218 UTILITARIAN ZOOLOGY 
One Insect, too, the Honey-Bee (4gzs melhfica), has played no 
mean part in the drama of human civilization, and to this may 
be added the Silk-Worm (Bombyx mori) and the Cochineal 
Insect (Coccus cactz). 
The following remarks on the origin of Domestication and 
some of its results are quoted from Jenks (4 History of Polatics) :— 
“ The art of taming wild animals and making them serve the pur- 
poses of man, is one of the great discoveries of the world... . But 
as to the man or men who introduced it we have no knowledge, 
except through vague and obviously untrustworthy tradition. . . . 
In all probability the discovery was made independently by many 
different races, under combinations of favourable circumstances. 
But if we cannot speak with confidence of names and dates in 
the matter, we can make certain tolerably shrewd guesses as 
to the way in which domestication of animals came about. We 
start with the fact that the most valuable of the world’s domestic 
animals—the sheep, horse, ox, goat, &c.—are known to exist, 
or to have existed, in a wild state. It is practically impossible 
to suppose that these wild animals are (except in rare cases) 
the result of the escape from captivity of tame animals. It 
follows, therefore, that the start which a pack of savages could 
obtain in the matter of domestication would depend upon the 
character of the wild animals in the neighbourhood. For it is 
fairly obvious by this time that many wild animals are not suit- 
able for taming. Thus, it is hardly possible that the lion, tiger, 
or bear will ever really become domestic animals, in spite of 
the fact that their strength and endurance would prove valuable 
qualities if they could be used. And so some peoples may have 
remained utterly savage because of the fact that their country 
does not produce animals capable of domestication. Again, some 
races, like the Eskimos, appear to have had only the wild an- 
cestors of the dog and the reindeer (fig. 1156), and thus to have 
been very limited in their opportunities. Other races have been 
able to tame the sheep, one of the most valuable aids to civiliza- 
tion; others, again, have had the still more valuable ox. But 
still the question remains—how was the process of domestication 
discovered? Here, again, we can only proceed by speculation; 
but a most valuable account of his experiences in Southern 
Africa (Damara Land), published by the late Sir Francis Galton 
in the middle of last century, affords us some suggestive hints 
