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instinct ; in the feeling of religious devotion in man, the 

 loftiest reason comes into play. If a dog's feelings may 

 thus, in the case before us, be compared to a man's, it is 

 not because they proceed from the working of the same, or 

 even of similar faculties. The instinct, or — if you will — 

 the reason of a dog is no more identical with the reason of 

 a man than a shadow is identical with the substance from 

 which it is thrown. 



Lord G. You have said nothing. Homo, on the grand 

 idea of hatred to sin and love to righteousness, which we 

 proposed to bring into the discussion of this point. 



Homo. I beg your Lordship's pardon for the omission. 

 Of course a dog, or any animal whatever, is utterly inca- 

 pable either of understanding or feeling the power of this 

 grand idea. A dog's attachment to his master is altogether 

 irrespective of either sin or righteousness. He will be as 

 much attached to Bill Sikes, if he be his master, as to 

 William "Wilberforce. As to a dog approaching to any- 

 thing like a conception, or a consciousness of a pure and 

 righteous God, such a thing should not even be named ; nor 

 will it be unless by men who have a stronger tendency down- 

 ward towards communion with the brute creation, than up 

 towards God. 



Lord G. Mr. Darwin, I presume, advances nothing more 

 than what has come before us to prove that the capacity of 

 man for religion does not separate him by " an impassable 

 barrier from all the lower animals." 



Homo. Nothing more that I am aware of, my Lord. His 

 second chapter concludes with this subject. In his third 

 chapter he discusses the moral sense. 



Lord G. We shall now hear what he has to say regard- 

 ing it. 



Darwin. " I fully subscribe," my Lord, " to the judgment 



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