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And that there is every degree of these absolute quali- 

 ties visible in living creatures ; and that the divinity of 

 the Mind of man is in its essential discernment of what 

 is /ca\ov from what is alo"%pov, and in his preference of 

 the kind of creatures which are decent, to those which are 

 indecent ; and of the kinds of thoughts, in himself, which 

 are noble, to those which are vile. 



4. When therefore I said that Mr. Darwin, and his 

 school,* had no conception of the real meaning of the 

 word * proper,' I meant that they conceived the qualities 

 of things only as their ' properties,' but not as their ' be- 

 comingn esses ; ' and seeing that dirt is proper to a swine, 

 malice to a monkey, poison to a nettle, and folly to a fool, 

 they called a nettle but a nettle, and the faults of fools 

 but folly ; and never saw the difference between ugliness 

 and beauty absolute, decency and indecency absolute, 

 glory or shame absolute, and folly or sense absolute. 



Whereas, the perception of beauty, and the power of 

 defining physical character, are based on moral instinct, 

 and on the power of defining animal or human character. 

 Nor is it possible to say that one flower is more highly 

 developed, or one animal of a higher order, than another, 

 without the assumption of a divine law of perfection to 

 which the one more conforms than the other. 



5. Thus, for instance. That it should ever have been 

 an open question with me whether a poppy had always 



* Of Vespertilian science generally, compare * Eagles' Nest/ pp. 25 

 and 179. 



