150 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



needful is it to suppose that the few and 

 simple arts necessary for the sustenance of 

 his life were communicated to him in any- 

 other form than that of intuitive powers of 

 perception and discovery ? 



And here it is important to observe that 

 even if savage races be taken as the type 

 of man's Primeval Condition, the evidence 

 afforded by these races is all in favour of the 

 conclusion that as regards his characteristic 

 mental powers, Man has always been Man, 

 and nothing less. There is quite as much in- 

 genuity and skill in the manufacture of a 

 knife of flint, as in the manufacture of a 

 knife of iron. And the skill displayed by the 

 men who used stone implements is not con- 

 fined to that which is involved in the selection 



