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tant facts in the psychology of man. Sympathy and 

 curiosity lie at the foundation of human civilisa- 

 tion, sympathy at the foundation of morals, and 

 curiosity of invention and science. The monkey 

 whose diary appears in the closing pages of 

 Romanes' ' Animal Intelligence ' was possessed of 

 an almost ravenous desire to - know. He spent 

 hour after hour in exploration, examining with 

 the indomitable patience of a scientist everything 

 that came within the bounds of his little horizon. 

 And when he had found out any new thing, he was 

 as delighted over it as a boy who has solved a 

 hard problem, repeating the experiment over and 

 over until it was thoroughly familiar to him. 

 Among the many things he discovered for himself 

 was the use of the lever and the screw. Monkeys 

 are the most affectionate of all animals excepting 

 dogs and men. This affection reaches its culmina- 

 tion, as among men, in the love of the mother for 

 her child. The mother monkey's little one is the 

 object of her constant care and affection. She 

 nurses and bathes it, licks it and cleans its coat, 

 and folds it in her arms and rocks it as if to lull 

 it to sleep, just as human mammas do. She 

 divides every bite with her little one, but does not 

 hesitate to chastise it with slaps and pinches when 

 it is rude. The monkey child is generally very 

 obedient, obedient enough for an example to 

 many a human youngster. 



' Very touching,' says Brehm, from whom many 

 of the foregoing facts are gleaned, ' is the conduct 

 of the mother when her baby is obviously suffer- 



