31 All the Articles of tie Darwin FaitJt. 



existence, than that possessed by the brutes. Bnt, apart 

 from these considerations, if such views as he advances on 

 the nature of the moral senses were generally accepted, it 

 seems evident that morality wonld lose all elements of 

 stable authority, and the ' ever fixed marks ' around which 

 the tempests of human passion now break themselves, 

 would cease to exert their guiding and controlling in- 

 fluence." 



" It should be the work of science to reveal this 

 difference, not to construct theories on its mere apparent 

 magnitude. But Mr. Darwin urges that this homological 

 construction of the whole frame in the members of the 

 same class is intelligible if we admit their descent from a 

 common progenitor, together with their subsequent 

 adaption to diversified conditions. ' On any other view,' 

 he says, ' the similarity of pattern between the hand of a 

 man or monkey, the foot of a horse, the flipper of a seal, 

 the wing of a bat, etc., is utterly inexplicable.' We fail to 

 see the inexplicability. What is there unreasonable in the 

 supposition that they have all been formed on the same 

 general plan ? Mr. Darwin's only objection is that ' this 

 is no scientific explanation/ but this is simply to beg the 

 question." 



