III. 



DR. BATEMAN ON DARWINISM.^ 



Dr. Bateman'S argument against Darwinism is 

 based upon a fallacy which is quite commonly 

 shared by those who have failed to comprehend the 

 doctrine of evolution.^ This is the fallacy of sup- 

 posing that the Darwinian theory can be overthrown 

 simply by insisting upon the obvious fact that the 

 intelligence and acquirements of man are enormously 

 — almost incommensurably — greater than the intelli- 

 gence and acquirements of the highest apes. As 

 urged in the case of language, Dr. Bateman's argu- 

 ment is not original with him, as he seems to sup- 

 pose ; it has already been urged by Max Miiller, a 



1 Darwinism Tested by Language. By Frederic Bateman, M.D. 

 With a Preface by E. M. Goulburn, D.D., Dean of Norwich. London. 

 New York : Scribner and Welford. 1878. 



2 On this point see my Outlines of Cos?nic Philosophy, 1874, Part II., 

 chaps, xxi., xxii. 



