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his own view as to the origin of Mind, what he 

 attacks in Mr. Darwin's theory of mental evolution 

 is, not the development itself, but only the sup- 

 position that it could have been due to Natural 

 Selection. Mr. Wallace's authority is frequently 

 quoted to show that the mathematical, the musical 

 and the artistic faculties could not have been 

 evolved, whereas all he has really emphasized is 

 that "they could not have been developed under 

 the law of Natural Selection." ^ In short the con- 

 clusion of Mr. Darwin which his colleague found 

 " not to be supported by adequate evidence, and to 

 be directly opposed to many well ascertained facts," 

 was not a general theorem, but a specific one. And 

 many will agree with Mr. Wallace in doubting " that 

 man's entire nature and all his faculties, whether 

 moral, intellectual, or spiritual, have been derived 

 from their rudiments in the lower animals, in 

 the same tnanner and by the action of the same 

 general laws as his physical structure has been 

 derived." ' 



The more this problem has been investigated, 

 the difficulties of the whole field increase, and the 

 off-hand acceptance of any specific evolution theory 

 finds less and less encouragement. No serious 

 thinker, on whichever side of the controversy, has 

 "^ Darwinism^ p. 469. ^ Ibid.^ p. 461. 



