CHAPTER XXVI 



HIGHEK DEVELOPMENTS OF CEREBEAL FUNCTIONS 



It has often been assumed that the anatomist is incapable 

 of making any real contribution towards the knowledge 

 of the origin of Man, since he treats, and rather prides 

 himself on treating, his material as though, to use Huxley's 

 well-known expression, it were sent from some other 

 planet, preserved, it may be, in a cask of rum. He takes 

 cognizance only of muscles, bones, and other organs, 

 but, it is urged there is something far more subtle than 

 a mere assemblage of anatomical structures to be con- 

 sidered in the evolution of Man. D wight, as an anatomist, 

 has put forward this view with most cogency, but still, 

 even when conducted with his skilful handling, and 

 backed by his special knowledge, the argument cannot 

 be considered as a reasonable one. D wight has said that 

 to regard an animal merely as an anatomical entity to 

 which to assign a zoological position, '' is a very narrow- 

 minded and one-sided view to take of any organism, and, 

 above all, of so high an organism as Man, whose intel- 

 ligence (be its origin what you will) places him in an 

 order of his own. The problem is of a higher sphere 

 than that of morphology." 



That the problem of the evolution of intelligence is 

 beyond the reach of investigations undertaken in pure 

 morphology is a proposition very difficult to combat 

 when we are forced to take as objects for study " a bee 

 or an ant or a wasp," such as Dwight postulates. But 

 the difficulty is one imposed rather by the limitations 

 of knowledge in the particular field selected, than by any 



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