Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-02-20
Men and Monkoy1l


ScyzNEiSIO LEcUUBE ~ GnAMn opKaA aeuAS,
Last evening, by special invitation, c, Chauncey
Burr, Esq., PFanident Of the Anthropologicel So
cIety, ct America, lSetured ct The Grand Opera
House on the subject, "Mon and Monkeys IAN an
eWeI 70 DaFwiL," the procseds FROM admission be-
ing Tor ahe beneat Of Home for old men an1 wo-
men. -Four large diagrams OF the monkay race Ond
three Of skulls were also exhibited to illustrated
his remarks The audience was not large but Il
number Of our scientific citizens were present.
Mr.. Burr said that the object Of his lecture was
70 instruct IL was over the gate OF the temple of
Minerva, that the inscription, %know thyselF' was
placed. No such idea is inscribed on any modern
telnpe OF science, There are in Europe, Anthrc-
polbgical Soeteties, IN london, Manchester,
Paris and Berlin, aud but one in the
United States OF America It is subject
which does not lie bsyond the T ,ach of the ordl-
raIy intellect. Probably not o ttousand men
could define DaR WinisM DArwiniSm sthe theory
what clled trai RI alton OF . Deciesor develop
Enellts OF one species ito another. Take Aock OF
sheep, for Instance. Darwinism sBpposes that ia
that ACoi there a ce.tlin number which are below
par in . physiOal POINT of view, which under a
change Of circumstances will die out while only
the most vigorous viii survive aiId adapt them
selves to the new circumstances. The giraffe, with
head ten or fiftsrn feet in the air, Is supposed,
originally to have had neck no longer than any
other animal but that II had grown SO highin con-.
sequence OF feeding upon the branches or trees.
higher thnn itself and so millions of wears per
haps, developed the long neck. That is an insane
absurdity.
There are geological zones where all the ami
mails and plants are peculiar to their respective
zone When Columbus came to America, lie
found animals the like of which had never been
seen In Europe of similar genus but distinct
species.
The Esquimau is feet 5 inches high and has a
blue or blush green complexion and has quite a
different system from u.s. We would freeze up,
in bis zone because our vital chemistry is different
from his.
The Indian is distinct entire from any type of
man that existed in Asia. In the middle ages. al
most all anatomical knowledge was obtained from
the body of the upe. The natives of Barneo
called their apes, the 'old man of the woods p
There are various species of ape which differ as
widely from each other as from man. The more
the ape developes the further he is from the hu-
man type. The gorille Is an ape of Southern,
Africa and has only half the brain of a white
man The gorilla is read of eight hundred years
before Christ. They were called "hairy men,
The Chimpauzees is also q nativeo of Corilla's conn
try. Then there is the AnthrOpoides or Taillcss
ape. Ihe substrata OF the earths crust can be
traced one after another, but the great gap be
tween man and the ape cannot be filled
The North Druids are represented as IA wing
been 'savages without intellect" They were In
fact more civilized than the invading Romans who
cong uered them. The Chinese TODAY cali AZ har
barIans. The Romans found the rivers of Eng
land locked with iron chains they saw colleges
where 1t took seven years 10 graduate-now. in
this country, we graduate in four years. In read
ing C@sars Commentaries, we learn that the ALL
clients had their professors of sciences their poets
and astronomers. To-day, if We wish TO stady
poetry, we SO back to the days of Homer; il we
want to improve in the oratory we have to 90
back three hundreds years before the christian
ere, to cid Demosthenes.
The capacity OF q race never gets below or above
itself In New York city as was lately remarked
that seventy or eighty of the most educated men
there, had come up out OF rags
The bonV system is different in the races of
men. There are thirteen and q half per cent
more OF calcareOus salts in the negroes bones than
In the caucashian's. The black skin of the negro
Is best adapted TO the tropical zone This might
be illustrated by putting two tsapots in the sun
light one blackened with lamp black and the 9th
er polished and Tie black one viii be found cooler
than the other. The negro's skin is full of little
cups OF pelucd water whose Office is to throw of
the solar rays as the grass does when the der is
on IT. The negro's skull is thicker than fhe
white mans. The WOOL which is very different
species OF hair from ours Is imperVious To solar
rays The conVolutions OF the nsSrO's brain are
less than ours
In Africa where the heat Is 100 degrees and ND
wards. the negro, without a cover on his head
goes TO sleep with the sun shining on him in fuli
Ione where's awhlteman similarly placed would
never get up. The negro enjoys such a sleep.
because he is In his true zone 1t is pity he was
adapted % this zone The African aonr.5es a1G he
sonth cetalh tlne, n9Ith Of IL, he cannot live
at all; II IN the poplar region he would freeze mn.
500 600 or 100000 of our have died in irving
to civilize Africa. The HottentOts have a him9
on their back ~ -
The Australians leg is only half the size OF
ours. Darwinism Is like tile Ostrich which when
pursued by the hunter, hides jts head in the |
leaves.
Mr.. Burr, hoped his lectures would not only
8 ct people up TO looking at their Bibles but to |
reading works on the sciences 8