MAN AND APES. 175 



the part of the long-tailed, thumbless Spider 

 Monkeys. 



If the obliquely-ridged teeth of Simia and 

 Troglodytes point to community of origin, how 

 can we deny a similar community of origin, 

 as thus estimated, to the Howling Monkeys 

 and Gal ago s ? 



The liver of the Gibbons proclaims them 

 almost human ; that of the Gorilla declares 

 him comparatively brutal. 



The ear lobule of the Gorilla makes him 

 our cousin ; but his tongue is eloquent in his 

 own dispraise. 



The slender Loris, from amidst the Half- 

 apes, can put in many a claim to be our 

 shadow refracted, as it were, through a 

 Lemurine prism. 



The lower American apes meet us with 

 what seems " the front of Jove himself," 

 compared with the gigantic but low-browed 

 denizens of tropical Western Africa. 



In fact, in the words of the illustrious 

 Dutch naturalists, Messrs. Schroeder van der 



