GORILLAS AND CHIMPANZEES 



CHAPTER I 



MAN AND APE COMPARED 



Monkeys have always been a subject of idle interest 

 to old and young ; but they have usually served to 

 amuse the masses more than to instruct them, until 

 within recent years. 



Now that science has brought them within the 

 field of careful research, and made them an object 

 of serious study, it has invested them with a certain 

 dignity in the esteem of mankind, and imparted to 

 them a new aspect among animals. 



There is no other creature that so charms and 

 fascinates the beholder as do these little effigies of 

 the human race. The simple and the wise are alike 

 impressed with their human look and manner ; 

 children and patriarchs with equal delight watch 

 them with surprise ; but now that the search-light 

 of science is being thrown into every nook and 

 crevice of nature, human interest in them is 

 multiplied many fold, while the savants of all 



