II. 



oil THE EELATIOJ^S OF MAIST TO THE 

 LOWEE AISTIMALS. 



Multis videri poterit, majorem esse differentiam Simiae et Hominis, quam diei 

 et noetis ; verum tamen hi, comparatione instituta inter siimmos Europoe 

 Heroes et Hottentottos ad Caput bonse sp.ei degentes, difficillime sibi per- 

 suadebunt, has eosdem habere natales; vel si virginem nobilem aulieam, 

 maxime contain et humanissimam, conferre vellent cum homine sylvestri et 

 sibi relicto, vix augurari possent, hunc et illam ejusdem esse speciei. — Lin- 

 ncei Amcenitates Acad. ''''Anthropomorphay 



The question of questions for mankind — the problem 

 whicla underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting 

 than any other — is the ascertainment of the place which 

 Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the uni- 

 verse 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 into the world. Most of us, 

 shrinking from the difficulties and dangers which beset the 

 seeker after original answers to these riddles, are contented 

 to ignore them altogether, or to smother the investigating 

 spirit under the featherbed of respected and respectable 

 tradition. But, in every age, one or two restless spirits, 

 blessed with that constructive genius, which can only build 



