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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER X
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I met him in the Champs Elysees.

He was on horseback.

Well, at one minute he was galloping as hard as he could tear, and then pulled up to a walk.

I said to myself at that moment, 'There is a man devoid of judgment!'" * * * * * The main consideration which this chapter aims to present, that of the responsibility of all men, be they great or be they small, to the same standards of social judgment, and to the same philosophical treatment, is illustrated in the very man to whose genius we owe the principle upon which my remarks are based--Charles Darwin; and it is singularly appropriate that we should also find the history of this very principle, that of variations with the correlative principle of natural selection, furnishing a capital illustration of our inferences.

Darwin was, with the single exception of Aristotle, possibly the man with the sanest judgment that the human mind has ever brought to the investigation of nature.


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