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and till it is shown how an animal that never 

 got suck stumbled on the capacity of giving 

 what was never given it, the BREAST will 

 stand, against all dreams of development, COM- 

 PANION-BARRIER to the Backbone. Again is 

 heard the elective edict: 'One shall be taken, 

 and three shall be left.' 



"Third, last, innermost leet: note has to be 

 taken among the Mammalia themselves, from 

 the Marsupials to Man, of the presence or 

 absence of one testing character, and that the 

 chief the Perfect Brain. This is found in one 

 creature, occupying, as it were, the inner ring 

 and core of the concentric circles of vitality, and 

 in one alone. In the lowest variety of man it 

 is present present in the Negro or the Bush- 

 man as in the civilized European ;~and absent 

 in all below man absent in the ape or the 

 elephant as truly as in the kangaroo or the 

 duckmole. To all men the pleno-cerebral type 

 is common : to man, as such, it is peculiar. And 

 till we hear of some Simian tribe which 

 speculates on- its own origin, or discusses its 

 own place in the scale of being, we shall be 

 safe in opposing the HUMAN BRAIN, with 

 its sign in language, culture, capacity of pro- 

 gress, as BARRIER THE THIRD to Mr. Darwin's 



