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was a dead partridge. The reason is obvious, 

 because no one would breed from a retriever 

 which worried or from a terrier which treated 

 its natural prey as if it were a stick. Thus 

 the brain of each kind is hereditarily supplied 

 with certain nervous connections wanting in 

 the brain of other kinds. We need no more 

 doubt the reality of the material distinction in 

 the brain than we need doubt it in the limbs 

 and jaws of the greyhound and the bull-dog. 

 Those who have watched closely the different 

 races of men can hardly hesitate to believe 

 that something analogous exists in our own 

 case. While the highest types are, as Mr. 

 Herbert Spencer well puts it, to some extent 

 ' organically moral ' and structurally intelligent, 

 the lowest types are congenitally deficient. 

 A European child learns to read almost by 

 nature (for Dogberry was essentially right 

 after all), while a Negro child learns to read 

 by painful personal experience. And savages 

 brought to Europe and 'civilised' for years 

 often return at last with joy to their native 



