ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF EVOLUTION. 1^3 



The movements of the body and expressions of the countenance 

 answer to the temperament. More of grace and elegance in the 

 bearing marks the Greek, the Italian, and the Creole, than the 

 German, the Englishman, or the Green Mountain man. More of 

 vivacity and fire, for better or for worse, is displayed in the coun- 

 tenance. 



Perhaps the more northern type left all that behind in its 

 youth. The rugged, angular character which appreciates force 

 better than harmony, the strong intellect which delights in fore- 

 thought and calculation, the less impressibility, reaching stolidity 

 in the uneducated, are its well-known traits. If there be in such 

 a character less generosity and but little chivalry, there is persist- 

 ency and unwavering fidelity, not readily obscured by the light- 

 ning of passion or the surmises of an active imagination. 



All these peculiarities appear to result, first, from different de- 

 grees of quickness and depth in appreciating impressions from 

 without ; and, seco7id, from differing degrees of attention to the 

 intelligent judgment in consequent action. (I leave conscience 

 out, as not belonging to the category of inherited qualities.) 



The above observations have been confined to the Indo-Euro- 

 pean race. It may be objected to the theory that savagery means 

 immaturity in the senses above described, as dependent largely on 

 "impressibility," while savages in general display the least '* im- 

 pressibility," as that word is generally understood. This can not 

 be asserted of the Africans, who, so far as we know them, possess 

 this peculiarity in a high degree. Moreover, it must be remem- 

 bered that the state of indifference which precedes that of impress- 

 ibility in the individual may characterize many savages ; while 

 their varied peculiarities may be largely accounted for by recol- 

 lecting that many combinations of different species of emotion 

 and kinds of intelligence go to make up the complete result in 

 each case. 



(d) Conclusions. — Three types of religion may be selected 

 from the developmental conditions of man : first, an absence of 

 sensibility (early infancy) ; second, an emotional stage more pro- 

 ductive of faith than of works ; thirdly, an intellectual type, more 

 favorable to works than faith. Though in regard to responsibility 

 these states may be equal, there is absolutely no gain to laboring 

 humanity from the first type, and a serious loss in actual results 

 from the second, taken alone, as compared with the third. 



These, then, are the physical vehicles of religion— \i the phrase 



