The Descent of Man

CHAPTER V.
ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INTE-
LLECTUAL AND MORAL FACULTIES DU-
RING PRIMEVAL AND CIVILISED TIMES.
Advancement of the intellectual powers
through natural selection— Importance of imitation—Social
and moral faculties—Their development
within the limits of the same tribe—
Natural selection as affecting civilised nations—Evidence
that civilised nations were
once barbarous.
The subjects to be discussed in this chapter are
of the highest interest, but are treated by me in
an imperfect and fragmentary manner. Mr.
Wallace, in an admirable paper before referred
to (1. Anthropological Review, May 1864, p.
clviii.), argues that man, after he had partially
acquired those intellectual and moral faculties
which distinguish him from the lower animals,
would have been but little liable to bodily mo-