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give an advantage to those individuals who 

 vary in the direction of intellectual or aesthetic 

 excellence, what is there to interfere with the 

 belief that these higher faculties, like the rest, owe 

 their development to natural selection ? 



Finally, with respect to the development of the 

 moral sense out of the simple feelings of pleasure 

 and pain, liking and disliking, with which the 

 lower animals are provided, I can find nothing in 

 Mr. Wallace's reasonings which has not already 

 been met by Mr. Mill, Mr. Spencer, or Mr. 

 Darwin. 



I do not propose to follow the Quarterly 

 Reviewer and Mr. Mivart through the long string 

 of objections in matters of detail which they 

 bring against Mr. Darwin's views. Every one who 

 has considered the matter carefully will be able to 

 ferret out as many more " difficulties " ; but he 

 will also, I believe, fail as completely as they 

 appear to me to have done, in bringing forward 

 any fact which is really contradictory of Mr. 

 Darwin's views. Occasionally, too, their objections 

 and criticisms are based upon errors of their own. 

 As, for example, when Mr. Mivart and the 

 Quarterly Reviewer insist upon the resemblances 

 between the eyes of Cephalopoda and Vertebrata, 

 quite forgetting that there are striking and alto- 

 gether fundamental differences between them ; or 

 when the Quarterly Reviewer corrects Mr. Darwin 



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