[106] "Biology," i, p. 482.
[107] "Biology," i, Appendix, pp. 483, 484.
[108] "Biology," i, p. 408.
[109] "Biology," i, pp. 409, 410.
[110] "Biology," i, p. 482.
[111] Now contained in "Biology," i, Appendix.
[112] Quoted by M. Guizot in his "History of France," vol. vi, p. 328. Guizot observes that Buffon was "absolutely unshackled by any religious prejudice," and that he "involuntarily recurred to the account given in Genesis."
[113] Probably Kosmicos did not mean that man excels all other animals in the delicacy and perfection of his nervous organization, for some of his senses are inferior to those of some of the other animals, as his movements are less swift. Apparently his meaning is that, taken as a whole, the nervous organization of man evinces the greatest power of variation and the widest range of action.
[114] Darwin's "Descent of Man," pp. 608, 609.
[115] Darwin's "Origin of Species," p. 428.