[102] Les Emules de Darwin, ii. 66.
[103] Op. cit. ii. 63.
[104] Darwinism, p. 474.
[105] The other stages presenting similar difficulties are the 5th and 6th of Du Bois-Reymond's Enigmas, viz. the introduction of sensation or consciousness (animal life), and of rational thought and speech.
[106] Contemporary Review, January, 1878, p. 298.
[107] Die sieben Welträthsel, D. 82.
[108] Professor Huxley, it must be remarked, speaks of Homer as a "half savage Greek" (Lay Sermons, p. 12), and intimates a mild wonder that such a being could share our feelings in presence of nature to so large an extent as his poems testify. This is undoubtedly a fine example of the good conceit of ourselves which the pursuit of science is rather apt to produce.
[109] Darwinism, p. 475.
[110] Descent of Man, c. ii.
[111] Ibid. 54.