IIl.—_ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO 
THE LOWER ANIMALS. 
Multis videri poterit, majorem esse differentiam Simiz et Hominis, quam diei 
et noctis; verum tamen hi, comparatione instituta inter summos Europe 
Heroés et Hottentottos ad Caput bone spei degentes, difficillime sibi per- 
suadebunt, has eosdem habere natales; vel si virginem nobilem aulicam, 
maxime comtam et humanissimam, conferre vellent cum homine sylvestri et 
sibi relicto, vix augurari possent, hunc et illam ejusdem esse speciei.— Linnet 
Amenitates Acad. “ Anthropomorpha.” 
Tur question of questions for mankind—the problem which 
underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any 
other—is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies 
in nature and of his relations to the universe of things. 
Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power 
over nature, and of nature’s power over us; to what goal 
we are tending; are the problems which present themselves 
anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into 
the world. Most of us, shrinking from the difficulties and 
dangers which beset the seeker after original answers to 
these riddles, are contented to ignoxe them altogether, or to 
smother the investigating spirit under the featherbed of re- 
spected and respectable tradition. But, in every age, one or 
two restless spirits, blessed with that constructive genius, 
which can only build on a secure foundation, or cursed with 
the mere spirit of scepticism, are unable to follow in the 
well-worn and comfortable track of their forefathers and con- 
temporaries, and unmindful of thorns and stumbling-blocks, 
strike out into paths of their own. The sceptics end in the 
infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble, or in the 
atheism which denies the existence of any orderly progress 
