1 62 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



between us and that horizon must be that distance 

 from the centre ; but as we move our point of 

 view from place to place we move the circle with 

 us, and yet we cannot find the boundary-line 

 which marks this circle at any time. In a manner 

 not unlike this we pass from centre to centre of 

 the circles of life, and carry with us the circle, 

 so that at no one point do we ever appear to be 

 much closer to the horizon than we were at any 

 other point. 



The classification of genera and species is in a 

 great degree arbitrary, but much less so than are 

 these abstract characters of life and mind. There 

 is nowhere a line at which emotion stops and 

 thought begins ; there is nowhere a line at which 

 thought stops and expression begins ; there is no- 

 where a line at which expression stops and speech 

 begins. These blend into each other so that only 

 by comparing the extremes can we discern a dif- 

 ference. 



The tenets of metaphysics have heretofore 

 been made to harmonize with the tenets of theol- 

 ogy, and hence it is that we have learned to fol- 

 low the laws laid down by others, and not to 

 think for ourselves. It has been as much a her- 

 esy to gainsay the dogmas of science as those of 



