[88] "Biology," i, p. 388.
[89] "Biology," i, pp. 390, 391.
[90] "Biology," i, p. 396.
[91] "Biology," i, p. 399. It is to be noted that the relationship here referred to is supposed or apparent kinship between the aggregate of the surviving and the aggregate of the extinct forms which have died out in recent geologic times. But this does not supply the steps of descent by which any one surviving form can be traced back to any one extinct form.
[92] "Biology," i, p. 401.
[93] "Essays," vol. iii, pp. 293-296.
[94] For the answer to the objection that we thus ascribe anthropomorphic attributes to the Supreme Being, see infra.
[95] Webster's Dictionary, "Phenomenon."
[96] Our other American lexicographer, Worcester, who was pretty strict in regard to the words which he admitted into the English language, gives the word "noumenon," but he was careful to designate its arbitrary use. His definition is this:
"Noumenon, n. [Gr. νοῦς, the mind.] In the philosophy of Kant, an
object in itself, not relatively to us; opposed to phenomenon.
Fleming."