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they all have, furthermore, wonderful endowments
of genius in other directions. Look
at the little birds of which all species are so
nearly identical in their physique, and yet
what various forms of genius do they not display in
modelling their nests? This would be impossible
unless the ideas that are naturally predominant
in their minds were true. It would be too
contrary to analogy to suppose that
similar gifts were wanting to man.
Nor does the proof stop here. The history
of science, especially the early history
of modern science, on which I had
the honor of giving some lectures in
this hall some years ago, completes the