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nesia, where it is selected for its flavour instead of 

 for its fleetness or intelligence, the dog is said to 

 be a very stupid animal. But in most cases of 

 domestication the changes wrought by selection 

 in the mental make-up of the race have been fully 

 as great as the changes in body, and in some 

 instances much greater. And the process by 

 which these great changes in psychology have 

 been effected is in principle identically the same 

 as that by which mental evolution in general is 

 assumed to have been brought about. 



6. The evolution of mind in the animal world 

 in general is suggested by the fact that mind in 

 man has evolved. The rich, luminous intellect 

 of civilised man, with its art, science, law, litera- 

 ture, government, and morality, has been evolved 

 from the rude, raw, demon-haunted mind of the 

 savage. Evidence of this evolution is furnished 

 by the recorded facts of human history, by the 

 antiquarian collections of our museums, and by 

 a study of existing savages. 



History everywhere has come out of the night, 

 out of the deep gloom of the unrecorded. But it 

 has not leaped forth like lightning out of the 

 darkness. It has dawned, night being succeeded 

 by the amorphous shadows of legend and tradition, 

 and these in turn by the attested events of true 

 history. Almost every civilised people can trace 

 back its genealogy to a time when it was repre- 

 sented on the earth by one or more tribes of 

 savage or half -savage ancestors. The Anglo- 

 Saxons go back to the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, 



