6 FACTS AGAINST FICTION. 



Tlio dog is far superior to the ape in the structure 

 and action of the brain, and in point of reason is 

 close on the heels of man. The brain, and the 

 undoubted jDOwer of reason, the strength, recol- 

 lection, and duration of affection for ojie object, and 

 a resolution to defend with his life his master or 

 mistress, who are not of his kin, all tend to prove 

 that, as yet, the dog resembles man, and good men, 

 too, much more than man resembles the ape, how- 

 ever apish man may be ; and, perhaps, in some of 

 the best j)hases of his shorter life, the dog sur2:)asses 

 the said-to-be upright and tailless monkey ! 



Darwin considers the loss of what would now be 

 human tails as the result of what he calls 'Asexual 

 selection" in some original ape, — which ape may 

 have eaten his tail, as sick monkeys sometimes do, 

 or he may have lost it by accident, and not from 

 the good effects of superior intercourse. He also 

 lays great stress on the growth of hair on head 

 and ])eard, and on the fineness and smoothness of 

 skin. Sujipose I carry his vast and superior ob- 

 servations with me at this moment to my pigstye, 

 — begging his pardon for offering so lowly an illus- 

 tration, — I therein invite his attention to some very 

 fair-skinned pigs, fair, in some places, as the very 



