THE LIVING WORLD. 
670 
The Anthropoids are marked by greater development of the posterior lobe 
of the brain; by bony partitions 
between the facial orbits and tem¬ 
poral cavities; by a human form, 
and by pectoral mammae, always 
two in number. Much unneces¬ 
sary irritation and uneasiness has 
been caused by the rash specula¬ 
tions and the unsupported inferences 
of men writing about natural his¬ 
tory, rather than confining them¬ 
selves, like the most eminent sci¬ 
entists, to gathering data and 
refraining strictly from analogical 
reasoning. Scientists, such as 
Saint George Mivart and Darwin, 
find ample employment for their 
abilities in studying nature and 
endeavoring to understand her 
scrolls, instead of treating these 
as palimpsests for their own 
glosses. In the matter of structure, 
as well as in that of intelligence, 
there is a wider gulf between 
the anthropoid and man, than 
between the various classes of the rest of the animal world, so that the study 
of the monkey tribe is quite as 
likely to lead away from “ the 
missing link” as to hold out 
any promise of finding it. 
Still, with reference to the 
succession of forms becoming 
more highly organized as the 
earth became fitted for their su¬ 
premacy, the anthropoids make 
a fitting peroration to the story 
of Genetic development. The 
lowest forms of the anthropoids 
—the marmosets —are found, as 
would be expected by such of 
our readers as have accepted 
our own conclusions, amidst the 
rank luxuriance of vegetable life 
which prevails in tropical 
America. We cannot do better 
than to cite, as we have done in 
other of our books, Sir Thomas 
Buckle’s characterization of the 
Brazilian forests, and of similar riotness of vegetable life in other lands and 
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