174 MR. DARWIN’S CRITICS 
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to mean that, just as the rock-pigeon has been’ 
produced by natural causes, while the evolution of 
the tumbler from the blue rock has required the 
special intervention of the intelligence of man, so — 
some anthropoid form may have been evolved by 
variation and natural selection ; but it could never 
have given rise to man, unless some superior intel-~ 
ligence had played the part of the pigeon-fancier, 
According to Mr. Wallace, “ whether we com-_ 
pare the savage with the higher developments of 
man, or with the brutes around him, we are alike 
driven to the conclusion, that, in his large and 
well-developed brain, he possesses an organ quite 
disproportioned to his requirements” (p. 343); 
and he asks, “What is there in the life of the 
savage but the satisfying of the cravings of ap: 
petite in the simplest and easiest way? Wha’ 
thoughts, idea, or actions are there that raise him 
many grades above the elephant or the ape?” 
(p. 342.) I answer Mr. Wallace by citing a re-_ 
markable passage which occurs in his instructive 
paper on “ Instinct in Man and Animals,” 
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‘‘Savages make long journeys in many directions, and, their — 
whole faculties being directed to the subject, they gain a wide — 
and accurate knowledge of the topography, not only of their 
own district, but of all the regions round about. Every one 
who has travelled in a new direction communicates his know- 
ledge to those who have travelled less, and descriptions of routes” 
and localities, and minute incidents of travel, form one of the — 
main staples of conversation around the evening fire. Every — 
wanderer or captive from another tribe adds to the store of 
