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habits and faculties of various animals in 

 relation to their brain structure, we should be 

 led to infer that the animal man was one 

 possessing great power of co-ordinating move- 

 ments, and that his emotional sensibility would 

 have been considerable. But above all, his 

 powers of imagination would have been deemed 

 by us to have been prodigious, with a cor- 

 responding faculty of collecting, grouping, and 

 preserving sensible images of objects in com- 

 plex and coherent aggregations to a degree 

 much greater than in any other animal with 

 which we were before acquainted. Did we 

 know that all the various other kinds of 

 existing animals had been developed one from 

 another by evolution ; did we know that the 

 numerous species had been evolved from 

 potential to actual existence by implanted 

 powers in matter, aided by the influence of 

 incident forces; then we might reasonably 

 argue, by analogy, that a similar mode of 

 origin had given rise to the exceptional being, 

 the body of which we were examining. 



