* Like the Roman emperors, who, intoxicated by their 

 power, at length regarded themselves as demigods, so the 

 ruler of the earth believes that the animals subjected to his 

 will have nothing in common with his own nature. Man is 

 not content to be the king of animals. He insists on having 

 it that an impassable gulf separates him from his subjects. 

 The affinity of the ape disturbs and humbles him. And, 

 turning his back upon the earth, he flies, with his threatened 

 majesty, into the cloudy sphere of a special " human 

 kingdom." But Anatomy, like those slaves who followed 

 the conqueror's car crying, " Thou art a man," disturbs him 

 in his self-admiration, and reminds him of those plain and 

 tangible realities which unite him with the animal world.' — 

 Broca. 



