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able to develop such singular intelligence? The 
wolf stands to the dog in the same relation as the 
_ savage to the man; and, therefore, if Mr. Wallace’s 
- doctrine holds good,a higher power must have 
- superintended the breeding up of wolves from 
_ some inferior stock, in order to prepare them to 
- become dogs. 
__ Mr. Wallace further maintains that the origin 
of some of man’s mental faculties by the preserva- 
- tion of useful variations is not possible. Such, 
for example, are “the capacity to form ideal con- 
ceptions of space and time, of eternity and infin- 
ity; the capacity for intense artistic feelings of 
pleasure in form, colour, and composition ; and for 
_ those abstract notions of form and number which 
render geometry and arithmetic possible.” “ How,” 
he asks, “were all or any of these faculties first 
developed, when they could have been of no pos- 
sible use to man in his early stages of barbarism ?” 
Surely the answer is not far to seek. The 
lowest savages are as devoid of any such-concep- 
tions as the brutes themselves. What sort of 
conceptions of space and time, of form and num- 
_ ber, can be possessed by a savage who has not got 
80 far as to be able to count beyond five or six, who 
- does not know how to draw a triangle or a circle, 
and has not the remotest notion of separating the 
particular quality we call form, from the other 
_ qualities of bodies? None of these capacities are 
exhibited by men, unless they form part of a 
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