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and inferior at the time, those qualities of brain 

 which were to become the dominant factor in the 

 struggle of types, and which were destined to carry 

 life into new horizons. 



So again in the era which dawned in life when 

 the transmission of the accumulated results of 

 past training in the individual became possible 

 through language in the primates, no limited 

 intelligence could have foreseen the nature of the 

 new horizon into which life was to be carried through 

 such qualities developed in conditions of apparent 

 inferiority. For the primates would have appeared 

 to have had stamped upon them all the marks of 

 inferiority and even defeat in the struggle for 

 existence in their adaptation to an arboreal life as 

 a retreat from the forceful ascendant forms which 

 then crowded the plains and valleys of the world. 

 Every comparative student of form and function 

 in the development of life down to the later phases 

 represented in the struggle between races and 

 civilizations, and even in the conflict between 

 human institutions, will be able to multiply these 

 examples indefinitely. 



It may be laid down that all the eras of progress 

 in which life has been carried to new horizons have 

 had their origin in qualities developed thus in special 

 conditions, qualities which would have been judged 



