18 HOMO V. darwi:t. 



closing his eyes to evidence that may be brought from 

 other som-ces, Mr. Darwin makes himself, so far, like a horse 

 when we have put on its blinkers, and which, therefore, can 

 see only in one direction. There is just this difference ; 

 Mr. Darwin makes his own blinkers and puts them on him- 

 self. He is thus disabled from seeing in any line of obser- 

 vation but that of Natural History. He has, moreover, 

 become so blinded by the unnatural use he makes of his eyes, 

 that he cannot see very clearly with them anywhere. 



Lord C. You must speak respectfully of Mr. Darwin, 

 Homo. 



Homo. I beg your Lordship's pardon if I have trans- 

 gressed. I desire to cherish every kind feeling towards 

 Mr. Darwin, but hope, at the same time, that I may not be 

 prevented from fully speaking out my mind. 



Lord C. I understand, then, that Mr. Darwin thinks the 

 evidence which he brings from Natural History as to our 

 descent from a hairy quadruped, and, more remotely, from 

 creatures resembling the larvte of Ascidians, to be so con- 

 clusive as quite to set aside any evidence to the contrary 

 that might be brought from other sources, and, indeed, to 

 render it unworthy of any notice whatever. I understand 

 also that Mr. Darwin does not suppose man to have been 

 immediately produced by this hairy quadruped, but to be 

 merely his remote descendant ; that other races — each suc- 

 ceeding one, I presume, being less ape-like and more 

 human-like — intervened ; and that each of these races, 

 through the power of Natural Selection, produced a fresh 

 race, less like the original, till at length the last of them 

 produced man. 



Darivin. There must, my Lord, have been " a series of 

 forms graduating insensibly from some ape-like creature to 

 man as he now exists." (Vol. i. p. 235.) 



