424 MAN. 



with sticks and stones, to copulate face to face, to carry their young 1 

 either in their arms or on their backs, and to be very lascivious 

 in regard to our species ; the orang-outangs at first sight afford, 

 if any of the genus can afford, a little probability to the opinion 

 of a close connection between apes and the human race. Un- 

 civilised men, too, make a slight approach in many corporeal 

 particulars, as we shall hereafter find, to the structure of other 

 animals, and, since also the circumstances of their existence call 

 into action few of the peculiar mental powers of our nature, they 

 have been adduced in corroboration of this opinion. But the 

 least examination displays differences of the greatest magnitude 

 between the human and the brute creation.* These we shall 



the other a chimpanse', are said by their keepers to have sometimes laughed 

 when much pleased, but never to have wept. Steller states the fact of weep- 

 ing in regard to the phoca ursina ; Pallas, in regard to the camel ; and Hum- 

 boldt, in regard to a small American monkey. 



* In La Fontaine's charming fable of Le Singe et IK Dauphin, the former 

 during a shipwreck, near Athens, resolves to profit by his resemblance to man, 

 for whom the dolphin was anciently said to have a great regard. In the hurry, 



Un dauphin le prit pour un homnie, 

 Et sur son dos le fit asseoir 

 Si gravement, qu'on cut cru voir 

 Le chanteur que tant on renomme. 



Just before landing him, the dolphin asked whether he often saw the Piraeus, 

 to which he unfortunately replied, 



Tons les jours : il est mon ami : 

 C'est une vieille connnissance. 



One glance was sufficient to discover the difference between a man and 

 a monkey. 



Le dauphin rit, tournc la tete ; 



Et, le magot conside're, 



II s'apper?oit qu'il n'a tire 



Du fond des caux rien qu'iinc b6te : 



II 1'y replonge, et va trouver 



Quelque hommc a fin dc le bauver. 



