CHAPTER XXXVI. 



Mammalia (Quadrupeds). 

 Continued. 



It has been a question among zoologists whether or not 

 Man ought to be considered as an animal, and to take his 

 place in the System of Nature with a generic and specific 

 name. Some have decided in the affirmative, as Liunseus, 

 who places Homo sapiens at the head of his Primates, and 

 Cuvier, who creates an order, " Bimanes" for the express 

 reception of the human species. Others, as Aristotle, Ray, 

 and Swainson, exclude him from their systems, and refuse 

 •to assign him a zoological place. The grounds of this ex- 

 clusion are tersely expressed by the present Archhishop of 

 Canterbury, in the following words : " There is nothing 

 philosophical in the comparison of a being possessed ofim- 

 proveable reason with one that is governed by natural 

 instinct, because there is no just affinity between the talents 

 which are compared."* 



We incline to think, however, that both these hypo- 

 theses are true. Man, in regard to his body and soul, is 

 an animal, and is to be compared with other animals ; — 

 he is the highest form in the highest Class ; while it is in 



* " Eecoi'Js of Creation." i. 13. 



