[212] Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles, 4to, vol. i, p. 59, 1831.
[213] Histoire Naturelle Générale, vol. iii, p. 389.
[214] “What would be thought of a breeder who took Norman colts or Flemish calves to the high lands of the Alps and the Pyrenees, and then expected to see them reproduce (their training having been finished) all the pure characteristics of the original races?”—Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire Naturelle Générale, vol. iii, p. 307.
[215] See Verneuil, Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, February 2, 1860.—Bonté, ibidem, August 6, 1863.
[216] [“A priest who has drunk wine shall migrate into a moth or a fly, feeding on ordure. He who steals the gold of a priest, shall pass a thousand times into the bodies of spiders. If a man shall steal honey, he shall be born a great stinging gnat; if oil, an oil-drinking beetle; if salt, a cicada; if a household utensil, an ichneumon fly” (Institutes of Menu, § 353). Thus, apparently with regard to comparison, the Hindú considers insects to be the lowest form of animal life, into which moral criminals are to pass after death, according to their doctrine of metempsychosis.—Editor.]
[217] [Why will some scientific men persist in separating, so strongly, religion and science, as if both could not be practised? This is what the “master of science” appears to think. Each student of science may well apply the following lines: “It is your duty to go on steadfastly, unwaveringly, ohne Hast, ohne Rast, conscious that you interpret, to the best of your finite ability, your conceptions of the truths of science, equally conscious that whatever may be the immediate result of your labours, they must eventually fulfil the aspiration which tends ad majorem Dei gloriam.”—C. Carter Blake On the Doctrine of Final Causes (Hastings Philosophical Society, meeting of January 13, 1864).—Editor.]
[218] Robin, Mémoire sur la Production du Blastoderme (Journal de Physiologie, p. 358, 1862).
[219] It is thus that we do not see realised in man that general law which decrees that animal species are large in proportion to the continent which they inhabit; the mean size of the mammalia, in particular, is regularly proportional to the extent of Australia, America, the ancient continent, and the bottom of the ocean.
[220] Compare Mitchell, An Essay upon the Causes of the Different Colours, etc. (Philosophical Transactions, 1745.)
[221] “Sole colorari homines non dubium, eosque autem ut nigrescant non constat.” Albinus, De Sede et Causa Coloris Æthiopum, p. 12. He also says, still speaking of Negroes, that they are coloured, “quod suum parentes colorem in liberos propagant ...; æthiops fœmina si cum mare æthiope rem habuerit, æthiopem, ni quid forte natura ludat, gignit; alba si cum albo, album.”—Ibidem, p. 10. It is in some manner the permanence of a declared type.