CHAP. VI.] MAN. 189 



Nevertheless, man s body must be fairly compared with the 

 bodies of other species of animals more or less like him, and 

 his corporeal affinities thus estimated. 



Let us suppose ourselves, then, to be without bodies our 

 selves, to be purely immaterial intelligences, acquainted only 

 with a world peopled like our own except that the species 

 man had never lived upon it, yet that somehow the dead 

 body of a man was presented for our examination. 



We should then, I think, consider such body to be that of 

 some large ape, and of one differing less widely from the apes 

 most like it in form than do such apes differ from others, 

 e.g., from marmosets. Yet we should note some striking 

 specialities of structure. We should be especially struck 

 with its vast brain, and we should be the more impressed by 

 it when we noted how bulky was the body to which that 

 brain belonged. We should be so impressed because we 

 should have previously noted that, as a general rule, in back 

 boned animals, the larger the bulk of the body the less the 

 relative size of the brain. From our knowledge of the habits 

 and faculties of various animals in relation to their brain- 

 structure, we should be led to infer that the animal man was 

 one possessing great power of co-ordinating movements, and 

 that his emotional sensibility would have been considerable. 

 But, above all, his powers of imagination would have been 

 deemed by us to have been prodigious, with a corresponding 

 faculty of collecting, grouping, and preserving sensible images 

 of objects in complex and coherent aggregations to a de 

 gree much greater than in any other .animal with which we 

 were before acquainted. Did we know that all the various 

 other kinds of existing animals had been developed one from 

 another by evolution ; did we know that the numerous species 

 had been evolved from, potential to actual existence by im 

 planted powers in matter, aided by the influence of incident 

 forces ; then we might reasonably argue by analogy that a 

 similar mode of origin had given rise to the exceptional 

 being, the body of which we were examining. 



If, however, it were made clear to us immaterial intelli- 



