the struggle for life--the aesthetic faculties, for example.

"Dwelling for a moment on this last illustration of the class of
difficulties described, let us ask how we are to interpret the
development of the musical faculty; how came there that endowment of
musical faculty which characterises modern Europeans at large, as
compared with their remote ancestors? The monotonous chants of low
savages cannot be said to show any melodic inspiration; and it is
not evident that an individual savage who had a little more musical
perception than the rest would derive any such advantage in the
maintenance of life as would secure the spread of his superiority by
inheritance of the variation," &c.

It should be observed that the passage given in the last paragraph
but one appeared in 1864, only five years after the first edition of
the "Origin of Species," but, crushing as it is, Mr. Darwin never
answered it. He treated it as nonexistent--and this, doubtless from
a business standpoint, was the best thing he could do. How far such
a course was consistent with that single-hearted devotion to the
interests of science for which Mr. Darwin developed such an abnormal
reputation, is a point which I must leave to his many admirers to
determine.



CHAPTER VIII--Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm



One would think the issue stated in the three preceding chapters was