Note 176 — Chapter V

[It is, indeed, worthy of a place in science, though not apparently in the sense which is meant by our author. C. Carter Blake says, and says truly, “In zoology, as in all other methods of human thought, the sincere searcher after truth will reap some solid benefit for his labours if carried on in a fair and honest spirit. What science reveals to us,—and we know of no source of knowledge whence the revelation of the truth, as it is manifested in living nature, can be impugned,—what science teaches us, a simple-minded student will accept, that which the unbiassed evidences of his senses and the manifestations of his own consciousness tell him to be true.” (C. Carter Blake, On the Doctrine of Final Causes, as illustrated by Zoology, Hastings Philosophical Society, meeting of January 13, 1864.)—Editor.]