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everything but speech. Mimicry is a characteristic of the lower races of 

 man, but in this point they are excelled by monkeys. Curiosity is shared 

 by both, but the savage does not excel the monkey in the intelligent way 

 in which he endeavors to find out the nature and meaning of things. 

 Monkeys show both affection and sympathy for one another, and instances 

 are cited where they have apparently attempted to reproach man for his 





Fig. 536. — Mandrill (Cynocephalus mormon). 



cruelty, while their sense of the ludicrous and their dislike of ridicule are 

 well known. These, however, are more of the animal characteristics ; 

 they have intellectual ones as well. They possess a good memory and the 

 power to associate together cause and effect, and to draw conclusions. 

 They remember that in one instance certain results followed certain acts ; 

 and so when essentially similar conditions recur, they employ the same 

 tactics and the same operations as before. In short, they reason, and in 



