ARE WE INFERIOR TO SAY AGES.
' :• —* ———- Some startling propositions are advanced : by. Dr. Russell Wallace in tho "Fortnightly Review,"'in which' he .argues, that >tbe'general idea that our enormous advances in scionce ? and command over nature sorvo as den\on« ' strations'of our mental superiority' to the men'. J of earlier ages is totally unfounded.! "Tim .• ovidonco of history aiid of the earliest. :r."numehts aliko go to indicate that our iiitoliec- ' tual and moral naturo has llot advanced in 1 any perceptiblo degroe. ill the second jsiisco,.. we find that tho supposed great. mont.-O in- ' foriority. of -savages is equally unfounded. Tho more, they iu-o sympathetically studied the.more they aro fonnd to resemble ourselvec in thoir inherent intellectual, powers.. Jivoi' ' the sb-long-de»spised Australians—almost'th& * lowest ini'.. material . progress—yet show .bv i their oomplox language, thoir elalxirnto so-. cial regulations, and often by an innate nobility of eharactor, indications of a vot* sipiilar inner naturo to our own. On tho othoi hind, wo find in tho higher I'acifio typra won who, though savages as regards' material progress, are yot generally admitted to bo—physically, intellectually, and morally—ou? equals ! if hot-car superiors." . ■ '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 11
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185ARE WE INFERIOR TO SAY AGES. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 134, 29 February 1908, Page 11
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