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and very bold statements have been based on the 

 failure of these efforts. 



Such ingenuity is, however, misdirected, and such 

 efforts predestined to fail ; for if what we have said 

 above as to the real nature of links be true, it 

 follows that the links between man and monkey will 

 most certainly not be directly intermediate forms, 

 any more than the link between the horse and 

 donkey is a mule. From time to time we are 

 provided with such alleged direct links, and it is a 

 source of very legitimate amusement to a Darwinian 

 to note the extreme anxiety people always show to 

 prove that these waifs are really monkeys and not 

 men, and the readiness with which they are able to 

 accomplish this to their own satisfaction. And yet 

 in all cases they have proved to be really human 

 beings after all. Thus, of late years we have had a 

 couple of idiot children spoken of as Aztecs, and a 

 Siamese child called Krao, who differed from the 

 rest of the family in nothing except unusual hairi- 

 ness ; not to mention other celebrities, all of whom 

 were pronounced positively to be monkeys on their 

 first appearance. Indeed, the only conclusion to be 

 drawn from such cases, appears to be how very easy 

 it is to persuade people to believe that human beings 

 are monkeys'. 



Persistent Types. 



Persistent Types, a group of cases which we have 

 already considered,* have been brought forward 



* See page 58. 



