50 MENTAL STATUS OF SAVAGE MAN. 



chimpanzees, parrots, or other animals and whole races of 

 savage man that ' noble savage ' who ran ' wild in woods,' 

 and of whom we hear so much from Exeter Hall ! If the 

 student will take the trouble of comparing, one by one, the 

 negative qualities intellectual and moral of savage man, 

 as hereinabove described, with the positive qualities of 

 certain other animals especially the well-bred dog the 

 conclusion arrived at will probably be what appears to me 

 the inevitable one that psychical superiority frequently per- 

 tains to the * lower ' animal and not to man 



