AUTHORITIES USED, COMPILATION, ETC. 157 



is literally nothing but a perpetual trickle of merely 

 hypothetical and supposititious wills and woulds, let him 

 realise to himself what is absolutely the truth of this, 

 and I think he will be astounded that such a weight 

 should be committed to so much that is at least reedy. 



"Man, made in the image of God, was also made in 

 the image of the ape." It is curious how that single line 

 in which the ape clause is alone serious absolutely 

 reflects the entire spirit of the compilation in hand, and 

 not less that of the shallow enlightenment of the day. 

 It is to be admitted, at the same time, that what is 

 immediately signalised is of a more glaring quality in the 

 Descent than it is in the Origin. 



The compilation that is the Origin, for all that, has 

 still, in the main, been conducted on the same principles. 

 What the Germans call Tendenz pervades it throughout. 

 Tendenz that would annul slavery pointed to the com- 

 mon origin both of the white and the black in Eden ; 

 but Tendenz that would perpetuate slavery knew that 

 the parentage of the negro was wholly different and 

 brute ! And it is Tendenz that is the soul of the 

 Origin. 



I do not suppose there is any quality for which Mr. 

 Darwin has got more credit than what is called can- 

 dour. Nor do I suppose that any one who has read 

 what we have anywhere hitherto said of Mr. Darwin 

 would reproach us with having made him other than 

 the most upright, honest, veracious, and candid of man- 

 kind. ' Candour is not only the essential characteristic 

 which is seen in Mr. Darwin by others, and we may 

 even say all others, but it seems claimed as not much 

 less by himself. "What an illiberal sentence that is 

 about my pretension to candour." These (ii. 313) are 

 words of Mr. Darwin's own. He shows himself sensitive 

 to that gird upon the part of the Edinburgh Reviewer to 



