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affair of nature as oxygen itself or carbon either. I 

 cannot bet/in with the inorganic, as though the organic 

 were but its consequent, its accident. For that demon- 

 stration were necessary demonstration of the actual 

 transition of the one into the other, of the inorganic into 

 the organic but any such demonstration is as yet not. 

 As said, it were to Mr. Darwin, and the many that think 

 as he, the goal, th'e aim, the " unimaginable lodge ; " but 

 it is as yet in the waste, and no more than a Fata 

 Morgana in the waste : it may " dodge conception to the 

 very bourne of heaven, but it leaves the naked brain at 

 last ! " 



It is a necessity of Mr. Darwin's own, then, that he 

 commence with an animality of some kind, let it be of 

 whatever kind it may. It is also a necessity of Mr. 

 Darwin's own that expression with that first animality 

 be direct (some one thing or other must be original and 

 prime). 



But, as again and again said, what occasion is there 

 to refer all expression now to that expression then ? 

 Why should expression not be direct still ? If it were 

 so if it were direct still, the wonder supposing there 

 were wonder, ought to be no greater now than it ought 

 to have been then. 



His predecessor Hume did not teach as Mr. Darwin 

 teaches. " We must first show the correspondence of 

 passions in men and animals." This is said by Hume 

 (T. ii. i. 12); and it seems so much mere repetition on 

 the part of Darwin that one might be forgiven if one 

 speculated on an influence from the one to the other, 

 from the former to the latter. Certainly Mr. Darwin 

 expressly puts forward precisely such correspondence 

 as his sole object in dealing at all with the subject 

 of expression. But Hume, unlike Darwin, takes the 

 animals even now to express themselves directly. " The 



