All, if not most animals, have brains. Man, in common with his kingdom,
has a brain; but because of its greater weight and perfection,
scientists see in it an illustration of man’s vast superiority over all
below him.
Note has to be taken among the mammalia themselves, from the
marsupials to man, of the presence or absence of one testing
character, and that the chief--the perfect brain. This is found
in one creature, occupying, as it were, the inner ring and core
of the concentric circles of vitality, and in one alone. In
the lowest variety of man it is present--present in the negro
or the bushman as in the civilized European; and absent in all
below man--absent in the ape or the elephant as truly as in the
kangaroo or the duckmole. To all men the pleno-cerebral type
is common: to man, as such, it is peculiar. And till we hear
of some simian tribe which speculates on its own origin, or
discusses its own place in the scale of being, we shall be safe
in opposing the human brain, with its sign in language, culture,
capacity of progress, as a barrier to Mr. Darwin’s scheme.
(284)
=Bravery=--See LOYALTY.