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severe struggle he has to carry on against nature and 

 his fellow-man. Yet the rudiments of all these powers 

 and feelings undoubtedly exist in him, since one or 

 other of them frequently manifest themselves in ex- 

 ceptional cases, or when some specia.1 circumstances 

 call them forth. Some tribes, such as the Santals, 

 are remarkable for as pure a love of truth as the most 

 moral among civilized men. The Hindoo and the 

 Polynesian have a high artistic feeling, the first traces 

 of which are clearly visible in the rude drawings of 

 the palaeolithic men who were the contemporaries in 

 France of the Reindeer and the Mammoth. Instances 

 of unselfish love, of true gratitude, and of deep reli- 

 gious feeling, sometimes occur among most savage 

 races. 



On the whole, then, we may conclude, that the general 

 moral and intellectual development of the savage, is 

 not less removed from that of civilized man than has 

 been shown to be the case in the one department 

 of mathematics ; and from the fact that all the moral 

 and intellectual faculties do occasionally manifest them- 

 selves, we may fairly conclude that they are always 

 latent, and that the large brain of the savage man is 

 much beyond his actual requirements in the savage 

 state. 



Intellect of Savages and of Animals compared. Let 

 us now compare the intellectual wants of the savage, 

 and the actual amount of intellect he exhibits, with 

 those of the higher animals. Such races as the 

 Andaman Islanders, the Australians, and the Tasma- 



