Capitolo 62
or rather this chain of the causality, felt is manufactured everywhere; no
tall intelligence without an extremely developed prehensile and avid
organ.
Perhaps the opossum is very better the and the most greater part of crucial example that
you/he/she could possibly be alleged some intimate connection that exists
among touch and intellect. For the opossum a marsupial is; it belongs
to the same group of modest-organized, antiquated, and purse-that door
animals as the kangaroo, the wombat and the other slow Australian
mammalian. Each now knows the marsupials as a class it is not anything
short of preternaturally stupid. They is almost the very dull ones
and more fool of all the existing quadrupeds. And this enough it is reasonable,
when one comes to think about him, for them they represent a very ancient and
first type, the first raw squirt of the mammalian idea if I am able this way
describes them, with unsharpened of intelligence as he/she anchors from contact with the world
in the fierce competition of the struggle for the life as it exposes
it on the crowded stage of the great continents. They is standing, in
short, to the lions and tigers, the elephants and horses, the monkeys
and squirrels, of Europe and America as the Australian blackfellow
stands to the English or the Yankee. They is the last relic of the
quadruped secondary and original, run aground for centuries in a remote Southerner
island, and holding on anchor among Australian forests the ancient type
of life that has gone first out of way in Europe, Asia and America
the chalk was staid down or the Clay Londinese deposited on the bed of ours
northern oceans. From now them anchor they have very narrow brains, and it is this way
extremely stupid that a kangaroo, is said--although I don't attest for
it me--when it struck an intelligent hit, it will turn and the baton that
it hurts him/it instead of spending his/her anger on the hand that contains him/it.
Every girl of Girton is now well, aware that the opossum, although you/he/she is a
marsupial it differs inexpressibly also in psychological development from,