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Ch. XXXIV.] 



IX TO THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



259 



cate the natural tendency in man to resume tlie quadrupedal 

 state.'^ 



Now, wlien so mucli pro^^ress 



had been made 



the 



quadrumanous animals before mentioned, that thej could 

 hold themselves habitually in an erect attitude, and were 

 accustomed to a wide range of vision, and ceased to use 

 their jaws for fig-hting and tearing, or for clipping herbs for 

 food, their snout became gradually shorter, their incisor 

 teeth became vertical, and the facial angle grew more open. 



Among other ideas which the natural tendency to perfection 

 engendered, the desire of ruling suggested itself, and this 

 race succeeded at length in getting the better of the other 



made themselves 



them. 

 ; them 



They drove 



tion and intelligence, and which were in a condition to dis- 

 pute with them the good things of this world, forcing them 

 to take refuge in deserts, woods, and wildernesses^where 



de- 



velopment of their faculties retarded ; while, in the mean- 

 time, the dominant race spread itself in every direction, and 

 lived in large companies, where new wants were successively 

 created, exciting them to industry, and gradually perfectino- 

 their means and faculties. ^ 



In the supremacy and increased intelligence acquired by 

 the^ruling race, we see an illustration of the natural tendency 



? '' ' ^ perfect j and, in their 



mliuence m repressing the advance of others, an example of 



more 



5/ 



/ 



animated 



When tlie individuals of the dominant 



number 



felt the necessity of communicating them to each other, and 

 ot augmenting and varying the signs proper for the com- 

 munication of Ideas. Meanwhile the infprin. nV.n- 



them 



rumanons 



^r.^r. -^ 1 . - ^^^^ gregarious, acquired 



no new ideas, bemg persecuted and restless in the deserts, 



"^ Phil. Zool. p. 354. 



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