Note 91 — Chapter II
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
It is because there is a sort of capability for education in the animal, and indeed in the whole of his race, placed under certain circumstances; it is because, on the other hand, we refuse to certain human races the “initiative in progress,” (see Broca, Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, May 24 and June 21, 1860), that we cannot accept the “class man” of M. Chevreul, preceding the “class mammalia,” and having, as a characteristic, the capability of perfection in the individual, and in the association of individuals.—See Exposé d’un moyen de Définir et de Nommer les Couleurs, § 185. (Mémoires de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. xxxiii, 1861.)