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that great Alps and Andes of the living world—Man. Our 
reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened 
by the knowledge, that Manis, in substance and in structure, 
one with the brutes; for, he alone possesses the marvellous 
endowment of intelligible and rational speech, whereby, in 
the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumulated 
and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with 
the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that 
now he stands raised upon it as on a mountain top, far above 
the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his 
grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the 
infinite source of truth. ' 
