128 SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



iiig just what was to go into our natures. These 

 instincts and ways of acting are vestigial. They 

 were useful to our ancestors, but owing to changes 

 in surroundings they are not useful to us. 



Savage peoples live in a different world from 

 the world that higher peoples live in, and they do 

 very different things from what higher peoples 

 do. The savage is a child of nature. He lives 

 much as other wild animals live. He has no do- 

 mesticated plants nor animals. He subsists on the 

 wild world. He hunts and fishes and fights for a 

 living. He wanders about in small bands or tribes, 

 maintaining himself by almost constant war with 

 other tribes. He is ignorant, superstitious, and 

 poor. He leads a hand-to-mouth existence. Life 

 is filled with dangers, fears, and adventures. The 

 moral law of the savage is the law that might 

 7nakes right — the law that prevails among the 

 fiercer orders of animal life everywhere. 



The savage is adapted to the world in which he 

 lives. He has the kind of body that he ne^jds, and 

 he has the instincts driving him to do the things 

 he needs to do in order to maintain himself in the 

 world. 



The higher races of men have left the wild 

 world of their ancestors. They live for the most 

 part in an artificial, man-made world. Their oc- 

 cupations are peaceful. They are grouped into 

 great cities and states, and maintain vast indus- 

 tries of agriculture, grazing, manufacturing, min- 

 ing, and commerce. Life is co-operative. Knowl- 



