198 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



intelligible principle in the very idea of sacrifice, 

 namely, the principle of self-sacrifice. 



Here for the present I must leave the 

 subject. My chief object has been to show 

 how little really depends on some of the 

 arguments which have been put forth by 

 both sides in this controversy, and to indicate 

 what seems to me to be the true bearing of 

 the facts which as yet have been clearly 

 ascertained. I set little vaiue on the argu- 

 ment of Whately, that as regards the 

 mechanical arts Man can never have risen 

 "unaided." The aid which Man had from 

 his Creator may possibly have been nothing 

 more than the aid of a Body and of a Mind, 

 so marvellously endowed, that Thought was 

 an instinct, and Contrivance was at once a 



