METHOD OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS. 2Q/ 



peared with a brain larger than had before existed. 

 Now, these primates were endowed physically with 

 almost no means of defence, but, at the same time, 

 they were obliged to contend with many powerful 

 enemies. To accomplish this, different courses 

 were taken. Some individuals escaped their ene- 

 mies by becoming arboreal, and gave rise to the 

 arboreal monkeys. But others began to depend 

 for their means of defence and subsistence upon 

 their superior cunning. Thus intelligence becomes 

 the most important feature in development. The 

 brain has already reached considerable size, but now 

 it rapidly increases. Intelligence comes in contact 

 with intelligence, and this is all that is needed to 

 cause rapid advance. The contests of these early 

 intellectual beings with each other is the means of 

 continued advance in intellect. 



When this intelligence has begun to contend with 

 intelligence it immediately becomes the only impor- 

 tant feature to develop. The development of the 

 body of this hypothetical creature is of little or no 

 importance. He needs no natural weapons, for he 

 manufactures artificial ones of more efficiency. His 

 body will therefore remain little changed except in 

 such particulars as relates to his advance in intelli- 

 gence. The continued use of the hand causes it to 

 become more delicate ; the growth of his brain 

 causes his skull to increase in size. But except in a 

 few such features his body remains much as it was. 

 While the body remains practically stationary, the 

 intelligence continues to advance, until, finally, the 

 race in question comes to differ from its early an- 



