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ethical systems which make welfare, pleasure, happiness the cardinal aims (pp. 

 171, 172). 



Nor is this all. Having asserted that the moral sentiments " are 

 indispensable as incentives and deterrents," and that " the intuitions 

 corresponding to these sentiments " have " a general authority to be 

 reverently recognized," I have ended by saying : 



Hence, recognizing in due degrees all the various ethical theories,- conduct in 

 its highest form will take as guides, innate perceptions of right, duly enlight- 

 ened and made precise by an analytic intelligence, while conscious that these 

 guides are proximately supreme solely because they lead to the ultimately su- 

 preme end happiness, special and general (pp. 172, 173). 



Experience does not lead me to suppose that Professor Goldwin 

 Smith will admit his description of my views to be unjustified. Con- 

 trariwise, many instances have proved to me that, when the statements, 

 first made are not distinguished by great scrupulousness, no great scru- 

 pulousness is shown in the defense of them. The reader will be able, 

 however, to decide beforehand whether any reply which may be made 

 can be adequate. He has simply to ask himself whether, having read 

 the sentence I have quoted from Professor Goldwin Smith, he could 

 have expected to find in the " Data of Ethics " the passages I have 

 quoted from it. If he says " No," as he must do, then, whatever ex- 

 planation or defense may be offered, will leave outstanding the charge 

 of grave misrepresentation. 



Perhaps it will be assumed that this is simply a mistake, an inad- 

 vertence, an oversight on the part of Professor Goldwin Smith an 

 excejDtional error he has fallen into. Well, even were this true, it 

 could hardly be held to excuse him, considering that his statement in- 

 volves a condemnatory characterization of the work as a whole. But 

 it is not true. So far from being exceptional, the instance I have 

 given is typical of his entire criticism. I have noted eight other state- 

 ments of his concerning views of mine, which are quite at variance 

 with the facts most of them as widely at variance as the one I have 

 instanced. I do not wish to occupy either my own time or the pages 

 of the " Contemporary Review " in setting forth these at length, but 

 I am quite prepared to do it if need be. Contemporary Review. 



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Bt ALFRED ETTSSEL WALLACE. 



IF the skeletons of an orang-outang and a chimpanzee be compared 

 with that of a man, there will be found to be the most wonderful 

 resemblance, together with a very marked diversity. Bone for bone, 

 throughout the whole structure, will be found to agree in general 



