8o The Destiny of Man. 



pretation upon events which antedated 

 morality as we understand it, we should 

 say it was their duty to fight ; and the rev- 

 erence accorded to the chieftain who mur- 

 dered most successfully in behalf of his 

 clansmen was well deserved. It is worthy 

 of note that, in isolated parts of the earth 

 where the natural supply of food is abun- 

 dant, as in sundry tropical islands of the 

 Pacific Ocean, men have ceased from war- 

 fare and become gentle and docile without 

 rising above the intellectual level of sav- 

 agery. Compared with other savages, they 

 are like the chimpanzee as contrasted with 

 the gorilla. Such exceptional instances 

 well illustrate the general truth that, so 

 long as the method of obtaining food was 

 the same as that employed by brute ani- 

 mals, men must continue to fight like dogs 

 over a bone. 



