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natural selection as an explanation of the moral 

 and intellectual nature of man. At first sight 

 one is rather startled by the fact that, in order 

 to prove that these are not derived from the 

 rudiments of them in the lower animals, Mr. 

 Wallace takes, not some characteristic that 

 seems to belong to all men and no animals a 

 characteristic such as Professor Max Miiller 

 considers lanoaia^e to be Mr. Wallace takes 

 the mathematical, musical and artistic faculties, 

 which, as he himself insists, are to be found only 

 in a very small number of human beings. Ac- 

 cording to the somewhat arbitrary statistics of 

 the schoolmasters consulted by Mr. Wallace, 

 only about 1 per cent, of the boys in an English 

 public school " have any special taste or capacity 

 for mathematical studies," and only about 1 per 

 cent., again, "have real or decided musical 

 talent." l The line of argument appears to be as 

 follows : ( 1 ) These faculties, not being useful to 

 man in the struggle for existence, could not 

 have been developed by natural selection. (2) 

 If they had been so developed, they would have 

 been present among human beings with some 

 approach to equality. 



1 Ibid. pp. 470, 471. 



