XI PHENOMENA OF ORGANIC NATURE ATI 
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 
