30 ON THE AFFINITIES AND DIFFEKENCES BETWEEN THE 



associated with that highest form of brain/ which possessed pro- 

 cessus digitatos upon its hippocampus major, must have had their 

 convictions rudely shocked by this retractation. The twenty-sixth 

 page of the same memoir but added to the uncomfortable feelings 

 of their materialistic minds ; for it contains a specification of no less 

 than five other points, in which the Asiatic anthropomorphous ape 

 coincided with man, and contrasted with inferior simiadae. It is 

 possible, however, that the teaching of Bossuet was more familiar 

 to that generation than it seems to be to the present, for it had, as 

 M. Isidore St. Hilaire hints 1 , been reproduced for them in the 

 then standard work of Buff on 2 . * If,' says Bossuet (De la Con- 

 naissance de Dieu et de Soi-meme, chap. 5, xii), 'organs are com- 

 mon to man and brute, one is necessarily forced to the conclusion 

 that intelligence is not attached to organs; that it depends upon 

 another principle ' — ' et que Dieu sous les memes apparences a pu 

 cacher divers tresors ' — an argument, the cogency of which, as M. 

 St. Hilaire remarks, increases as the number of organs common to 

 the two subjects of comparison becomes more numerous and their 

 resemblance more striking. 



To conclude the subject of the ventricular surface or internal 

 cavity of the brains we are comparing : within the present month a 

 drawing of the ventricular cavity of the orang-utang has been laid 

 before the English public by two Dutch anatomists, Schroeder 

 Van der Kolk and Vrolik. Nearly 150 years ago a very similar 

 drawing of the human lateral ventricles, by the celebrated Eusta- 

 chius, was given to the world in Lancisi's 3 edition of his but little 

 more celebrated predecessor's plates. Those were the days of 

 thorough -going anthropotomy, before attention to what the pre- 

 sent Professor of Anatomy at Berlin calls mikroscopische Spielereien 

 (Reichert, 'Bau des Menschlichen Gehirn,' ii. 22) had drawn 

 men's minds away from dissection and description ; and a testimony 

 from their writings may therefore seem to have more weight than 

 those of more modern times. The cerebellum comes into view in the 

 figures of the Dutch anatomists, as will be explained as we proceed, 

 and in this point the two figures of this month and of a century 



1 ' Hist. Nat.' torn. ii. p. 252. 



2 'Hist. Nat.'xiv.p. 61. 



3 'Tabulae Anatom. Bartholomaei Eustachii,' ed. Jo. Maria Lancisius, Romae, 

 mdccxiv. Tab. xvii. Figs. 3, 4, and 5. 



