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lower type than our own, or that the men and women 

 of whom they are the remains would not, were they 

 possessed of our advantages of education, etc., take 

 an equal status in society with us. Some of them, 

 especially those removed from the Vikings' graves, 

 must have belonged to magnificent specimens of 

 humanity. 



Abeyance of Brain Development since Neolithic Times. 



The evidence, and it is of a most substantial kind, 

 would seem to point strongly to the practical abey- 

 ance of organic intellectual development from the 

 time mankind first formed simple communities for 

 purposes of self-defence and mutual aid up to the 

 present time. It would follow, therefore, that although 

 we have been accumulating intellectual property, we 

 have not necessarily become more intellectually 

 active. 



Social Communities do not permit of the Destruction of 

 the Less Intellectually Capable. 



But it may not unnaturally be asked, How is this 

 state of things compatible with our views regarding 

 selection? for we have seen that struggle and com- 

 petition between brain and brain has incessantly been 

 going on, and it seems to be a natural sequence that 



