44 The Higher Usefulness of Science 



to the affection of friend for friend? Which cares 

 more genuinely for nature people, the missionary who 

 lives among them to save them for a future world, or 

 the scientist who lives with them in order that he may 

 know them? Is the missionary ever really successful 

 in his mission of soul-saving until he comes to have a 

 genuine interest in his people as physical beings a 

 genuine solicitude for their physical as well as for 

 their spiritual welfare? 



I suspect that some of the strongest practical evi- 

 dence in favor of the doctrine of the brotherhood of man 

 may be found in the intelligent affection which grows 

 up between highly cultured Caucasians who live long 

 and intimately among primitive peoples for the pur- 

 pose of knowing them and helping them. 



One of the most significant things about the human- 

 ness of nature peoples is the seeming coincidence of the 

 main categories of human faculty. There appears to 

 be no observational evidence that some one or a few 

 of these attributes are more primitive than all the 

 others and gave birth to the others. There is, for 

 example, no proof that rationality preceded and pro- 

 duced the esthetic, the social and the religious instincts ; 

 or per contra. It seems as though all these must have 

 emerged together or nearly so, and that they must 

 have always been closely interlocked and interde- 

 pendent. 



The evidence as to the exact manner of man's origin 

 contains much that is conflicting and exceedingly puz- 



