124: THE WHENCE AND THE WHITHER OP MAN 



are in the borderland or twiligiitland where it is much 

 safer to ask questions than to attempt to answer them. 

 How do you explain the " instinctive ' fear of man 

 on the part of wild and fierce animals ? They certain- 

 ly do not quail before his brute strength, for a blow at 

 such a time breaks the charm and insures an attack. 

 They quail before his eye and look. Is not this the 

 answering of a personality in the animal to the per- 

 sonality in man ; a recognition of something deeper 

 than bone and muscle ? And may not, as Mr. Dar- 

 win has urged, this fear in the presence of a higher 

 personality be the dim foreshadowing of an awe which 

 promises indefinitely better things ? Is, after all, the 

 attachment of a dog to his master something far 

 deeper than an appetite for bones or pats, or a fear of 

 kicks ? 



A host of other and similar questions throng upon 

 us here, to no one of which we can give a definite an- 

 swer. We need more investigation, more light. We 

 must not rest contented with old prejudices or accept 

 with too great certainty new explanations. The ques- 

 tions are worth} 7 of careful and patient investigation. 

 The study of comparative anatomy has thrown a flood 

 of light on the structure and working of the human 

 body in health and disease. We shall never fully 

 understand the mind of man until we know more of 

 the working of the mind of the animal. 



It would seem to be clear that there is a sequence 

 of dominance in the faculties of the intellect. First, 

 the only means of acquiring knowledge is through 

 sense-perception. But memory dawns far down in 

 the animal kingdom. And thus the animal begins to 

 associate past experience with present objects. The 



