THE 
AMERICAN NATURALIST. 
VoL. xvii. — FEBRUARY, 1883. — No. 2. 
THE KINDRED OF MAN. 
BY ARTHUR ERWIN BROWN. 
Me A. R. Wallace once called attention to the similarity in 
color existing between the orang and chimpanzee and the 
human natives of their respective countries. It would indeed 
seem as if but half the truth had-been told, and that the compari- 
son might be carried also into the region of mind; the quick, 
vivacious chimpanzee partaking of.the mercurial disposition of 
negro races, while the apathetic, slow orang would pass for a dis- 
ciple of the sullen fatalism of the Malay. Such, at least, was the 
impression left by careful observation of several specimens of 
each species which have been exhibited in the Philadelphia Zóö- 
logical Garden. : 
A curious study are the moral qualities of the chimpanzee— 
for he has morals—not altogether such as would serve for the 
ordering of a human community, but very well adapted, seeming- 
ly, for his own needs. Watching them closely, in all their moods, 
all their passions, it was impossible’to avoid the feeling that here 
_ Was man in his primitive stage of moral development—“ nature’s 
ground plan” only—self-love predominant, the brute mainly, ` 
with but an occasional flash of the possibilities which the hand 
of nature was yet to shape. 
“Adam” and “ Eve” were both young, probably not more 
than three or four years old, and not half grown, as the chim- 
panzee is believed to require some twelve or fifteen years for the 
completion of that stage of existence. They were about the same 
Size—perhaps they were twins—they had no family Bible to 
settle the question, but the extraordinary likeness between them 
was strongly in favor of the supposition; indeed, if Adam had 
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