The faculty of counting.

Confusion of the individual and the species.
But primitive man not only considered the body as a homogeneous mass with the life and qualities distributed equally over it.

He further, it may be suggested, did not distinguish between the individual and the species.

The reason for this was that he could not count, and had no idea of numbers.

The faculty of counting appears to have been acquired very late.Messrs.Spencer and Gillan remark of the aborigines of Central Australia: [126] "While in matters such as tracking, which are concerned with their everyday life, and upon efficiency in which they actually depend for their livelihood, the natives show conspicuous ability, there are other directions in which they are as conspicuously deficient.