12 FACTS AGAINST FICTION. 



Darwin's man monkeys, not yet ascended to 

 humanity, 'are ornamented with beards, whiskers, 

 and moustaches." I see them very frequently in 

 man, the beard sometimes in such over-profusion, 

 when contrasted with the small, pale, monkey-faco 

 to which it is ostentatiously appended, and the 

 attenuated legs over which it presides, that the 

 possessors of this hirsute horror remind me of small 

 vegetable productions which have let themselves 

 run to seed, and become miserably impoverished 

 by the crop which their constitutions, their chins, 

 and their conceits have not the stamina healthfully 

 to sustain. 



I am glad, however, that Darwin, in his re- 

 search, at times foundationless, has set at rest, to 

 some extent, the doubt as to the ^^ wisdom of a 

 child in knowing its own father." He tells us that 

 he himself, and all naturalists who believe in ^'the 

 principle of evolution," will grant that the two 

 main divisions of the ^^ Simiad^ie," namely, the 

 ^^Catarhine" and ^^ Platyrhine " monkeys, have 

 all proceeded from some one extremely ancient 

 j)rogenitor. 



Darwin saj^s, at page 336 of the second volume, 

 that ^^ Dr. Seemann observes greater intensity of 



