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differences between the men of distinct races, is so 

 notorious that not a word need here be said. So it 

 is with the lower animals, as has been illustrated by 

 a few examples in the last chapter. All who have had 

 charge of menageries admit this fact, and we see it 

 plainly in our dogs and other domestic animals. Brehm 

 especially insists that each individual monkey of those 

 which he kept under confinement in Africa had its own 

 peculiar disposition and temper : he mentions one baboon 

 remarkable for its high intelligence ; and the keepers 

 in the Zoological Gardens pointed out to me a monkey, 

 belonging to the New World division, equally remark- 

 able for intelligence. Eengger, also, insists on the di- 

 versity in the various mental characters of the monkeys 

 of the same species which he kept in Paraguay; and 

 this diversity, as he adds, is partly innate, and partly 

 the result of the manner in which they have been 

 treated or educated. 8 



I have elsewhere 9 so fully discussed the subject of 

 Inheritance that I need here add hardly anything. A 

 greater number of facts have been collected with respect 

 to the transmission of the most trifling, as well as of the 

 most important characters in man than in any of the 

 lower animals ; though the facts are copious enough 

 with respect to the latter. So in regard to mental 

 qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, 

 horses, and other domestic animals. Besides special 

 tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and 

 good temper, &c, are certainly transmitted. With man 

 we see similar facts in almost every famil} r ; and we 



8 Brehm, ' Thierleben,' B. i. s. 58, 87. Piengger, ' S'augethiere von 



Paraguay,' s. 57. 



9 k Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii. 

 chap. xii. 



