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marked intellectual inferiority on the part of the 

 less developed races. In some of Galton's published 

 researches, as, for instance, those concerning the 

 mental faculties of uncivilized races in South Africa, 1 

 he went so far as to compare disparagingly the 

 mental faculties of a highly intelligent race like the 

 Demaras with those of the dog. In these researches 

 and subsequent writings Galton seemed to be quite 

 unconscious of the fact that this assumed great 

 intellectual superiority of civilized man over the 

 less developed races had no existence. Like 

 Darwin, Galton had no clear comprehension as to 

 what efficiency in civilization really consists in. 

 He did not see that the superior efficiency of the 

 man of the advanced races was superior social 

 efficiency, and that this came to him almost ex- 

 clusively through the social inheritance, a complex 

 material and psychic inheritance which did not 

 necessitate or indicate anything whatever of the 

 great intellectual superiority which Galton supposed 

 to be inborn in the advanced races. 2 



1 Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa. 



3 I have dealt with this matter at length in Social Evolution. 

 Galton subsequently perceived his original belief, as to the 

 interval between the man of advanced civilization and the 

 savage being mainly one of inborn mental or intellectual differ- 

 ence, to be untenable, but in correspondence, and in conversa- 

 tions I afterwards had with him, I recognized how strongly 

 he remained to the end of his life under the influence of ideas 

 associated with his first conception. 



