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sufficient leisure and civilisation to save this 

 comparatively rare " variation " from being 

 speedily extinguished ; and he must appear 

 among a people who inherit socially a suffi- 

 cient musical notation and sufficiently complex 

 musical instruments. Mr. Wallace's objections 

 seem plausible in great measure because he 

 isolates the different forms of intellectual and 

 aesthetic capacity, as if these could exist sepa- 

 rately. The music of savages is the germ of 

 the music of Beethoven ; but the gap between 

 them is filled by advance, not in music only, 

 but in a vast number of other thines. 



As to what is quaintly called " the meta- 

 physical faculty," it will be generally agreed 

 that if a man in the Stone Age, instead of 

 sending his flint arrows at something he could 

 eat, had sat down to think how motion was 

 possible, or how contradictory movements were 

 united in his handling of the bow, he would, 

 like his mathematical brother, have supplied 

 the cave-bear with a dinner, and not vice versa. 

 But what appears as metaphysics among races 

 who have won leisure to reflect, and have 

 developed a complex language capable of ex- 

 pressing abstract ideas, had appeared long 



