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and beautiful, which are so largely developed in civilised 
man. Any considerable development of these would, in fact, 
be useless or even hurtful to him, since they would to some 
extent interfere with the supremacy of those perceptive and 
animal faculties on which his very existence often depends, in 
the severe struggle he has to carry on against nature and his 
fellow-man. Yet the rudiments of all these powers and feel- 
ings undoubtedly exist in him, since one or other of them 
frequently manifest themselves in exceptional cases, or when 
some special circumstances call them forth. Some tribes, 
such as the Santals, are remarkable for as pure a love of 
truth as the most moral among civilised men. The Hindoo 
and the Polynesian have a high artistic feeling, the first traces 
of which are clearly visible in the rude drawings of the 
palaeolithic men who were the contemporaries in France of 
the reindeer and the mammoth. Instances of unselfish love, 
of true gratitude, and of deep religious feeling, sometimes 
occur among most savage races. 
On the whole, then, we may conclude that the general, 
moral, and intellectual development of the savage is not less 
removed from that of civilised man than has been shown to 
be the case in the one department of mathematics * and from 
the fact that all the moral and intellectual faculties do occa- 
sionally manifest themselves, we may fairly conclude that they 
are always latent, and that the large brain of the savage man 
is much beyond his actual requirements in the savage state. 
Intellect of Savages and of Animals compared . — Let us 
now compare the intellectual wants of the savage, and the 
actual amount of intellect he exhibits, with those of the 
higher animals. Such races as the Andaman Islanders, 
the Australians, and the Tasmanians, the Digger Indians of 
North America, or the natives of Fuegia, pass their lives so 
as to require the exercise of few faculties not possessed in an 
equal degree by many animals. In the mode of capture of 
game or fish they by no means surpass the ingenuity or fore- 
thought of the jaguar, who drops saliva into the water, and 
seizes the fish as they come to eat it; or of wolves and 
jackals, who hunt in packs; or of the fox, who buries his 
surplus food till he requires it. The sentinels placed by 
antelopes and by monkeys, and the various modes of building 
