r species. Each has its own kind of
strength. To be compelled to be so quick-minded as the simians would be
torture, to cows. Cows could dwell on one idea, week by week, without
trying at all; but they'd all have brain-fever in an hour at a simian
tea. A super-cow people would revel in long thoughtful books on
abstruse philosophical subjects, and would sit up late reading them.
Most of the ambitious simians who try it--out of pride--go to sleep.
The typical simian brain is supremely distractable, and it's really too
jumpy by nature to endure much reflection.

Therefore many more of them will be well-informed than sagacious.

This will result in their knowing most things far too soon, at too
early a stage of civilization to use them aright. They will learn to
make valuable explosives at a stage in their growth, when they will use
them not only in industries, but for killing brave men. They will
devise ways to mine coal efficiently, in enormous amounts, at a stage
when they won't know enough to conserve it, and will waste their few
stores. They will use up a lot of it in a simian habit[3] called
travel. This will consist in queer little hurried runs over the globe,
to see ten thousand things in the hope of thus filling their minds.

[3] Even in a wild state, the monkey is restless and does not
live in lairs.

Their minds will be full enough. Their intelligence will be active and
keen. It will have a constant tendency however to outstrip their
wisdom. Their intelligence will enable them to build great industrial
systems before they have the wisdom and goodness to run them aright.
They will form greater political empires than they will have strength
to guide. They will endlessly quarrel about which is the best scheme of
government, without stopping to realize that learning to govern comes
first. (The average simian will imagine he knows without learning.)

The natural result will be industrial and political wars. In a world of
unmanageable structures, wild smashes must come.

_TEN_

Inventions will come so easily to simians (in comparison with all other
creatures) and they will take such childish pleasure in monkeying
around, making inventions, that their many devices will be more of a
care than a comfort. In their homes a large part of their time will
have to be spent keeping their numerous ingenuities in good working
order--their elaborate bell-ringing arrangements, their locks and their
clocks