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his game he employs a minuteness of observation, 
and an accuracy of inductive and deductive reason- 
ing which, applied to other matters, would assure 
some reputation to a man of science, and I think 
we need ask no further why he possesses such a 
fair supply of brains. In complexity and difficulty, 
I should say that the intellectual labour of a “ goe 
hunter or warrior” considerably exceeds that of 
an ordinary Englishman. The Civil Service Ex- 
aminers are held in great terror by young English= 
men ; but even their ferocity never tempted them 
to require a candidate to possess such a knowledge 
of a parish as Mr. Wallace justly points out 
savages may possess of an area a hundred miles 
or more in diameter. ; 
But suppose, for the sake of argument, that a 
savage has more brains than seems proportioned 
to his wants, all that can be said is that the objec- | 
tion to natural selection, if it be one, applies quite 
as strongly to the lower animals. The brain of a_ 
porpoise is quite wonderful for its mass, and for the 
development of the cerebral convolutions. And 
yet since we have ceased to credit the story of 
Arion, it is hard to believe that porpoises are much — 
troubled with intellect : and still more difficult is 
it to imagine that their big brains are only a pre- 
paration for the advent of some accomplished 
cetacean of the future. Surely, again, a wolf must 
have too much brains, or else how is it that a dog 
with only the same quantity and form of brain 
