T44 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



indisputable fact, that Man has no instincts 

 such as enable the lower animals to construct 

 nests, and cells, and lairs. My own belief 

 is, that tliis is an assumption which is not 

 only unproved, but one which in all pro- 

 bability is false. As Whately himself admits, 

 " Man is an animal " as well as the creatures 

 that are below him. It is true that he has 

 not instincts of the same kind as they have. 

 But this .is no proof whatever that he has 

 not, and had not originally, instincts which 

 stand in strict correlation with the peculiarities 

 of his higher physical organization. This is 

 a department of inquiry which has been far 

 too much neglected both by physiologists and 

 by metaphysicians. There are many facts 

 which go far to prove that Man has, and 



