212 SECRETS OF ANIMAL LIFE 



the mark, and for lack of a little logic the creature 

 is often fatally nonplussed. But in the big-brained 

 type, with its rapid educability and capacity for 

 profiting by experience, there is likewise liability to 

 failure, and very notably in mankind, for lack of 

 more instinctive wisdom. On the whole, however, 

 intelligence is the more excellent way, especially 

 when external registration in a social heritage is 

 added thereto. 



