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long holiday of the childhood of the world. It is to 

 behold one s natural face in a glass. 



Pass on through the other Cannibal Islands and, 

 apart from the improvement of weapons and the con 

 struction of a hut, throughout vast regions there is 

 still no sign of mental progress. But before one has 

 completed the circuit of the Pacific the change begins 

 to come. Gradually there appear the beginnings of 

 industry and even of art. In the Solomon Group and 

 in New Guinea, carving and painting may be seen in 

 an early infancy. The canoes are large and good, fish 

 hooks are manufactured and weaving of a rude kind 

 has been established. There can be no question at 

 this stage that the Mind of Man has begun its upward 

 path. And what now begins to impress one is not the 

 poverty of the early Mind, but the enormous poten 

 tialities that lie within it, and the exceeding swiftness 

 of its Ascent towards higher things. When the Sand 

 wich Islands are reached, the contrast appears in its 

 full significance. Here, a century ago, Captain Cook, 

 through whom the first knowledge of their existence 

 reached the outer world, was killed and eaten. To 

 day the children of his murderers have taken their 

 place among the civilized nations of the world, and 

 their Kings and Queens demand acknowledgment at 

 modern Courts. 



Books have been given to the world on the Mind of 

 animals. It is strange that so little should have been 

 written specifically on the Mind of the savage. But 

 though this living mine has not yet been drawn upon 

 for its last contribution to science, facts to suggest 

 and sustain a theory of mental evolution are every 

 where abundant. Waiving individual cases where 

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