286 BEASTS AND MEN 
young Englishman, very efficient at his work ; and it is his 
business to carry forward the education of the animals to 
the highest possible extent. The conviction has gradually 
An egg, please, uncle dear! 
strengthened within me that anthropoid apes may, by a 
systematic education from their earliest youth, be accustomed 
to live just like human beings. And I intend to proceed with 
my experiments aiming at the realisation of this idea.  Inti- 
mate association with human beings is the proper method of 
