OK THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 

 MAN-LIKE APES. 



ANCIENT traditions, when tested by the severe processes 

 of modern investigation, commonly enough fade away 

 into mere dreams : but it is singular how often the 

 dream turns out to have been a half-waking one, pre- 

 saging a reality. 

 Ovid foreshad- 

 owed the dis- 

 coveries of the 

 geologist : the 

 Atlantis was an 

 imagination, but 

 Columbus found 

 a western world: 

 and though the 

 quaint forms of 

 Centaurs and 

 Satyrs have an 

 existence only in 

 the realms of 



FIG. 1. Simiae magnatum deliciae. De Bry, 1598. art, creatures ap- 



proaching man 

 more nearly than they in essential structure, and yet as 



