A great chasm between man and anthropoids is constituted, as I believe, by the fact that the human race is capable of education, and is able to acquire the highest mental culture, while the most intelligent anthropoid can only receive a certain mechanical training. And even to this training a limit is set by the surly temper displayed by anthropoids as they get older. They are interesting subjects of study in the menagerie, but they never become, like our ordinary domestic animals, useful members of the household economy. I myself hold that all human races are capable of culture, while differing in the degree to which it is possible for them to attain. I do not, for example, suppose that a tribe of Queensland Australians can be so educated as to be placed on a level with the highest intellects of our own nation. But how many ages it has taken to raise us so far above the Papuans! It is indeed manifest that even very rude savages may be constituted serviceable members of human society, as we may see from the changes which have taken place among the Sandwich Islanders, the Tahitians, and the Maoris in the course of the last eighty years. In our days the envoys of the Queen of Madagascar have understood how to move in the highest Berlin circles with high-bred demeanour, and we must recognize this fact as significant, without, however, deluding ourselves by too wide deductions from it. The remark has often been made that the African blacks, Indians, etc., display great docility when young, and are very receptive of wisdom and culture, but stop short at a certain point, as if unable to advance beyond it, and sometimes, indeed, like apes in advancing age, relapse into their originally savage state. It may, however, be inferred that these attempts to educate young savages are generally wrecked by mistaken methods of instruction. The young sons of nature are often too much indulged, their childish performances are over-estimated, their minds are over-taxed, the due development of mind and body is checked; they become arrogant, and then people are surprised that, as self-consciousness increases in their immature brains, a greater or less amount of conceit is developed. There are cases in which a savage, who has been with much labour educated and civilized, relapses into barbarism, and comes to a violent end as the enemy of his former protector, as a robber or a rebel; yet, even to the end of his life, he has developed qualities and conditions which recall to him better times. We see an example of this in some of the civilized Maoris who afterwards joined the revolted tribes, and who introduced among their countrymen the strength of a firmer organization against the English supremacy. The bearing of these relapsed savages always has in it something higher than we can trace in the savage obstinacy of a morose old chimpanzee or orang.