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^ 0r their common defence. It is no argument against 
savage man being a social animal, that the tribes in- 
habiting adjacent districts are almost always at war 
' y ith each other; for the social instincts never extend 
to all the individuals of the same species. Judging 
ti'om the analogy of the greater number of the Quad- 
r Umana, it is probable that the early ape-like pro- 
genitors of man were likewise social ; but this is not of 
rn,le h importance for us. Although man, as he now 
exists, has few special instincts, having lost any which 
his early progenitors may have possessed, this is no 
Reason why he should not have retained from an ex- 
tremely remote period some degree of instinctive love 
a nd sympathy for his fellows. We are indeed all con- 
scious that we do possess such sympathetic feelings ; IJ 
u t our consciousness does not tell us whether they are 
instinctive, having originated long ago in the same 
fanner as with the lower animals, or whether they have 
been acquired by each of us during our early years. 
man is a social animal, it is also probable that he 
' v ould inherit a tendency to be faithful to his comrades, 
this quality is common to most social animals. He 
w °uld in ]j],; e manner possess some capacity for self- 
command, and perhaps of obedience to the leader of 
community. He would from an inherited tendency 
“till he willing to defend, in concert with others, his 
bdlow-men, and would he ready to aid them in any 
" a y which did not too greatly interfere with his own 
"'clfare or liis own strong desires. 
-the social animals which stand at the bottom of the 
Hume remarks (‘An. Enquiry Concerning the Principles ofMorals, 
mt. of 1751 , p. 132 ), “ there seems a necessity for confessing that the 
„ "fPPiness and misery of others arc not spectacles altogether in- 
‘efferent to us, but that the view of the former . . . communicates a 
*, s . ecret j°y; the appearance of the latter . . . throws a melancholy 
’ dni p over the imagination.” 
