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THE LIVING WORLD. 
have been detected keeping the flies off from their sleeping yonng. So, too, 
their social attachments can be illustrated by the fact that fifty monkeys pur¬ 
sued a hunter who had killed one of their companions, and scolded and plead 
until he allowed them to carry back the lifeless body. Towards each other they 
are sympathetic and most attentive and gentle in their ministrations to the 
sick. On one occasion at least, when a monkey was bitten by an ill-natured 
baboon, it was immediately coddled by a monkey of a wholly different species. 
One of two monkeys on shipboard fell overboard, when the other first held out 
its hand, and finding this ineffective caught up a rope and threw one end of it 
to his drowning campanion. A hunter having fired into a band of monkeys to 
still their noisy chattering, fatally wounded one of their number, which at once 
descended to the ground, and holding its hands went directly to the hunter, as 
by its reproachful looks to 
induce him to repair inju¬ 
ries so unprovoked. Un¬ 
satisfied curiosity is very 
trying to the monkey. One of 
them failing to discover any¬ 
thing behind a mirror into 
which it was looking, dashed 
it to pieces and then repeated 
the action with each fragment 
large enough to renew his cu* 
riosit } 7 and re-awaken his an¬ 
ger. A monkey which had an 
ulcerated tooth refused to 
take an anaesthetic but cheer¬ 
fully submitted to the den¬ 
tistry. Many species of mon¬ 
keys manifest the greatest 
interest in mechanical de¬ 
vices, and much skill in the 
application of their prin¬ 
ciples. They have, when 
in confinement, shown an 
acquaintance with the prin¬ 
ciple of the lever, screw and 
wedge. 
By the many manifestations of an intelligence certainly superior to that 
of other animals, no less than the human appearance which many of the higher 
primates exhibit, we have come to regard the monkey family as next to our 
own, though there is a gulf between the two infinitely wider than that which 
separates the other orders of animal life. For this reason, in following the 
ascending series of animate creation, we are compelled now to halt for want of 
a bridge over which to pass to another sequential order. Man stands alone, iso¬ 
lated from all other species, and “The Story of Man” is therefore reserved for 
a work which I have prepared with much care, to prove that, like others of 
God’s creatures, since his fall he has developed from a very low condition to 
the attainment of such intellectual powers ns now distinguish him. 
