. The Bible and science. ble to them as our languageis to us. But none of them, even the most highlydeveloped, can draw a figure, or write a line, whereassome of the lowest tribes of mankind, such as theBushmen, draw figures with considerable accuracy, andgroup them together so that their fellows who comeafterwards may understand the history or train of ideaswhich the draughtsman meant to communicate. Even in the early stages of the world, while menwere still unacquainted with the use of metals andused implements of unpolished stone, they were ableto draw pictures with no little artistic skill
. The Bible and science. ble to them as our languageis to us. But none of them, even the most highlydeveloped, can draw a figure, or write a line, whereassome of the lowest tribes of mankind, such as theBushmen, draw figures with considerable accuracy, andgroup them together so that their fellows who comeafterwards may understand the history or train of ideaswhich the draughtsman meant to communicate. Even in the early stages of the world, while menwere still unacquainted with the use of metals andused implements of unpolished stone, they were ableto draw pictures with no little artistic skill, as we seefrom the sketch of a battle between rein-deer scratched R 242 ORIGIN OF MAN FROM A SINGLE STOCK. by one of them with a flint upon a slab of slate(Fig. 12G), The differences in appearance and anatomical struc-ture between man and the highest anthropoid apes, arenot nearly so great as between these apes and thelemurs. But in mental power there is a wide, impass-able gulf between man and the highest apes, however. Fig. 126.—Sketcli of a battle between rtin-deer. much they may resemble him physically. Great arethe differences between the civilised Englishman onthe one hand, and the barbarous Australian or Bushmanon the other, but they are not so fundamental as thosebetween the lowest man and the highest ape. Thewords of Scripture are, God made of one blood all CAUSES OF MIGRATION. 248 nations upon the earth, and, great as may be thedifferences between them, we must regard them asspringing from one common stock and migrating fromone common centre. It is therefore of extreme interest,not only to observe the points in which they agreeand those in which they differ, but also to try as far aspossible to discover in what way they have spread froma common centre over the whole of the inhabited of the great causes of the migration of man isscarcity of food, as we have already seen exemplified inthe migration of the Jews into Egypt, and may seeconstantly going on in t
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