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judging of the character of his own con- 

 duct, the individual must now begin to 

 refer it to some law of things outside of 

 himself; and hence the germs of con- 

 science and of the idea of duty. Such 

 were no doubt the crude beginnings of 

 human morality. 



With this genesis of the family, the 

 Creation of Man may be said, in a certain 

 sense, to have been completed. The great 

 extent of cerebral surface, the lengthened 

 period of infancy, the consequent capacity 

 for progress, the definite constitution of 

 the family, and the judgment of actions 

 as good or bad according to some other 

 standard than that of selfish desire, ' 

 these are the attributes which essentially 

 distinguish Man from other creatures. All 

 these, we see, are direct or indirect results 

 of the revolution which began when natu- 

 ral selection came to confine itself to psy- 

 chical variations, to the neglect of physi- 

 cal variations. The immediate result was 

 the increase of cerebrum. This prolonged 



