...selection, and partly because no one has examined it exclusively from the side of natural history : — ' The following proposition seems to me in a high degree...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts...

...fellows, as well as enabling him to think concerning these instincts. Hence Mr. Darwin says :— " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." The argument is peculiar: —...

...all." Mr. Darwin thinks that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, wonld inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." * In enunciating this dictum...

...Mr. Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, we may quote the following assertion : — ' Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man' (vol. ip 71). This is "either...

...very great in assumptions and probabilities, and he lays down the following proposition as seeming in a high degree probable, namely, " That any animal...whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...

...basis for the moral sense or conscience of the human race. '' The following proposition," he says, " seems to me in a high degree probable — namely,...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." For, firstly, the social instincts...

...Darwin's practice of begging the question at issue, •we may quote the following assertion : — '• Any animal whatever, endowed with •well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either...

...modifications of past generations have undergone. And the late Mr. Darwin thought it probable in a high degree that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as man's. DAMON. I have the greatest respect...

...fras approached it exclusively from the side of natural history. The investigation possesses, also, some independent interest, as an attempt to see how...acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellect«1 Metaphysics of Ethics,' translated by JW Semplc, Edinburgh, 1836, p. 136. 4 Mr. Bain gives...

...has approached it exclusively from the side of natural history. The investigation possesses, also, some independent interest, as an attempt to see how...any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as 1 ' Metaphysics of Ethics,'...