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genitors, abounds with dangerous beasts How man's 

 progenitors may have escaped them when losing their 

 brute-like powers They may, however, have inhabited 

 some safer country The brain of man in comparison 

 with the brain of the ape 77 88 



FIFTH DAY'S SITTING. Close of Mr. Darwin's Defence. 



Man's mental and moral powers The lowest savages 

 resemble us in the mental faculty Points on whi -h man 

 is said to differ essentially from the lower animals 

 Capacity for progressive improvement The manufacture 

 of tools The u;e of fire The orang's first step in archi- 

 tecture Language General ideas, abstraction, &c. 

 Sense of beauty Belief in God Beligion Reasoning 

 power of Mr. Darwin's dog Can a dog distinguish 

 between moral right and wrong ? Mr. Darwin's views 

 of conscience and the moral sense The new and 

 strange morality to which his principles lead How 

 family murder might have been a sacred duty 

 Sympathy for the we k and helpless causes a degene- 

 ration of the race of man Probable effect of Mr. 

 Darwin's principles on the rising generation V sionary 

 Speculations The mystery of life 89133 



SIXTH DAY'S SITTING. Summing up by Lord C. 



Ancient and more recent specu ations on the origin of 

 the universe and of man No views hitherto put forth 

 on Evolution have been established Mr. Darwin's 

 htvle of argument He n w admits the existence of 

 unknown agencies Past history and present experience 

 agai st him Many living species have remained un- 

 cha.iged during 3000 generations The sterility ot cross 

 ds G-eology Professor Huxley and the pedigree 

 of the horse Professor Owen Ru liments A wonderful 

 transformation Mr. Darwin's ape excepted, monkeys 

 have remained monkeys f >r millions of ages The 

 mental faculty The Darwin :m morality What it in- 

 volves, jir.ctical atheism The dogma of separate 

 creations not taught in Scripture Darwinism and 

 -ty irreconcilable Lord C.'s awar.l Homo's 

 /oml for a xritlcmeut of the case Lord C.'s closing 

 advice to Mr 1' ...134 l."5 



