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order to save the life of his keeper, or from that old 

 baboon, who descending from the mountains carried 

 away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd 

 of astonished dogs — as from a savage who delights 

 to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, 

 practises infanticide without remorse, treats his wives 

 like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by 

 the grossest superstitions." 



Mind, 



Some who admit development of physical forms 

 from lower orders still cling to the idea that the mind 

 of man is a special creation. But consideration of 

 nature's facts will show the gradual development of 

 mind, from the instinctive movements of animalcules 

 for the purpose of procuring food or propagating 

 their kind, until its upward course culminates in the 

 thoughts of a Newton and a Darwin. When the 

 coral polyp throws out its lasso to capture the pass- 

 ing food, when a dog answers the dinner-bell, or 

 when a man raises his umbrella to the rain, is not 

 each giving evidence of the existence of what we 

 call mind ? There is a progressive development of 

 the brain in the higher animals, and mental powers 

 correspond in force with this growth. 



Haeckel says : "The human mind is but a more 

 highly developed ape-mind," and Wallace declares 

 that there is less of a gap between the minds of a 

 dog and a Hottentot than between the minds of a 



