CHAPTER II. 



COMPAEATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. 



ON one occasion, two monkeys were brought into the presence 

 of the orang described by Grant, about which we spoke in the 

 last chapter. They were led by a chain up to the animal, and 

 were threatened with a stick. " Daring the whole interview," 

 says our informant, " the grave commanding attitude and 

 bearing of the orang, compared to the levity and apparent 

 sense of inferiority of the monkeys, was very striking, and it 

 was impossible not to feel that he was a creature of a much 

 more elevated order and capacity.* 



" The animal from Sumatra is neither a man nor an ape," 

 said the crowd before the orang at the Museum. The commu- 

 nications which were then made to the Institute by Etienne 

 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire may be, one of these days, a new triumph 

 for him, the forerunner of a science which is not yet in exist- 

 ence, the study of intellect in animals, based upon observation 

 and experience ; as for instance, in the passage where he pro- 

 poses to submit the orang to a methodical education, in order 

 to study the modifications which would be caused by such an 

 alteration of method.f He who has discovered organic unity, 

 will have placed us in the way of a discovery not less important, 

 that of psychological unity .J A new science, which would 



* Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1828, vol. ix, p. 10. 



f Comptes Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences, vol. iii, p. 29. 



| We can compare this passage from the naturalist philosopher with the 

 other quotations we made farther back. "Females are extremely curious 

 about this spectacle (the fondness of a " mother" monkey for her young one), 

 and doubtless their attention is caused by discovering therein a true mani- 

 festation of the feelings they have themselves experienced as mothers ; they 

 are, above all things, astonished to recognise in these ardent attentions the 



