William 0. Post, 



Los Gatos, 

 Santa Clara Co. Calif. 



THE UNIVERSAL KINSHIP 



THE PHYSICAL KINSHIP 



I. Man an Animal. 



IT was in the zoology class at college. We had 

 made all the long journey from amoeba to coral, 

 from coral to worm, from worm to mollusk, from 

 mollusk to fish, from fish to reptile, and from 

 reptile to mammal and there, in the closing pages 

 of faithful old Packard, we found it. ' A mammal 

 of the order of primates,' the book said, with that 

 unconcern characteristic of the deliverances of 

 science. I was almost saddened. It was the 

 first intimation I had ever received of that trite 

 but neglected truth that man is an animal. 



But the intimation was so weak, and I was at 

 that time so unconscious, that it was not till years 

 later that I began, through reflection, actually to 

 realise the truth here first caught sight of. During 

 these years I knew that man was not a mineral 

 nor a plant that, indeed, he belonged to the 



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