jT2 The Destiny of Man. 



All birds and mammals which take care of 

 their young are teachable, though in very 

 various degrees, and all in like manner 

 show individual peculiarities of disposition, 

 though in most cases these are slight and 

 inconspicuous. In dogs, horses, and apes 

 there is marked teachableness, and there 

 are also marked differences in individual 

 character. 



But in the non-human animal world all 

 these phenomena are but slightly devel- 

 oped. They are but the dim adumbrations 

 of what was by and by to bloom forth in 

 the human race. They can scarcely be 

 said to have served as a prophecy of the 

 revolution that was to come. One genera- 

 tion of dumb beasts is after all very like 

 another, and from studying the careers of 

 the mastodon, the hipparion, the sabre- 

 toothed lion, or even the dryopithecus, an 

 observer in the Miocene age could never 

 have foreseen the possibility of a creature 

 endowed with such a boundless capacity 

 of progress as the modern Man. Never 



