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brother's kitchen. " Are we not (dropping his hat upon the ground) 

 gone in a moment ? " Reader, inspect the Zoological Gardens, in 

 Regent's Park, from morning till night where there is always a 

 charming show of monkeys and I will stake my ears, that you never 

 see one of them do that which we commonly call the act of throwing 

 a stone at any intervening object. 



I will now cross the channel, and peep into the books of foreign 

 naturalists who have written on monkeys. I find in one of these 

 authors that, "in relative qualities, therefore, the ape is farther re- 

 moved from the human race than most other animals." Granted. 

 He then continues, that " his temperament is also very different 

 Man can inhabit every climate. He lives and multiplies in the 

 northern as well as in the southern regions of the earth. But the 

 ape exists with difficulty in temperate countries, and can multiply 

 only in those that are warm." I must make an observation or two 

 upon this last quotation, in which our great continental naturalist 

 does not appear to have paid sufficient attention to his subject. 

 Methinks he ought to have reflected that man and monkey are both 

 made of flesh and blood, but that man has been endowed with reason 

 by his Maker, whilst the monkey has not been so fortunate. This 

 makes all the difference with regard to "temperament." Reason 

 teaches man to protect himself against the rigours of a northern 

 climate by fire and blanket. Did the monkey possess the blessing 

 of reason, so that he could buy, or manufacture for himself, a com- 

 fortable roquelaure in case of cold, and roast a leg of mutton for his 

 dinner, and mix a glass of hot toddy before he went to bed he, too, 

 as well as rational man, would be safe, and would enjoy himself in 

 the deepest recesses of the frozen zone. Now, deprive man of his 

 roquelaure, his mutton, and his toddy, and then place him alongside 

 of the monkey, to pass a week in Nova Zembla, whilst the sun is at 

 Capricorn, be assured that both man and ape would perish side by 

 side proof sufficient that the natural " temperament " is much the 

 same in both animals ; but that reason nourishes it in the one, whilst 

 the want of reason destroys it in the other. Instinct alone is not 

 sufficient to procure a sufficient supply of artificial food for the 

 monkey, wherefore this animal must depend upon the bounty of 

 mature for its daily nutriment ; and this nutriment can only be had, 



