96 HOMO V. DARWIN. 



Homo. My Lord, Mr. Darwin says that his object, in 

 the second chapter of his work, " is solely to show that 

 there is no fundamental difference between man and the 

 higher mammals in their mental faculties," but he nowhere 

 tells us what he would regard as such a difference. He 

 maintains, however, that man's faculties do not differ in 

 hind from those of the lower animals, and that man's 

 superiority arises entirely from his being more perfectly 

 developed. 



Lm'd G. Development, then, alone, is to account for man's 

 superiority. 



Homo. Just so, my Lord. Tbe lofty faculties of man 

 were once in embryo in a thing like a tadpole ! The mind 

 of Newton once lay hid in a creature which "hardly 

 appeared like an animal " — which consisted merely of " a 

 simple, tough, leathery sac, with two small projecting 

 orifices," and which stuck to a rock or bit of seaweed that 

 it might not be carried away by the tide. Then, my Lord, 

 as to the development which Mr. Darwin thinks would turn 

 the faculties of a brute into human reason, we have no 

 evidence that it is a possible thing. 



Lord G. Mr. Darwin has certainly adduced none. It 

 will not be necessary for us to consider the instincts which 

 are common to man with the lower animals. You admit, 1 

 suppose. Homo, that there are many points in which those 

 instincts resemble one another ? 



Homo. Unquestionably, my Lord. Man has an animal 

 nature, like the inferior creatures around him, and must 

 consequently, in many respects, resemble them. The 

 question is, whether man has not also a higher nature 

 which they do not partake of, and cannot comprehend, and 

 with which they can have no sympathy. "We may therefore 

 pass by what Mr. Darwin says on "instincts which are 



