[71] [The essay mentioned above should be read in explanation of this expression. George Romanes' meaning would be more accurately expressed, I think, had he said: 'The ideal of Christian character holds in prominence the elements which we regard as characteristically feminine, e.g. development of affections, readiness of trust, love of service, readiness to suffer, &c.'—Ed.]
[72] See Analogy, part i. ch. 7; part ii. ch. 3, 4, &c.
[73] See Conclusion of Darwin and After Darwin, part I.
[74] I should somewhere show how much better a treatise Butler might have written had he known about evolution as the general law of nature.
[75] See Gore's Bampton Lectures, lect. ii.
[76] Pensées, pp. 205 ff.
[77] [Romanes' line of argument in this note seems to me impossible to maintain. The emphasis which Jesus Christ lays on diabolic agency is so great that, if it is not a reality, He must be regarded either as seriously misled about realities which concern the spiritual life, or else as seriously misleading others. And in neither case could He be even the perfect Prophet. I think I am justified in explaining my disagreement with Romanes' argument at this point particularly.—Ed.]
[78] [There is nothing in Darwin's writings which seems to me to justify Romanes in attributing this difficulty to him specially. But he knew Darwin so intimately and reverenced him so profoundly that he is not likely to have been in error on the subject.—Ed.]