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his game he employs a minuteness of observation, 

 and an accuracy of inductive and deductive reason- 

 ing which, applied to other matters, would assure 

 some reputation to a man of science, and I think 

 we need ask no further why he possesses such a 

 fair supply of brains. In complexity and difficulty, 

 I should say that the intellectual labour of a " good 

 hunter or warrior " considerably exceeds that of 

 an ordinary Englishman. The Civil Service Ex- 

 aminers are held in great terror by young English- 

 men ; but even their ferocity never tempted them 

 to require a candidate to possess such a knowledge 

 of a parish as Mr. Wallace justly points out 

 savages may possess of an area a hundred miles 

 or more in diameter. 



But suppose, for the sake of argument, that a 

 savage has more brains than seems proportioned 

 to his wants, all that can be said is that the objec- 

 tion to natural selection, if it be one, applies quite 

 as strongly to the lower animals. The brain of a 

 porpoise is quite wonderful for its mass, and for the 

 development of the cerebral convolutions. And 

 yet since we have ceased to credit the story of 

 Arion, it is hard to believe that porpoises are much 

 troubled with intellect : and still more difficult is 

 it to imagine that their big brains are only a pre- 

 paration for the advent of some accomplished 

 cetacean of the future. Surely, again, a wolf must 

 have too much brains, or else how is it that a dog 

 with only the same quantity and form of brain is 



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