The morning call., 1893-10-15

thinking that another being has its will, and
hence it follows that guide of its destiny.
A horse has to a great extent many of
the self-sacrihcng qualities of the dog.
1t ratiocinates Unquestionably. and is
often self sacrificing in moments
of peril. There really is nothing
whimsical in the adventures of the high
wayman's mare in Lorna DOone."
Man, as the highest of the vertebrates
and mammals. presents every phase of
contrast in relation to the law of struggle
for existence. He is not much higher in
his range of wants than the brute when
we go back 10 the ages to his infancy In
the paleolithic and neolithic periods,
which, however. are not chronologically
the same in all countries. There are races
to-day quite as far sunk In primitive SIM
plicity of existence as any that have gone
before. For them the civilization slowly
attained within the historic period has
neither influence nor benefit Too often,
indeed, ii comes to them as blight which
i'm proves them off the face of the earth as
unified to compete against new conditions.
The natives Of Terra del Fuego may lnger
long because nobody wants their sad and
des0late land, but those of Australia
are partly extinct, and the residue are
melting away inevitably. The North
American Indian will survive if he can
live by something else than hunting The
Indians who cannot take TO agriculture,
soldering and trades must disappear.
What, il may be asked, have these diva
cations to do with work, with the sweat
of the brow as mans happiness Oh earth?
Only this, that the higher we mount in
civilization the more differentiated are our
wants, and the more need is there for toll
to crafty them. Primitive man had little
more than food TO think about-food and
war,and in very great degree the one re-
acted on the other War among eannlbals
had an economic turn. for the slain were
assimilated for the sake of their bodies
and their virtues. But when food was
scarce war was legitimate in any new coun-
try that furnished it. The savage, however,
has no inclination to do more work than
be can help. He hunts and fights, and
when polygamous he adds to his wives for
the sake of the toll they perform under his
superintendent
In the tropics or the South Sea islands,
wherever nature is profuse in food sup
plies unaided by mans hus bandry or ex-
ertion, the tendency to lead lives without
much foretb ought is ineradicable. Why
should the negro, the half-breed or full
blooded Indian of Brazil make pleasure
of toll when he has no wants to gratifv
beyond those which cost little to indulge ?
These races of the sun who need little in
clothing. houses or luxuries of any
description have naturally an aver
sion to more tasked exert.on than
L
them in fair abundance without oppressive
striving. and they live a life of Incidence.
But in regions less favored by spon taneity
OF food supply man has to bestir himself
most actively. and in proportion as he has
work and exertion he advances in power
and DEVELOPMENT, is able to organize soci-
ETY. In the complex manner which is forma-
tive OF higher state. and evolves types OF
Intellect transcending those of primitive
man beyond any standard Of comparison
Afforded by the lower animals, unless we
stretch line between the jellyfish and the
dog. Even then the advantage is with
Shakespeare or Newton compared with the
Andaman Islander orthe Terra del Fuegan.
The arDoreal ancestors, second cousins
to the gorilla and chimpanzee, with which
the naturalist duteously provides those
who would rather come down from a
line OF Charlemagnes-(altho the
great Charles could neither read nor
write, and was by no means courtly in
his habits are not far out of the reckoning
in degradation when we think of man in
the dawn OF the quaternary period hunt
ing by running prev down and diving for
FISH like an otter. 1t was that precious
swiyel-moying thumb we possess, and
work that assisted In perfecting the thumb
which lifted NAH forward in the race Of
life. and made hi m the dominant lord of
creation, as some people fondy imagine.
Yet his domiuancy is subject to numerous
Limitations, from natural forces and the
struggle of other forms of life, and
civilized man may sometimes wonder, as
he surveys the myriad hosts of insect life,
whether the tropics were quite parceled
out for his habitation or for other ends at
present.
AS the tropics are without stimulus for
sustained exertion, we do not marvel that
no great man has ever arisen in a hot
country, or has long tiourished mentally
under torpid heat. Distinguished men
have Travelled and studied nature in torrid
cIimes. but their intellectual growth had
its roots in temperate or cold regions
where necessity is the inexorable master.
No one like Newton. Darwin or Helmholtz
has arisen under the vertical sun. and Is
in Saa Dnni