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tends to demonstrate that, instead of our being led to rank these 

 animals as psychically low, and as taking a humble place in respect 

 of their intelligence, we must assign to them the highest rank among 

 quadrupeds, when judged by the standard applied to other animals, 

 or even to man himself. It is no wild dream, but a sober vision of 

 science, that the causes which have tended to raise the ape-family in 

 the scale of being, are largely identical with those to which man owes 

 his proud designation as " the paragon of animals." 



