130 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



Understanding ? And, thirdly, there is the 

 question, What was his condition in respect 

 to Knowledge, whether as the result of in- 

 tuition, or as the result of teaching ? It is a 

 fatal fault in the discussion of this subject, as 

 conducted both by Archbishop Whately and 

 by Sir J. Lubbock, that these distinctions are 

 either not seen or not distinctly kept in view. 

 Perhaps, indeed, it may be thought that the 

 Savage-theory is independent of such close 

 analysis. But this is by no means the case. 

 The distinction between the possession of 

 Faculties capable of acquiring knowledge, and 

 the possession of knowledge actually acquired, 

 is a fundamental distinction. Not less funda- 

 mental is the distinction between a creature 

 who is morally good but intellectually un- 



