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that, whether biologically considered, or psycho- 

 logically, or practically, the shoulders of the same 

 apes will be found, by even the best logicians, to 

 be an unsafe post for taking observations. We may 

 show them all deference, to soften the asperity of 

 their temper or of their finger nails in such a deli- 

 cate contingency; take account of their foibles, as 

 Mr. Darwin has done; soothe them with Darwinian 

 compliments, that they are so like man; forasmuch 

 as, according to Mr. Darwin, they are fond of tea 

 and coffee and sugar; and they do not disdain 

 tobacco, beer, and spirituous liquors! We may 

 compassionate them, that alas! they get headaches 

 in consequence of their indulgence therein, just as 

 their betters do, while — judicious creatures! — they 

 forego all such indulgence for the future, as some 

 of their betters do not. We may admit that the 

 good, sweet brutes get sick with pulmonary catarrh, 

 consumption, apoplexy, intestinal inflammation, 

 cataract of the eyes: yes, and that medicine can 

 cure them. What then? Mr. Darwin has tried all 

 this, and what has been the consequence? Simply 

 that it has been judged safer to get off the brutes' 

 backs and leave the apes alone. Vogt has told us 

 already (No. 138) that the lowest apes are too far 

 gone in evolution to submit to any such operation 

 now. Indeed, long ago mankind knew these things, 

 and took account of these analogies between the 

 brutes and man. Any casual observer can see 

 them for himself, or might readily suspect them. 



