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no better, save that civilization and 

 industrious education have made them 

 appear in a more refined shape, and long- 

 inculcated precepts have been mistaken 

 for cognate principles of honesty and 

 natural knowledge." 



The theory of your ape descent was 

 more confidently set forth in the 

 following century by the celebrated 

 Scotch judge, James Burnett, more fami- 

 liarly known by his title of LORD 

 MONBODDO, who boldly traced your 

 pedigree from monkeys, and affirmed that 

 in some countries men had tails like other 

 beasts. Your great lexicographer, Dr. 

 JOHNSON, was thought vainly, as time has 

 proved to have put down his foot on 

 the theory by observing, " Of a standing 

 fact, sir, there ought to be no controversy ; 

 if there are men with tails, they hide them, 

 but Monboddo is as jealous of his tail as a 

 squirrel.''* One of your most distinguished 

 professors of the 19th century, a really 

 learned man apart from his being called a 



* BoswelTs Life of Johnson, iv. 73. 



