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histone: that he had RS 
y ] hat e organ of the mind, 
which now, ral im prae abov ve the highes Moe utes;—at a peri 
Leur he had the form but hardly the nature of man, when he vga ro aa human a aa 
r those sympathetic and moral fe oleae which in a greater or less degree everywhere 
oa the Tace Just in propor rtion bei these truly human faculties became Saai in 
him, ld hi 1 d and permanent, because -— latter would be of 
less ir cine e to his well being; he would be kept in harmony with the slowly changing uni- 
verse und him, by an advance in mind, rather than by a change in body, If, therefore, we 
are of fees that he was not really man till these higher faculties were fully developed, we 
may fairly assert that there were many originally distinct races of men; while, if we think 
thas a oeng — €— 4 us des a wig or but with mental faculties scarcely 
ave been human, we are fully entitled to 
maintain the common origin of all mankind." 
With regard to the limits of the action of this law we quote the follow- 
ing interesting and Se sonne ~ 
“Mr. Darwin himself has taken care to impress upon us, that iaid A has no 
power to produce absolute perfection 1 but only aan perfection, o power to advance ae 
ue much beyond his fellow b t ble it to 
em in the struggle for ae Still les S has it any ‘powe r to produce m moaietions 
whieh a are ^" nd degree injarions: to Ma possessor, eu Mr. Darwin frequently uses the strong 
hi y. If, therefo: Ni we a in 
1 . whieh all tl show would have been actu- 
y cou uld not t possibly have i produced by 
uiia seleetion. MR could any seca a eveloped organ have been so produced if it 
had aig n merely u ss to him, or if its were not proportionate to its degree of develop- 
uch cases as t -— ese hp haa pee. some other law, or some other power, than 
d selection ” had been at work." 
The author than Wed d to show that the brain of the savage is use- 
lessly large, being on an average over two and a half times the capacity 
of that of a Gorilla and nearly seven-eighths of the average = ucasian, or 
civilized European. n by the 
Size of the unused brain, cannot be accounted for by na iaia selection, 
since it is evidently, as shown above, something provided which is not in 
use and for which a daily necessity does not exist. 
The hairless condition of the back in man is also, as pointed out by Mr. 
Wallace, a characteristic which among naked savages is decidedly a dis- 
oe and equally unaccountable on the principles of natural selec- 
tion. 
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somewhat unquestioning and hasty acceptation of Darwinism whic 
Seems to have become the fashion. 
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* The Difficulties of the Theory of Natnral Selection, Scientifie Opinion, Nov. 10, Dec. 1, 
1869. Nos. 54-57, Vol. 2. 
