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the obvious resemblance between man and the 

 lower primates excited in early times a very 

 lively interest. I do not think, however, it would 

 have occurred to Shakespeare, who was decidedly 

 "on the side of the angels/' to include them in 

 one sub-order. His view, if less morphologically 

 correct, was a higher one : " What a piece of work 

 is a man ! how noble in reason ! how infinite in 

 faculty ! in form and moving how express and 

 admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in appre- 

 hension how like a god ! " 



