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the love rivalry of the lower animals. They fight as birds 

 and so many other animals do for the possession of the 

 female. 



19. The relation or proportion that mere instinct and 

 habit bear to reason; the predominance of instinct over 

 reason (Darwin). "What is called instinct in the savage is 

 frequently, however, really the result as in still lower 

 animals of habit and reason. 



20. The acuteness of the senses of smell, vision, touch, 

 and hearing, in certain cases; their obtuseness in others. 

 The Veddas, for example, are ' quite unable .... to dis- 

 criminate between colours' (Hartshorne). 



21. The peculiarities of their aesthetic taste for colour, 

 form, sound in comparison with that of cultivated man. 



22. Insensibility to kindness; absence of gratitude. 

 * The treachery of the negro is beyond belief,' says Baker. 



23. Combativeness and quarrelsomeness. Many of their 

 wars resemble those of ants in their ferocity, the causus belli 

 being perhaps, the possession of a woman as that of a 

 white elephant is, or may be, in Burmah (Houzeau). 



24. Want of the moral sentiments, and of religious 

 feeling or belief. 



25. Incapacity for education or instruction, for progress 

 or improvement ; including untamability. Hence their in- 

 capability for any work useful to themselves or to higher 

 races of mankind. The aborigines of Borneo in common 

 with the Australian blacks, ' on account of their unbounded 

 stupidity, cannot be used for slaves ; while of certain African 

 negroes in the American Slave States, a German traveller 

 writes, " they seem totally incapable of any higher culture " : 

 (Biichner). Arab sailors in Egypt are characterised by 

 possessing *no reasoning no waiting for results' (Eden). 

 The Andaman Islanders are untamable (Smith). 'The 

 faculty of memory ' among the Veddas ' is almost wholly 

 absent ; ' so that a typical married male ' could not even 

 recall the name of his own wife, until he caught sight of her 

 and pronounced it mechanically ' (Hartshorne). There is no 

 ' thought reaching beyond the narrowest circle of things 

 perceptible by the senses ' in the negro of East Africa. He 



