The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform

by James Harvey Robinson

III

Nous étions déjà si vieux quand nous sommes nés.—ANATOLE FRANCE.

Simia quam similis, turpissima bestia, nobis?—ENNIUS.

Tous les homines se ressemblent si fort qu'il n'y a point de peuple dont les sottises ne nous doivent faire trembler.—FONTENELLE.

The savage is very close to us indeed, both in his physical and mental make-up and in the forms of his social life. Tribal society is virtually delayed civilization, and the savages are a sort of contemporaneous ancestry.—WILLIAM I. THOMAS.