148 UNIVERSAL EVOLUTION 



Fitz-Roy's noble hope may be fulfilled, of being 

 rewarded for the many generous sacrifices which he 

 made for these Fnegians, by some shipwrecked sailor 

 being protected by the descendants of Jemmy Button 

 and his tribe." 



The chief of the tribe, and its customs, in thus com- 

 pelling "Jemmy" to revert to the habits of barbarism, 

 seem cruel to the civilized man only. But not to 

 "Jemmy," who had experienced both. The "reason- 

 ing" of the tribe necessarily took that line, and form, 

 which meant the preservation of the tribe's necessary 

 correspondence with its wild and savage environment, 

 commensurate with the limited intelligence of the indi- 

 viduals; while the sympathy of the civilians on board 

 the "Beagle" took also, that line and form, which 

 would preserve the correspondence of "Jemmy" with 

 English civilization, or environment, and therefore was 

 unfit in the environment upon which "Jemmy" was 

 then entering. It is evident that "Jemmy" was wise 

 in remaining with his race. His reasoning, in the mat- 

 ter, was wholly determined by his environment, acting 

 upon what brain he had. It is the same with the 

 American Indian. When one is taken away from his 

 tribe, and educated in a civilized school, then returned, 

 he doffs the civilian's clothes, and dons the blanket. 

 The perfect equality of the individuals, making up the 

 communities in savagery, or barbarism, makes the pos- 

 session of clothes, or anything else, by one individual, 

 not common to the tribe, an impossibility. This law 

 keeps the peace, subdues passions, hatreds, mean am- 

 bitions, and prevents strife and war. It is these facts, 

 that compel the reason of the returned Indian to again 

 conform to the customs of his tribe, which he had dis- 

 carded while in the white man's college, or country, 



