PRIMEVAL MAN. 



lowest degree, of barbarism in which they can 

 possibly subsist at all — never did and never 

 can, unaided, raise themselves into a higher 

 condition ; " that even when they are brought 

 into contact with superior races, it is ex- 

 •tremely difficult to teach them the simplest 

 arts ; that they " seem never to invent or 

 discover anything," because even "necessity 

 is not the mother of invention except to those 

 who have some degree of thoughtfulness and 

 intelligence;" that whatever the natural 

 powers of the human mind may be, they 

 require to have some instruction from with- 

 out wherewith to start. He holds it to 

 be " a complete moral certainty that men 

 left unassisted in what is called a state of 

 nature — that is, with the faculties Man is born 



