...with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense of conscience as soon as his intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man;' and that ' reason, ... of which man boasts, mny be found in an incipient, and even sometimes in a welldeveloped,...

...endowed with well-marked social instincts,5 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...

...conscience is only regret at not having followed the strongest permanent instinct. "Any animal whatever would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers could compare its instincts. The dissatisfaction which inevitably results from any unsatisfied instinct...

...hop< the practice of begging the question at issue, the folargu«. lowing assertion piay be quoted: Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism; it is a truism, for of course,...

...begging the question at issue, the folquestion he f . ° »rgoe». lowing assertion may be quoted : " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man " (vol. ip 71). This is either a monstrous assumption or a mere truism ; it is a truism, for of course,...

...analogous to what I have already observed with regard to their deficiency in moral qualities, and ' " Any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social...or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers have become as well developed as in man." — Darwin's Descent of Man, &c., vol. i. pp. 71, 72. Reid,...

...experiences, from the social instinct, including sympathy. He regards it as in a high degree probable, f " that any animal whatever, endowed with wellmarked...developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.' * See " Contemporary Review," Aug., 1876. t "Descent af Man," vol. i., p. 68. In this view the moral...

...by far the most important." t To this, nevertheless, is added, as highly probable, the proposition, that " any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Assuming the propriety of Mr Darwin's explanation of the moral sense, this proposition, however, is...

...proposition, that " any animal whateverA endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevi- jp tably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its/...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Assuming the propriety of Mr Darwin's explanation of the moral sense, this proposition, however, is...

...moral sense (Descent of Man, vol. i. chap, iii.) is, that he thinks it " in a high degree probable that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked...developed, or nearly as well developed, as in man." Thus Darwin derives conscience from the combined operation of the social instincts and of the intellectual...