lemurides

Updated: May 5, 2025

Then their influence is subject to continual change, always corresponding to the existing state of human development. As these moral instincts have displaced the former instincts of the animal predecessors of man say, e.g., of sharks, of marsupialia, of lemurides so they must also expect it any time to be displaced in turn by new and still more useful instincts.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality