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oped under the law of Natural Selection." l In short, 

 the conclusion 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 

 manner and by the action of the same general laws as 

 his physical structure has been derived." 2 



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 succeeded in 

 lessening to his own mind the infinite distance be- 

 tween the Mind of Man and everything else in Nature, 

 and even the most consistent evolutionists are as 

 unanimous as those who oppose them, in their asser- 

 tion of the uniqueness of the higher intellectual 

 powers. The consensus of scientific opinion here is 

 extraordinary. " I know nothing," says Huxley, in 

 the name of biology, "and never hope to know 

 anything, of the steps by which the passage from 

 molecular movement to states of consciousness is 

 effected." 8 " The two things," emphasizes the physi- 

 cist, "are on two utterly different platforms, the 

 physical facts go along by themselves, and the men- 

 tal facts go along by themselves." * " It is all through 



1 Darwinism, p. 469. 2 Ibid., p. 461. 



3 Contemporary Eeview, 1871. 



4 Clifford, Fortnightly Review, 1874. 



