there is a vast difference between some of them and the 

 human beings who answer to the above description. One 

 need but visit the travelling menagerie of Messrs. 

 Edmunds, and view their " missing link," an excellent 

 sample of the chimpanzee troglodyte, to see that the 

 difference between man and the lower animals is one 

 only of degree, quite as much as regards intellect as 

 bodily form. I once saw exhibited in the Jardin 

 d 1 Acclimatation, in Paris, a lot of Patagonian or Fuegan (I 

 forget which) natives, who were very little superior intel- 

 lectually to the chimpanzee. They were stark naked, in 

 a wretchedly dirty condition, and appeared quite incap- 

 able of anything like sustained mental effort. But these 

 are by no means the lowest among the human species. 

 In conclusion, I need only re-state my opinion that 

 all so-called living things are but products of the develop- 

 ment of protoplasm, whether belonging to the animal or 

 vegetable kingdoms ; that this protoplasm possesses the 

 property of vitality, or the power of perceiving stimuli 

 of various kinds and responding to them by definite 

 movements ; that the phenomena of mind are but 

 functional manifestations of this protoplasmic develop- 

 ment ; and that the highest intellectual product of the 

 human mind exists and has existed from eternity in a 

 state of latent potentiality in every atom of protoplasm, 

 as well as in every particle of matter in the universe. 



