82 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



tea, coffee and spirituous liquors; they 

 will also, as I have myself seen, smoke 

 tobacco with pleasure."* Wild baboons, 

 he adds, are remarkably fond of beer, and 

 strange to say when they drink too much, 

 they have a headache next morning, and 

 relish much the piece of lemon, which is 

 perhaps the nearest approach to the 

 brandy-and-water system adopted by fast 

 young men in the 19th century. An instance 

 is on record of a monkey having become 

 so intoxicated with brandy, that he ever 

 after refused to taste a drop ; by which act 

 of self-denial, as the great Naturalist 

 justly observes, "he proved himself wiser 

 than many men." 



Another argument adduced by Darwin 

 in proof of your descent from the lower 

 animals consists in this : l ' Whoever rej ects 

 with scorn the belief that the shape of his 

 own canines, and their occasional great 

 development in other men, are due to our 

 early progenitors having been provided 



* Descent of Man, i. 12. 



