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CHAPTER V. 



^^ THE ETHICAL SPECULATIONS OF DARWIN. 



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Darwin s Difficulty with Intelligence and Conscience- 

 Probability of their Evolution Comparison of 

 Human and Animal Instincts, Emotions, Intellect 

 ual Powers, Progressiveness, Skill, and Speech- 

 Conscience a Greater Barrier Origin of Con 

 scienceAnimal Sociability The Social Instincts 

 being more present and persistent than the Self 

 ish, if violated, generate under Reflection the 

 Feeling of Remorse, or Conscience Darwin s 

 Treatment of Conscience compared with his 

 Treatment of Life and Mind : that Speculative, 

 this Scientific Possible Objection to his Mental 

 Science ; Insuperable Objection to his Ethics In 

 conceivability of an absolute beginning of Con 

 scienceDarwin takes Intelligence and (in his 

 Theory of Sexual Selection) the ^Esthetic Faculty 

 Ready-made : only of Conscience does he venture 

 the Creation Ambiguity in his use of &quot;Con 

 science,&quot; and the consequent Perplexity Con 

 science identified with Remorse How the Theory 

 fails to account for even this Conscience For the 

 Social Instincts are not more persistent and pres 

 ent ; and if they were, to follow them would bring 

 Satisfaction, not Remorse, to a Non-moral Being 

 This Fact not alterable by Reflection Dar 

 win derives Conscience from what tacitly im 

 plies it, ..... 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL IDEALS AND INSTITUTIONS, 

 WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE FAMILY. 



Darwin s Service to Historical Ethics indirect History 

 of Morals and Ethical Theories The Family and 



