...endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience...as its intellectual •powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. ' ' 9 Those practices and beliefs which originate in this instinct...

...whatever, endowed with wellmarked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure...

...that it seems to him in a high degree probable "that any animal whatever, endowed with well marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as the intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." It is...

...Cf. C. Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, London, 1871, Vol. I, pp. 71-73. "The following proposition seems to me in a high degree...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man. ... It may be well first to premise that I do not wish to maintain that any strictly social animal,...

...are common to the higher animals, and suggests the probable development of a morality from these. " The following proposition seems to me in a high degree...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." (1st edit., Vol. I, pp. 71, 72.) Darwin accounts for the more or less settled character of moral standards...

...so-called moral sense. "The 1 Descent of Man (1871). Darwin lays down "the following proposition aa in a high degree probable: namely, that any animal...whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...

...whatever, endowed with wellmarked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man "? It would be no difficult matter to prove, from the Sonnets,...

...made an interesting statement bearing on this subject. He said, "The following proposition seems to be in a high degree probable; namely, that any animal...inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as the intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." His...

...animal whatever endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience...soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well, developed as in man. In other words, given man's individual endowments and his social...

...far the study of the lower animals can throw light on one of the highest psychical faculties of man. The following proposition seems to me in a high degree...any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as 1 ' Metaphysics of Ethics,'...