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vived and prospered that have saved their young. 

 And so, in many animals, generally in the mother, 

 there has been implanted the instinct to love and 

 protect the young of the species. 



All domesticated animals have come from wild 

 animals. Their surroundings have been much 

 changed by domestication. They do not need to 

 do the same things in human fields and pastures 

 and barns and homes that they used to do in the 

 wild life among the hills, forests, and prairies. 

 Hence they have many instincts that are no longer 

 useful to them but which survive, like the ear mus- 

 cles and vermiform appendix in man, and like 

 horns in domesticated cattle. They are vestigial 

 instincts — instincts which were once useful but 

 which, owing to changes in surroundings, are no 

 longer useful and are now in the act of slowly 

 passing away. 



5. Vestigial Instincts in Man. 



Man also was once a wild animal. We are do- 

 mesticated animals, we higher peoples of the 

 earth, or partially domesticated at any rate. All 

 higher peoples have come from savage peoples. 

 And if you trace savages back, you will find that 

 they have come from still more savage and animal- 

 like ancestors. The savage is the common ances- 

 tor of all higher men. And it is not possible to 

 understand the things higher men do nor to ac- 

 count for the things that you find in their natures, 

 unless you recognize the fact that higher men are 



