[130] See on this subject copious evidence in Chap. vii. of Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Origin of Civilisation,’ 1870.
[131] For instance Lecky, ‘Hist. European Morals,’ vol. i. p. 124.
[132] This term is used in an able article in the ‘Westminster Review,’ Oct. 1869, p. 498. For the Greatest Happiness principle, see J. S. Mill, ‘Utilitarianism,’ p. 17.
[133] Good instances are given by Mr. Wallace in ‘Scientific Opinion,’ Sept. 15, 1869; and more fully in his ‘Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection,’ 1870, p. 353.
[134] Tennyson, ‘Idylls of the King,’ p. 244.
[135] ‘The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus,’ Eng. translat., 2nd edit., 1869, p. 112. Marcus Aurelius was born A.D. 121.
[136] Letter to Mr. Mill in Bain’s ‘Mental and Moral Science,’ 1868, p. 722.
[137] A writer in the ‘North British Review’ (July, 1869, p. 531), well capable of forming a sound judgment, expresses himself strongly to this effect. Mr. Lecky (‘Hist. of Morals,’ vol. i. p. 143) seems to a certain extent to coincide.
[138] See his remarkable work on ‘Hereditary Genius,’ 1869, p. 349. The Duke of Argyll (‘Primeval Man,’ 1869, p. 188) has some good remarks on the contest in man’s nature between right and wrong.
[139] ‘The Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius,’ &c., p. 139.