210 Men. 



12. Add to this the further declaration that 

 * our reverence for the ability of manhood will 

 not be lessened by the knowledge that man is, in 

 substance and in structure, one with the brutes." 1 

 And then contrast with both the words that 

 follow. First, there is no physical distinction : 

 "no absolute structural line of demarcation." 

 Second, there is no psychical distinction : for 

 " the attempt to draw a psychical distinction is 

 equally futile." And third, " even the highest 

 faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to 

 germinate in lower forms of life." And yet, the 

 very next sentence is in these words : 



13. "At the same time no one is more 

 strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of 

 the gulf between civilized man and the brutes : 

 or is more certain that whether from them or 

 not, he is assuredly not of them." 2 



To harmonize discordant and conflicting as- 

 sertions like these would be not merely to re- 

 concile the irreconcilable ; it would be to show 

 that opposites are identical. Yet until that is 

 done, what else can we say of them but that 

 which their author has already said so wittily 

 of his opponents ? They are merely " qua" -qui- 

 versal propositions . . . which may be 



1 "Man's Place in Nature," p. 1 12. 

 * Ibid., p. 1 10. 



