CHAP. VI.] MAN. 167 



acting, impulsive cousin of the wilds, the Homo sylvaticus, is 

 not a useless tenant of his woods and plains, his rocks and 

 rivers. His humble testimony is of the highest value in 

 supporting the claims of his most civilised brothers to a 

 higher than a merely brutal origin. 



The religion of Abraham and Chrysostom, the intellect 

 of Aristotle and Newton, the art of Raphael, of Shakespeare, 

 of Mozart, have their claims to be no mere bestial develop 

 ments, supported by that testimony. Through it these 

 faculties are plainly seen to be different in kind from com 

 plex entanglements of merely animal instincts and sensible 

 impressions. The claims of man, as we know him at his 

 noblest, to be of a fundamentally different nature from the 

 beasts which perish, become reinforced and reinvigorated in 

 our eyes, when we find the very same moral, intellectual, 

 and artistic nature (though disguised, obscured, and often 

 profoundly misunderstood) present even in the rude, uncul 

 tured soul of the lowest of our race, the poor savage Homo 

 sylvaticus. 



Having considered that which is the really essential ques 

 tion man s intellectual nature we may now pass Man&amp;gt;g ^ 

 on to the subordinate question concerning pecu 

 liarities of man s bodily frame, and the value and significa 

 tion of the resemblances presented by it to the various 

 structures which are found to exist in lower members of the 

 animal kingdom. 



Mr. Darwin treats us to a very interesting account, not 

 only of man s anatomy, but also of the habits, diseases, and 

 parasites (internal and external) of man, together with the 

 process of his development. He points out (vol. i. p. 11) 

 not only the close similarity even of cerebral structure 

 between man and apes, but also how the same animals 

 are &quot; liable to many of the same diseases as we are ; thus 

 Eengger, who carefully observed for a long time the Cebus 

 Azarse in its native land, found it liable to catarrh, with 

 the usual symptoms, and which, when often recurrent, 

 led to consumption. These monkeys suffered also from 



