94 HOMO V. DARWI17. 



According to facts observed and recorded by Mr. Darwin, 

 those faculties are possessed by savages who " rank among 

 the lowest barbarians," and who could therefore have had 

 no progenitors who exercised those faculties, or were 

 capable of transmitting them ! 



Homo. Thus, my Lord, as with the brain of savage man, 

 so also with his mental powers. Mr. Darwin is utterly 

 unable, on his hypothesis, to account for the savage pos- 

 sessing them. If we suppose, with Mr. Darwin, that the 

 Bavage is descended from savage progenitors, the fact of 

 his possessing a brain — and mental powers which he could 

 not possibly have inherited from those progenitors, seeing 

 they never possessed them — this fact would show that the 

 savage was made for a far higher condition of life than 

 that which he occupies. Though he himself is not aware 

 of it, and though his progenitors could not possibly have 

 imagined such a thing, the savage possesses an intellect 

 capable of ranging through the universe, and penetrating 

 into the deepest secrets of nature. Now, Divine purpose 

 could have given him such an intellect, but, certainly. 

 Natural Selection could not. 



Lord C. From which, I suppose, you would infer, either 

 that the savage is descended from an ancestry superior to 

 himself, and has sunk from a higher position into a lower 

 one ; or that he was created that he might occupy a far 

 higher level of life than that on which we find him. 



Homo. Precisely so, my Lord, but either supposition is 

 opposed to Mr. Darwin's hypothesis. 



Lord C. What is the next point ? 



Darwin. " If no organic being, excepting man," my Lord, 

 " had possessed any mental power, or if his powers had been 

 of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals, 

 then we should never have been able to convince ourselves 



