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that the monkey was parent or progeny of Man ; 

 thus, this Scylla and Charybdis being happily 

 steered past, I merely find it necessary to re- 

 affirm my fixed belief in the gradual origina- 

 tion of both from a general parent, each dis- 

 tinct from birth and each preserving that dis- 

 tinctiveness unto the present epoch, modified 

 somewhat, it is true, in the instance of the hu- 

 man individual owing to his germ-endowment 

 with the rudiments of primarily cultivatible 

 and incalculably higher functions. 



I feel assured that skeletons or rock-preser- 

 ved hairy specimens of this ancestor of the 

 two species will ultimately be excavated from 

 the strata preceding that in which remains of 

 Man and of the Monkey have been found, to 

 at once and forever confound the silly, the 

 incredible, the sense-ofi"ending relation of the 

 Book of Genesis; hashed together and served 

 up to the simple by posturing and imposturing 

 knaves of priests. The greater perishability 

 and much more restricted production and dis 

 tribution of the human frame in those remote 

 ages, together with the very limited extent of 

 the exploration of this but recently thrown 

 open field have so far precluded success. 



Thus, then, was Satyr Man. Behold him ! 



