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ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to energy and 

 perseverance, and to have her reason and imagination 

 exercised to the highest point, and then she would prob- 

 ably transmit these qualities chiefly to her adult daugh- 

 ters." Here we have a plan of women's higher education 

 according to the great evolutionist, although he does not 

 assert that it is the essential and desirable one; but 

 given a certain object, here is the best method of 

 securing it. "The whole body of women, however, 

 could not be thus raised, unless during many generations 

 the women who excelled in the above robust virtues 

 were married, and produced offspring in larger numbers 

 than other women." 



The doctrine that man is descended from some less 

 highly organised form, Darwin asserts in his concluding 

 chapter, rests on grounds which will never be shaken 

 namely, the similar structure and course of development 

 of embryos of the higher animals, and vast numbers of 

 facts of structure and constitution, rudimental structures, 

 and abnormal reversions. The mental powers of the 

 higher animals graduate into those of man. Language, 

 and the use of tools, made man dominant. The brain 

 then immensely developed, and morality sprang from the 

 social instinct. Comparing and approving certain actions 

 and disapproving others, remembering and looking back, 

 he became conscientious and imaginative. Sympathy, 

 arising in the desire to give aid to one's fellows, was 

 strengthened by praise and blame, and conduces to 

 happiness. "As happiness is an essential part of the 

 general good, the greatest happiness principle indirectly 

 serves as a nearly safe standard of right and wrong. . . . 



