II. 



ON" THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE 

 LOWER ANIMALS. 



Multis videri poterit, majorem esse differentiam Simise et 

 Hominis, quam diei et noctis; verum tamen hi, com- 

 paratione instituta inter summos Europse Heroes et 

 Hottentottes ad Caput bonae spei degentes, difficillime 

 sibi persuadebunt, has eosdem habere natales; vel si 

 virginem nobilem aulicam, maxime comtam et hu- 

 manissimain, conferre vellent cum homine sylvestri et 

 sibi relicto, vix augurari possent, hunc et illam ejus- 

 dem esse speciei. — Linucei Amoenitates Acad. " Anthro- 

 pomorpha." 



The question of questions for mankind — the 

 problem which underlies all others, and is more 

 deeply interesting than any other — is the ascer- 

 tainment of the place which Man occupies in na- 

 ture and of his relations to the universe of things. 

 Whence our race has come; what are the limits 

 of our power over nature, and of nature's power 

 over us; to what goal we are tending; are the 

 problems which present themselves anew and 

 with undiminished interest to every man born 



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