...modified; so that we must not overrate the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time. In the future I see open fields for far more important researches....necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity 31 by gradation. Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Authors of the highest...

...full the hint which, at the end of the Origin of Species, Darwin threw out in a brief sentence : " Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." . Darwin's desire not to unduly 1II. 190. »il. 192. prejudice the minds of readers to whom his theory...

...placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future." 2 "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on newly laid down foundations; that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by...

...creation. Darwin foresaw this from the first, and in the " Origin of Species " asserted his belief that " much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." * Now, if this had only meant a chemical analysis of " the dust of the ground," out of which man was...

...which I really meant ' appeared by some wholly unknown process.'" In the work itself he says that " light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history " (as indeed it was by his Descent of Man in 1871); but this was disconcerting to those who believed...

...development, for he says — " In the distant future, Psychology will be based on a new foundation, that of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." It is not the first time by far that the gratuitous theory of spontaneous development has been propounded....

...with which he was prepared personally to deal He writes, in The Origin of Species2, "In the future I see open fields for far more important researches....acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation." Nowhere, it is true, does Darwin definitely say that he regarded religion as a set of phenomena, the...

...modification to the change of circumstances. The author (1855) has also treated Psychology on the principle of the necessary acquirement of each mental power and capacity by gradation. In 1852 M. Naudin, a distinguished botanist, expressly stated, in an admirable paper on the Origin...

...named though clearly referred to. Elsewhere (Origin, Ed. ip 488) the author is bolder and writes " Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history." In Ed. vi. p. 668, he writes " Much light &c." 3 For the history of this sentence (with which the Origin...

...the foreground, never flinched from recognizing that man could not be excluded from his theory. ." Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history " (Origin, ed. i. 488). Owen could not face the wrath of fashionable orthodoxy. In his Rede Lecture...