MEGALOMANNIA 295 



minds. That, mentally and corporeally, we are no 

 more nor less than the chief animal in this world, is 

 now indeed, a proven and, scientifically speaking, 

 an admitted thing ; and I think it is time that those 

 who, with scientific pretensions, seem yearning, more 

 and more, to spell man with a capital M, should be 

 called upon to state their views in regard to that 

 mighty assemblage of beings, but for which he (or 

 He) would never have appeared here at all, yet 

 which, notwithstanding, they seem determined to 

 ignore. 



