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stands intellectually head and shoulders above the whole 

 ape tribe. Having said and endeavoured to enforce which, 

 I may now repeat that structurally and physically you and 

 Sally or shall I rather say Sally and I ? are not so very 

 far apart ; and that even intellectually there was a time, 

 during early childhood, when I was nearer the monkey 

 than I trust I am now. 



In this chapter I am to tell you something about Sally's 

 poor relations ; by which I mean the Primates (pronounce 

 if you please the three syllables, lest you should think I 

 allude to certain dignitaries of the Church) the Pri-ma-tes 

 lower than the anthropoid apes in the scale of life. But 

 before doing so I wish to say a few words about some of 

 Sally's more nearly related cousins most of them cousins- 

 german with whom I have made acquaintance, at a 

 distance, since writing my last paper. Not that I have 

 very much to say about my little friends, for there is a 

 sameness in the childhood of apes and men, the time for 

 originality having not yet come. Four of them were in 

 the Antwerp Zoo two orangs in separate cages, and two 

 chimpanzees who shared common quarters. The orangs 

 were each provided with a blanket, which to most anthro- 

 poids seems the embodied ideal of bliss. It was so with 

 the little chimpanzee in the Clifton Gardens : it was so 

 with these Antwerp orang-utans. They were constantly 

 active, swinging about hither and thither in their large 

 cages, and dragging the blanket after them, muffling 

 themselves therein, or poking their serious heads through 

 convenient rents. The two chimpanzees on the other 

 hand were comparatively inactive or played together list- 

 lessly, aimlessly, with a sad, depressing air of hopeless 

 dejection. Perhaps it was the weather ! Very different 

 however was the mien of the chimpanzee in the Dresden 

 Gardens. One could not indeed but long as one always 



