6o PRIMEVAL MAN. 



related with their low intelligence. We may 

 not — and we do not — understand how these 

 phenomena of Matter and of Mind are thus 

 dependent on each other; but as a fact we 

 see that this dependence is universal, and the 

 distinctions which we found on anatomical 

 structure have their value corroborated and 

 confirmed by close and inseparable corre- 

 spondences of instinct and intelligence. Man 

 is no exception whatever to this universal 

 law; and any system of classification which 

 places a value on his anatomical peculiarities, 

 separating by an impassable gulf between his 

 Body and his Mind, is a system altogether 

 inconsistent with philosophy. The value set 

 upon any given anatomical peculiarity, or 

 group of peculiarities, in a sound system of 



