II 



ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE 

 LOWER ANIMALS 



Multis videri potent, raajorem esse differentiam Simias et 

 Hominis, quam diei et noctis ; verum tamcn hi, comparatione 

 instituta inter summos Europse Heroes et Hottentottes ad 

 Caput bonae spei degentes, difficillime sibi persuadebunt, has 

 eosdera habere natales ; vel si virginem nobilem aulicam, 

 maxime comtam et humanissimam, conferre vellent cum 

 homine sylvestri et sibi relicto, vix augurari possent, hunc el 

 illam ejusdem esse speciei. Linncei Amosnitates Acad. 

 " Anthropomorpha." 



THE question of questions for mankind the 

 problem which underlies all others, and is more 

 deeply interesting than any other is the ascer- 

 tainment of the place which Man occupies in 

 nature and of his relations to the universe of 

 things. Whence our race has come ; what are 

 the limits of our power over nature, and of 

 nature's power over us; to what goal we are 

 tending; are the problems which present them- 

 selves anew and with undiminished interest to 



