THE DA WN OF MIND 185 



existence reached the outer world, was killed and 

 eaten. To-day the children of his murderers have 

 taken their place among the civilized nations of the 

 world, and their Kings and Queens demand acknow- 

 ledgment at modern Courts. 



Books have been given to the world on the 

 Mind of animals. It is strange that so little should 

 have been written specifically on the Mind of the 

 savage. But though this living mine has not yet 

 been drawn upon for its last contribution to science, 

 facts to suggest and sustain a theory of mental 

 evolution are everywhere abundant. Waiving in- 

 dividual cases where nations have fallen from a 

 higher intellectual level the proof indicates a rising 

 potentiality and widening of range as we pass from 

 primitive to civilized states. It is open to debate 

 whether during the historic period mere intellectual 

 advance has been considerable, whether more 

 penetrating or commanding intellects have ever 

 appeared than those of Job, Isaiah, Plato, Shak- 

 speare. But that is matter of yesterday. What 

 concerns us now to note is that the Mind of Man 

 as a whole has had a slow and gradual dawn : 

 that it has existed, and exists to-day, among cer- 

 tain tribes at almost the lowest point of develop- 

 ment with which the word human can be asso- 

 ciated ; and that from that point an Ascent of 



