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Europeans, but must also take into the account those 

 types of man which approach most nearly to the 

 animals and which have had no opportunity of rais- 

 ing themselves from the rude, primitive, natural state 

 to the grade of the civilized man. In such a study as 

 this, just as in the investigation of the animal mind, 

 we at once arrive at the knowledge of quite different 

 things from what the closet philosophers in their 

 pretentious but hollow wisdom have hitherto endeav- 

 ored to make us believe, and we ascertain immediate- 

 ly that the human being in his deepest degradation or 

 in his rudest primitive state approaches the animal 

 world so closely that we involuntarily ask ourselves 

 where the true boundary line is to be drawn. Who- 

 ever wishes to form a judgment as to the true nature 

 of man or his true position in Nature must not, 

 as our philosophers and soi disant 'great thinkers' 

 usually do, leave out of consideration the primeval 

 origin and developmental history of man, and look- 

 ing merely at his own little self in the delusive mirror 

 of self-esteem, abstract therefrom a pitiable portrait 

 of a man after the philosophical pattern. He must, 

 on the contrary, grasp at Nature itself with both 

 hands and draw his knowledge from the innumerable 



