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ment of man from some simpler and lower stock 

 than man. There is not a single faculty func- 

 tional or structural, moral, intellectual, or instinc- 

 tive, there is no faculty whatever that is not 

 capable of improvement ; there is no faculty what- 

 soever which does not depend upon structure, and 

 as structure tends to vary, it is capable of being 

 improved. 



Well, I have taken a good deal of pains at 

 various times to prove this, and I have endeav- 

 oured to meet the objections of those who main- 

 tain, that the structural differences between man 

 and the lower animals are of so vast a character 

 and enormous extent, that even if Mr. Darwin's 

 views are correct, you cannot imagine this par- 

 ticular modification to take place. It is, in fact, 

 an easy matter to prove that, so far as structure is 

 concerned, man differs to no greater extent from 

 the animals which are immediately below him 

 than these do from other members of the same 

 order. Upon the other hand, there is no one who 

 estimates more highly than I do the dignity of 

 human nature, and the width of the gulf in in- 

 tellectual and moral matters which lies between 

 man and the whole of the lower creation. 



But I find this very argument brought forward 

 vehemently by some. " You say that man has 

 proceeded from a modification of some lower 

 animal, and you take pains to prove that the 

 structural differences which are said to exist in his 



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