HUMAN LIFE 



to anthropoids, and used to go out almost 

 daily to the Zoological Gardens where I 

 had become acquainted with the keeper 

 of the apes. He had a favorite chimpan- 

 zee which he used to keep with him a 

 great deal in his own room or office, and 

 I got into the habit of dropping in fre- 

 quently for an afternoon chat with the 

 friendly pair. The keeper was a rather 

 stolid sort of person who seemed to me to 

 possess a marked paucity of human feeling 

 and expression. On the other hand the 

 chimpanzee seemed possessed of a wide 

 range of human-like interests and feelings 

 and was fascinatingly varied and interest- 

 ing in his expression of them. The con- 

 viction even grew on me that he was 

 almost the more human of the two. 

 He rarely paid me the compliment of 

 showing any special recognition of me or 

 interest in me. I seemed to lack any 

 special traits of attractiveness for him. 

 But when one day, with the permission of 

 the keeper, I brought an American fam- 

 ily with me who had with them a coal 



