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monkeys and lemurs are wont to catch, to tear to pieces, and to 

 devour other animals, i.e., that they are occasional in-feeders, 

 as they undoubtedly, even as cross-feeders, are given to the 

 unsymbiotic practice of crunching up the fruits, kernel and all. 

 Man's superiority, then, was due to the fact that he was less 

 bestial than the monkeys. Otherwise expressed, he was compara- 

 tively virtuous. Virtue was his making ecce homo. " Freedom 

 with Virtue takes her seat." 



To every thinking person, the narrative of the ascent of man 

 is one of the most fascinating of stories ; but it cannot be fully 

 told until we have a more complete re-interpretation of the lives 

 of plants and animals and of their mutual relations. 



