, 1877-10-20
How man ~ g.ilSe tiie Monkey
Science Not in Conflict with
kscli ion.

Professor Cunning delivered the sixth
oT his course of scientific lectures Friday
night, at Dushawny Hall, to II large au-
dience.
H. commenced by saying that in an
Eastern fable we read that Two tribes OF
tarirs--the S0ols and Assoors--oncc sat
on opposite shores ot the sea OF NV strry,
churnlng 1t in cndeavors 10 discover the
Amrettn, or secret OF life. In these days,
however, men, not genii, sit, not on the
sea 0t mystery, but on tic sen OF thought.
And it is well that men, like the fairies,
churn from opposite sides in their TT.
tcnpts to solve the problems OF life, tor n
sta@nant scn is pcStiIeutial sea, and II
world OF solved problems wouM be- II
world of mental death.
MAN UNFuLDED.
1t is IL fact ot profound interest that in
unfolding the body ot man, we travel
through all the phases or torn,s Of lile
inferior to those of man. Nature, said
the speaker, geomctriZcs. To prove this
he drew on the blackboard three circles,
the sides of which connected with aud
overlapped each other. These, he said,
represented the first form of II brain.
Upon these he built domcs and lobes,
representing the brain AS found in birds,
reptiles and the lower mammals, until it
reached as near perfection us possible in
the brain of man.
SIMILARITY OF MANS BRAIN TO THAT OF
THE MONKEY.
Toward the end of this journey and
before the brain OF man stands out alone,
he is compuioncd by the orang,outang,
chimpan2rc and gorilla. But while the
brain of the highest order OF man is more
complicated than that of the monkey, is
not rs much complicated rs the brain OF
the liottcntot. Next we come to the
brain OF the native Australian, which is
less complicated than that of the Hotten.
tot. This is as low Ms we find it in man,
and in comparing the native Australian
with the gorilla, we find many points OF
similarity. We ascertain that the Aus
.alan will throw stones ut us which the
gorilla will also do, and the Australian
will beat US with clubs, as the gorilla
will. Taking them ON the moral side We
also find simlitude. The Australian will
say to himself, II take another mans
boomerang, that's right; another mhn
tnkes my boomerang, that's wrong"
The gorilla argues in. much the same
manner.
REASONING POWER OF THE MONKEY.
Bramm, the German scientist, keeps a
number OF monkeys, which he sometimes
feeds with sugar, wrapped in paper. He
one day placed wasp in the paper
along with the sugar. One of the mon
keys took the parcel as usual and, on
opening it the wasp came out and stung
him. After that, if that man or any
other man offered that monkey or any
oftbose monkeys II piece ofsagar wrapped
in paper, the monkey would be careful to
examine it closely before lie opened it,
to discover whether or no it contained
wasp. The monkey mast have reasoned
with himself and have come to the con-
cluson that if Brumm or any other man
placed wasp in one piece Of paper be-
before giving IL to a monkey, he would
place another wasp in another piece OF
paper before giving 1t to another mon
key, and therefore he gave the other
monkeys to understand that it would be
well to distrust any man who gave them
sugar done up in pieces OF paper. The
fact that this monkey reasoned, and by
some means communicated his conclusion
to the other monkey, led some scientists
to infer that mans sole title to superiori-
ty over the monkey was the power OF ar
ticulate speech.
OTHER POINTS OF SIMILARITY.
One hundred years ago scientists based
mans rank on the bony structure of the
foot, but it has been established that mans
hand is similar In structure to the mon.
keys foot, except in the mere matter ol
length. Then Richard Owen came tor
ward with the the theory that it was IN
the formation OF brain that man differed,
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