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6. Filthiness in their personal habits, excluding those 

 connected with food-eating. Thus the Yeddas of Ceylon 

 show a t habitual disregard of any sort of ablution ' (Harts- 

 home). The Bushmen of South Africa ' never wash' 

 (Richerer). 



7. No sense of decency, modesty, chastity, or shame. 



8. Their main object in life is the gratification of their 

 physical ivants. The only care of the Andaman Islanders, 

 for example, is food supply (Owen). When the Bushmen of 

 South Africa ' have enough food, they gorge and sleep.' 

 (Richerer). Most savages are stimulated to a search for 

 food only by hunger. The Australian ' knows almost no 

 other sensation than that of the need of food, which he .... 

 makes known to the traveller by grimaces' (Biichner). 



9. Absence of ordinary foresight as to physical wants. 



10. Handlessness, or awkwardness in the use of their 

 hands (Houzeau) ; a disability common enough in civilised 

 man for instance, among many of our own peasantry. 



11. Absence of fools, implements, and weapons- -for 

 instance, for fishing among the ancient Caribs (Houzeau). 

 There are either no tools, or scarcely any idea of using them, 

 among the Mincopies, while the Dokos have no weapons 

 (Biichner). The first musical instrument alike of the savage 

 and of the anthropoid ape is a rudely-formed drum (Houzeau). 

 Teeth, hands, and feet, however, are used as natural tools and 

 weapons, just as they are by other animals. Thus Thine 

 mentions a Kanake of Honolulu, in the Sandwich Islands, 

 who, climbing a cocoa-nut tree and bringing down some of 

 the green fruit, ' tore the outer husk off with his teeth, 

 getting purchase on the nut with his feet and hands, like a 

 monkey.' 



12. Want of natural affection. 'Mothers suckle their 

 children only a short time, and then abandon them,' among 

 the Dokos. Man and woman live isolated in certain hill 

 tribes of India the so-called 'ape men.' There is 'no 

 domestic life .... no attachment to kindred' (Biichner). In 

 East African negroes there is 'no attachment between father 

 and child ; but, on the contrary, there prevails, after the 

 time of childhood, a natural enmity between father and son. 

 . . . The children are sold ; the wife is driven out of doors 



