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individuality is unquestionable. "When my voice awakened 

 a train o: old associations in the mind of my dog, he must 

 have retained his mental individuality, although every 

 atom of his brain had probably undergone change more 

 than once during the interval of five years. This dog 

 might have brought forward the argument lately advanced 

 to crush all evolutionists, and said, 'I abide amid all 

 mental moods and all material changes.' " (Vol. i. p. 63.) 



Homo. No doubt, my Lord, Mr. Darwin's dog was the 

 same dog he had been five years before, but, unquestionably, 

 the dog did not possess that consciousness of his own 

 mental individuality that would have enabled him either to 

 reflect on it, or to affirm it. Mr. Darwin puts the words, 

 " I abide amid all mental moods and all material changes," 

 in his dog's mouth ; but he cannot suppose either this 

 thought, or this consciousness, to have existed in the dog's 

 mind. 



Lord C. It thus appears, Mr. Darwin, that you cannot 

 prove any of the inferior animals to be possessed of the 

 high faculties in question Self -consciousness, Abstraction,, 

 General Ideas, or Individuality. When apes, and dogs, and 

 horses become capable of abstraction, and can form general 

 ideas, they will be able to use their powers of reason and 

 imagination to better purpose than at present. 



Darwin. The next point, my Lord, is " The sense of 

 beauty. This sense has been declared to be peculiar to 

 man. But when we behold male birds elaborately dis- 

 playing their plumes and splendid colours before the 

 females, while other birds, not thus decorated, make no 

 such display, it is impossible to doubt that the females 

 admire the beauty of their male partners." (Vol. i. p. 63.) 



Homo. I willingly grant, my Lord, that the beauty of 

 birds is a source of enjoyment to them, but this is quite a 



