222 TUE GENESIS OF SPECIES. [Cuap. 



besides man, if that " survival " has alone and exclusively 

 produced it in him. 



Abundant examples may indeed be brought forward 

 of useful acts which simulate morality, such as parental 

 care of the young, &c. But did the most undeviating 

 habits jiuide all brutes in such matters, were even awd 

 ,and infirm members of a community of insects or birds 

 carefully tended by young which benefited by their expe- 

 rience, such acts would not indicate even the faintest 

 rudiment of real, i.e. formal, morality. " ISTatural Selection " 

 would, of course, often lead to the prevalence of acts bene- 

 ficial to a community, and to acts materially good ; but 

 unless they can be shown to be formally so, they are not 

 in the least to the point, tliey do not offer any explanation 

 of the origin of an altogether new and fundamentally 

 different motive and conception. 



It is interesting, on the otlier liand, to note jNlr. Darwin's 

 statement as to the existence of a distinct moral feelimr 

 even in perhaps the very lowest and most degraded of all 

 the human races known to us. Thus, in the same " Journal 

 of Eesearches " ^ before quoted, bearing witness to the exist- 

 .euce of moral reprobation on the part of tlie Fuegians, he 

 says : " The nearest approach to religious feeling wliicli I 

 heard of was shown bv York ]\linster (a Fuecrian so 

 named), who, wlicn Mr. Bynoe shot some very young 

 ducklings as specimens, declared in the most solemn 

 manner, ' Oh, ^Ir. Bynue, much rain, snow, blow much.' 

 Tliis was evidently a retributive punishment for wasting 

 human food." 



Mr. Wallace gives valuable testimony, in liis "Malay 

 Archipelago," to the existence of a very distinct, and even 



^ Vol. i. p. 2ir». 



