VIEWS ON THE EVOLUTION OF MAN 369 



to that of the mammals, if his organization alone 

 should be taken into consideration. 



" Now in order to follow, in all its particulars, the 

 hypothesis presented in the beginning of these ob- 

 servations, it is fitting to add the following consid- 

 erations: 



" The individuals of the dominant race previously 

 mentioned, having taken possession of all the in- 

 habitable places which were suitable for them, and 

 having to a very considerable extent multiplied their 

 necessities in proportion as the societies which they 

 formed became more numerous, were able equally 

 to increase their ideas, and consequently to feel the 

 need of communicating them to their fellows. We 

 conceive that there would arise the necessity of in- 

 creasing and of varying in the same proportion the 

 signs adopted for the communication of these ideas. 

 It is then evident that the members of this race 

 would have to make continual efforts, and to em- 

 ploy every possible means in these efforts, to create, 

 multiply, and render sufficiently varied the signs 

 which their ideas and their numerous wants would 

 render necessary. 



" It is not so with any other animals; because, 

 although the most perfect among them, such as the 

 Quadrumana, live mostly in troops, since the emi- 

 nent supremacy of the race mentioned they have 

 remained stationary as regards the improvement of 

 their faculties, having been driven out from every- 

 where and banished to wild, desert, usually restricted 

 regions, whither, miserable and restless, they are 

 incessantly constrained to fly and hide themselves. 

 In this situation these animals no longer contract 

 new needs, they acquire no new ideas; they have 

 but a small number of them, and it is always the 

 same ones which occupy their attention, and among 

 these ideas there are very few which they have need 

 of communicating to the other individuals of their 



24 



