44 MENTAL STATUS 



has no sort of logic, and * can deduce nothing from what he 

 has observed' (Burton). 



26. Incapacity for generalisation. 



27. Want of originality, ingenuity, or inventiveness. 

 In the present Polynesians * there is no originality. Inven- 

 tion is unthought of,' says a correspondent of ' Nature.' A 

 want of mechanical ingenuity characterises the Australian 

 aborigines (Fox). 



28. Arithmetic is rudimentary where it can be said to 

 exist at all. The Apache Indians have no notion of their 

 own age, or of counting up years (Biichner). 



29. No idea of time. 



30. No systems of knowledge. 



31. No legislation-, no social or other laws e.g. among 

 the Dokos (Biichner). 



32. No territorial, tribal, or other property. Dogs, 

 wives, and children are possessed in common by the Aus- 

 tralian aborigines (Houzeau). 



33. No history ; sometimes scarcely any oral traditions. 



34. No policy, nor plans of action. 



35. No form of government, even by chiefs or leaders 

 e.g. among the Dokos (Biichner). 



36. No traffic nor commerce. 



37. Absence of agriculture, or any kind of tillage of the 

 soil ; sometimes even no hunting of wild animals for food. 



38. Want of industry of any kind; idleness and laziness. 

 ' There is no inclination to labour ' in the negroes of East 

 Africa (Biichner). 



39. Absence of money or coinage for instance, in 

 Central Africa, where barter is conducted by means of shells 

 or by payments in produce. 



40. Imitation enters largely into all their actions. 

 When Lallemant endeavoured to make a Brazilian Botokudo 

 understand anything "by signs, 'he imitated every action, 

 just as apes do' (Biichner). In this respect, as Pierquin 

 points out, the negro resembles the monkey, or vice versa. 



41. The absence of arts (Houzeau). 



42. Navigation by rafts, just as in the case of various 

 lower animals (Houzeau). 



