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typical differences between savages and brutes.” But 
" °t °nly can we perceive how it is that man is capri- 
<:i0Us j but the lower animals are, as we shall hereafter 
S ® e ’ capricious in their affections, aversions, and sense 
beauty. There is also good reason to suspect that 
10 y love novelty, for its own sake. 
Relief in God — Religion . — There is no evidence that 
jUan was aboriginally endowed with the ennobling 
e b’ef i n the existence of an Omnipotent God. On the 
contrary there is ample evidence, derived not from hasty 
"travellers, but from men who have long resided with 
s ayages, that numerous races have existed and still 
| X| st, who have no idea of one or more gods, and who 
. ave uo words in their languages to express such an 
. The question is of course ivholly distinct from 
uut higher one, whether there exists a Creator and 
a er of the universe; and this has been answered in 
j. e affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever 
If, however, we include under the term “ religion ” the 
, e * e f in unseen or spiritual agencies, the case is wholly 
ei 'ent; for this belief seems to be almost universal 
"'ib the less civilised races. Nor is it difficult to 
jomprehend how it arose. As soon as the important 
| a culties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, 
°{?ether with some power of reasoning, had become 
to 
P ar tially developed, man would naturally have craved 
id 
' e vaguely speculated on his own existence. As 
understand what was passing around him, and 
; n ^ an excellent article on tin's subject by the Rev. F W. Farrar, 
facts 16 "Anthropological Review,’ Ang. 1864, p. ccxvii. For further 
ari( j see .Si* J. Lubbock, ‘ Prehistoric Times,’ 2nd edit. 1869, p. 564 ; 
Igyo ■'P'-cially Ui e chapters on Religion in his 1 Origin of Civilisation,’ 
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