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genitors, abounds with dangerous beasts — How man's ' 



progenitors may hare escaped them when losing their 



brute-like powers — They may, however, have inhabited 



some safer country — The brain of man in comparison i 



with the brain of the ape ... ... ... ... ... 77 — 88 ] 



Fifth Day's Sitting. — Close of Mr. Darwin's Defence. j 



Man's mental and moral powers — The lowest savages •] 



resemble us in the mental faculty — Points on whish man ' 

 is said to dififer essentially from the lower animals — 



Capacity for progressive improvement — The manufacture ; 



of tools — The use of fire — The orang's first step in archi- | 



tecture — Language — General ideas, abstraction, &c. — ' 



Sense of beauty — Belief in God — E«ligion — Eeasoning : 



power of Mr. Darwin's dog — Can a dog distinguish , 



between moral right and wrong ? — Mr. Darwin's views ' 



of conscience aud the moral sense — The new and ■ j 

 strange morality to which his principles lead — How 



family murder might have been a sacred duty — i 



Sympathy for the weik and helpless causes a degene- i 

 ration of the race of man — Probable efiect of Mr. 



Darwin's principles on the rising generation — Yisionary j 



Speculations — The mystery of life 89 — 133 > 



Sixth Day's Sitting. Summing up by Lord C. 



Ancient and more recent speculations on the origin of 

 the universe and of man — No views hitherto put forth ', 



on Evolution, have been established — Mr. Darwin's ] 



style of argument — He now admits the existence of ' 



imknown agencies — Past history and present experience ; 



against him — Many living species have remained un- j 



changed during 3000 generations — The sterility of cross j 



breeds — Geology — Professor Huxley and the pedigree j 



of the horse — Professor Owen — Rudiments — A wonderful : 



transformation — Mr. Darwin's ape excepted, monkeys 

 have remained monkeys for millions of ages — The 

 mental faculty — The Darvrinian morality — What it in- 

 volves, practical atheism — The dogma of separate 

 creations not taught in Scripture — Darwinism and 

 Christianity irreconcilable — Lord C.'s award — Homo's 

 proposal for a settlement of the case — Lord C.'s closing 

 advice to Mr. Darwin 134 — 155 



