CltAP. II. 
MENTAL POWERS. 
(13 
That animals retain their mental individuality is 
Unquestionable. When my voice awakened a train of 
associations in the mind of the above-mentioned 
^°g; he must have retained his mental individuality,, 
although everv atom of his brain had probably under- 
gone change more than once during the interval of five 
years. This dog might have brought forward the 
ar gument lately advanced to crush all evolutionists, 
ai ' ( l said, “I abide amid all mental moods and all 
‘ Material changes. . . . The teaching that atoms leave 
their impressions as legacies to other atoms falling 
. "‘to the places they have vacated is contradictory of 
([ utterance of consciousness, and is therefore false ; 
( out it ig the teaching necessitated by evolutionism, 
consequently the hypothesis is a false one.” 4!l 
Sense of Beauty . — This sense has been declared to 
Je peculiar to man. But when we behold male birds 
uaborately displaying their plumes and splendid colours 
"fore the females, whilst other birds not thus deco- 
lfl t°d make no such display, it is impossible to doubt 
'at the females admire the beauty of their male part- 
ners. As women everywhere deck themselves with 
.ese plumes, the beauty of such ornaments cannot be 
O'sputed. The Bower-birds by tastefully ornamenting 
eir playing-passages with gaily-coloured objects, as 
0 certain humming-birds their nests, otter additional 
evidence that they possess a sense of beauty. So with 
t |(! s °ng of birds, the sweet strains poured forth by the 
juales during the season of love are certainly admired 
y the females, of which fact evidence will hereafter be 
gjven. If female birds had been incapable of appre- 
ciating the beautiful colours, the ornaments, and voices 
The Piev. Dr. J. MlCann, 1 Anti-Darwinism,’ 1869, p. 13. 
