38 THE MONKEY TRIBE 



its lower region is formed closely after the human pattern, 

 but its teeth are less human than are those of the tarsier of 

 Celebes, while its nose and brain are less perfect than those 

 of the gibbons. 



Monkeys are too numerous in species for anything 

 approaching complete enumeration. In the accompanying 

 plates are figured representatives of many of the principal 

 families, and our remarks will be largely confined to those 

 thus presented to the eye. The reader will be better 

 enabled to discriminate between man, made in the likeness 

 of his Maker, a moral agent and a reasoning soul, and 

 the most highly developed ape, whose intelligence ranks 

 below that of the faithful dog. We shall give not a mere 

 description of the various members of the monkey tribe, but 

 also remark upon their instincts, their varied dispositions 

 and different degrees of intelligence, together with some 

 consideration of their economic value to mankind. 



This plan will be adopted throughout our review of the 

 Mammalia, so as to bring vividly before the eye and the 

 mind that there is nothing more wonderful in all the world 

 than an organised body possessed of life, motion, sensation, 

 and thought. We shall find that the divine Artist with 

 unerring precision has endowed each animal with just the 

 qualities best fitted to its needs. It is not only the heavens 

 that ' declare the glory of God/ not only the firmament that 

 'sheweth His handy work.' Throughout the phenomena of 

 animal life from man downwards to the meanest reptile or 

 insect that creeps upon the earth, God's infinite wisdom is 

 unfailingly displayed. 



SECTION LANTHROPOIDEA. 



In this section are all the animals which resemble man 

 (Greek, anthropos, man). Strictly the term monkey, as used 

 by the specialists, includes only one group of the great 

 Simian family ; but the popular use includes apes, baboons, 

 and lemurs, notwithstanding the fact that the last named, as 

 well as the marmosets, are provided with claws instead of 

 flat nails. 



