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CHAPTER VIII. 



CONCLUDING REMARKS. 



In the foregoing chapters we have set forth and esti- 

 mated, to the best of our ability, the arguments of what 

 may be deemed the crowning effort of that school which 

 would deduce all the faculties of the human intellect 

 from the powers of the lower animals. The author of 

 the book we have criticized is a man in many ways ex- 

 ceptionally gifted. Earnest, versatile, active, and indus- 

 trious, and able to devote as much time as he pleases 

 to the prosecution of what is evidently a labour of love, 

 we think it unlikely that he can be succeeded by any 

 one better qualified personally for the task he has under- 

 taken. When we further call to mind the fact that he 

 has had the advantage of intimacy with the late Mr. 

 Charles Darwin, and with the still surviving Mr. Herbert 

 Spencer, and that he also enjoys the friendship and 

 sympathy of most of the leading members of the party 

 of whose opinions he is the exponent, we deem it 

 extremely improbable that any one could come forth 

 from a more favourable environment than that from 

 which he issues, as a champion specially trained and 

 carefully armed, to do effective battle against the 

 asserters of the essential intellectuality of man. 



