72 The Destiny of Man. 



greater than the difference between the 

 Australian's brain and that of an orang- 

 outang. In mathematical capacity the 

 Australian, who cannot tell the number of 

 fingers on his two hands, is much nearer 

 to a lion or wolf than to Sir Rowan Ham- 

 ilton, who invented the method of quater- 

 nions. In moral development this same 

 Australian, whose language contains no 

 words for justice and benevolence, is less 

 remote from dogs and baboons than from 

 a Howard or a Garrison. In progressive- 

 ness, too, the difference between the low- 

 est and the highest races of men is no less 

 conspicuous. The Australian is more 

 teachable than the ape, but his limit is 

 nevertheless very quickly reached. All the 

 distinctive attributes of Man, in short, 

 have been developed to an enormous ex- 

 tent through long ages of social evolution. 

 This psychical development of Man is 

 destined to go on in the future as it has 

 gone on in the past. The creative energy 

 which has been at work through the bygone 



