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Yet he was full of that Faith which the animals have to such an admirable degree unhesitating faith in the inner promptings of his OWN nature; he had the joy which comes of abounding vitality, springing up like a fountain whose outlet is free and unhindered; he rejoiced in an untroubled and unbroken sense of unity with his Tribe, and in elaborate social and friendly institutions within its borders; he had a marvelous sense-acuteness towards Nature and a gift in that direction verging towards "second-sight"; strengthened by a conviction which had never become CONSCIOUS because it had never been QUESTIONED of his own personal relation to the things outside him, the Earth, the Sky, the Vegetation, the Animals.
In fields where sense-acuteness wins, the keenest of eye, ears, and nose are the fittest. When we come to the race of man, the fittest to survive, from our moral and intellectual point of view, is not always the best. The lower orders of humanity are usually better fitted to survive than the higher orders they are much more prolific and adaptive.
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