The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer. Gerard John

95

As regards Protoplasm, p. 21.

96

Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Biology."

97

Printed in Lay Sermons.

98

Nature, June 5, 1902, p. 121.

99

Id. ibid.

100

Op. cit. p. 27.

101

Presidential Address, British Association, 1887.

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.

112

In his paper read before the British Association at Oxford in 1847.

113

Lessons from Nature, p. 89.

114

See Mivart, Origin of Human Reason, p. 166.

115

See Louis Arnould, Une âme en prison, and article "An imprisoned Soul," by the Ctesse. de Courson, The Month, January, 1902, p. 82.

116

Descent of Man, i. 57.

117

i. e. ape-like.

118

Quoted by Romanes, Mental Evolution in Man.

119

Ibid., p. 371.

120

Origin of Human Reason, p. 385.

121

Op. cit. p. 379.