THE SEA DYAKS. 475 



no religion can give the Dyak aught that will benefit him, or in- 

 crease the balance of his happiness in the least. 



We have seen that there can be, and there is, morality of a high 

 order without any creed, religion, or education whatever. Is it 

 possible that man reaches his highest moral development in a state 

 of savagery ? Is it, then, really true that as we increase in civihzed 

 intelligence, refinement, and capacity for enjoyment, oui' capacities 

 and propensities for wickedness and harmful pleasures increase like- 

 wise? If this is the case now with mankind, ■will it alivays be so? 

 These are serious questions, and I leave them with the reader. 



