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Part I. 
differences between tlie men of distinct races, is so 
notorious that not a word need here be said. So it 
is with the lower animals, as has been illustrated by 
a few examples in the last chapter. All who have had 
charge of menageries admit this fact, and we see it 
plainly in our dogs and other domestic animals. Brehm 
especially insists that each individual monkey of those 
which he kept under confinement in Africa had its own 
peculiar disposition and temper : he mentions one baboon 
remarkable for its high intelligence ; and the keepers 
in the Zoological Gardens pointed out to me a monkey, 
belonging to the New World division, equally remark- 
able for intelligence. Rengger, also, insists on the di- 
versity in the various mental characters of the monkeys 
of the same species which he kept in Paraguay ; and 
this diversity, as he adds, is partly innate, and partly 
the result of the manner in which they have been 
treated or educated . 6 * 8 
I have elsewhere 9 so fully discussed the subject of 
Inheritance that I need here add hardly anything. A 
greater number of facts have been collected with respect 
to the transmission of the most trifling, as well as of the 
most important characters in man than in any of the 
lower animals ; though the facts are copious enough 
with respect to the latter. So in regard to mental 
qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, 
horses, and other domestic animals. Besides special 
tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and 
good temper, &c., are certainly transmitted. With man 
we see similar facts in almost every family ; and we 
6 Brehm, 1 Thierleben,’ B. i. s. 58, 87. Kengger, ‘ Saugethiere von 
Paraguay,’ s. 57. 
u ' Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,’ vol. n* 
chap. xii. 
