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CHAPTER VI. 



MAN. 



&quot;The study of religious beliefs, of progress, or degradation, and of 

 the community of nature found in the most diverse races of men, show 

 (together with language and moral perception) that man differs funda 

 mentally from brutes, while the anatomical resemblances to animals 

 which his frame exhibits in no way invalidate the argument drawn 

 from the study of mind, that his origin (like his nature) is peculiar 

 and distinct.&quot; 



WE have seen, in the last two chapters, that rational Ian- 

 other human g ua S e and moral perception are universal characters 

 tKbT&quot; of man in hl s normal condition, i.e., when he is 

 sidesman-&quot; neither locally nor generally paralysed, nor insane. 

 Si pe?. But to learn fully the lesson which science has to 

 teach us with respect to his nature, we must con 

 sider certain other characteristics common to him, both as 

 presented to us in his simplest and most barbarous condition 

 as well as in his highest state of civilisation. Only by 

 so doing can we qualify ourselves to form any scientific 

 opinion as to the much-debated question of his origin. In 

 attaining this stage of our inquiry, we have reached that 

 which is proverbially the proper study of mankind. 



And, indeed, that the proper study of mankind is man 

 special can seems to be a proposition the truth of which is 



now for this . . 



study. being now forced upon us with peculiar intensity. 

 In spite of the expulsion of the &quot; microcosm&quot; by astronomy 

 from the centre of the material universe, he is at present 

 acquiring yet fresh claims to be considered the one key 

 whereby may be unlocked the mysteries of the &quot; macrocosm.&quot; 

 With the dispelling of that dream in which the little planet 



