The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

316' APPENDIX.rudiments of almost all the faculties of man are to bemet with in the lower animals; that there is a unity ofmental faculty, as well as of bodily structure, and thathere also, the difference is a difference of degree andnot of kind."-Lecture on " The Study of Biology," byProfessor Huxley, ATature, vol. xv. p. 219. Deliveredat South Kensington Museum, London, December 16,1876. On the grounds here admirably summarized, itis clear that the whole organism of our world has beenconstructed on a common plan. This being true, similaritieswill appear in process of development, and inthe structure and functions of different orders. Thissimilarity, however, does not help us to explain "thelarge and important interval" which appears whenmental characteristics are considered. It makes thediversity of mental power more d%cult to explain byreference to organism, in fact contributing to thestrength of evidence for mind as a form of existencedistinct from organism.V.EMBRPOLOC~P. Page 131.I have not felt warranted to include in the text anysummary of results secured by the important, but verydifficult, investigations concerning the growth of animallife in the womb. This whole department of inquiryis in such an unfinished and uncertain state,that there is not warrant tofound upon the evidencealready obtained any general argument as to its bearingon a theory of evolution. The most competent