of the mental 

 faculties of man from those of brutes by natural 

 causes, are of a different order, and require 

 separate consideration. 



If I understand him rightly, he by no means 

 doubts that both the bodily and the mental facul- 

 ties of man have been evolved from those of 

 some lower animal ; but he is of opinion that 

 some agency beyond that which has been con- 

 cerned in the evolution of ordinary animals has 

 been operative in the case of man. " A superior 

 intelligence has guided the development of man 

 in a definite direction and for a special purpose, 

 just as man guides the development of many 

 animal and vegetable forms." l I understand this 



1 " The Limits of Natural Selection as applied to Man " (loc. 

 cit. p. 359). 



