title: Created from Animals: The Moral Implications of Darwinism
author:  James Rachels 
description: <br><em>About the Author:</em><br> <strong>James Rachels</strong> is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of <em>The End of Life</em> and <em>The Elements of Moral Philosophy</em>.<br>
zlib_text: **The Birth Of Reason**
  
  Second edition
  
  RJ Robinson
  
    
    
  
  > > But this is only the beginning of Mr. Darwin's work, since he goes on to
  > discuss the moral nature and mental faculties of man, and derives these too
  > by gradual modification and development from the lower animals. Although,
  > perhaps, nowhere distinctly formulated, his whole argument tends to the
  > conclusion that man's entire nature and all his faculties, whether moral,
  > intellectual, or spiritual, have been derived from their rudiments in the
  > lower animals, in the same manner and by the action of the same general laws
  > as his physical structure has been derived. As this conclusion appears to me
  > not to be supported by adequate evidence, and to be directly opposed to many
  > well-ascertained facts, I propose to devote a brief space to its discussion…
  
  > > Alfred Russel Wallace, _Darwinism_ (1889)
  
    
  
  > > In our study of Anatomy there is a mass of mysterious Philosophy, and such
  > as reduced the very Heathens to D