MR. M1VART AND MR. DARWIN. 293 



As for the possible development of the more brutal 

 human natures from the more brutal instincts of the 

 lower animals, those who read a horrible story told in a 

 note, pp. 233, 234 of Mr. Mivart's " Genesis of Species," 

 will feel no difficulty on that score. I must admit, 

 however, that the telling of that story seems to me to 

 be a mistake in a philosophical work, which should not, 

 I think, unless under compulsion, deal either with the 

 horrors of the French Eevolution — or of the Spanish or 

 Italian Inquisition. 



For the rest of Mr. Mivart's objections, I must refer 

 the reader to his own work. I have been unable to 

 find a single one, which I do not believe to be easily 

 met by the Lamarckian view, with the additions (if 

 indeed they are additions, for I must own to no very 

 profound knowledge of what Lamarck did or did not 

 say), which I have in this volume proposed to make to 

 it. At the same time I admit, that as against the Dar- 

 winian view, many of them seem quite unanswerable. 



