1 80 Human and Brute Mind Different. 



vanced spirits ; the other is not. This capacity 

 for development should count for something in 

 framing a genealogical table. And that I have 

 not overestimated it is evidenced by the uncon 

 scious testimony of Darwin, who, speaking of the 

 Fuegians as the &quot; lowest barbarians,&quot; yet adds : 

 &quot; I was continually struck with surprise how 

 closely the three natives on board JET. M. S. 

 Beagle, who had lived some years in England 

 and could talk a little English, resembled us in 

 disposition and in most of our mental faculties.&quot; 

 As he is, the native Fuegian may not be much 

 more intelligent than an elephant ; but then, he 

 is capable of becoming so much more ! j, 



Still, whether Darwin is right or wrong in this 

 matter does not now concern us. My present 

 point is, that in his mental philosophy he makes 

 no attempt to derive any of the mental powers. 

 He takes them as he finds them, and studies their 

 different manifestations and gradations. Man has 

 more reason than the monkey : Darwin notes the 

 fact without pretending to explain whence that 

 reason came or what the essence of reason is. 

 The lancelet has no imagination ; the dog has : 

 Darwin recognizes the appearance of a new power 

 in the more developed animal without professing 

 to account for its entrance upon the field. Had 



