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LIFE, IN ITS HIGHER FORMS. 
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 Linmeus, 
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 of im- 
proveable reason with one that is governed by natural 
instinct, because there is no just affinity between the talents 
which are compared.”* 
Wo 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 
* “ Records of Creation,” i. 13. 
