ABSTRACT
Every man has certain ideas, tastes, and proclivities, and some of them are very pronounced and accentuated. He has a predilection for a particular hobby, a particular theory, or a particular line of thought. His object is to propagate these particular ideas, tastes, and proclivities, and to establish them if he can in himself and in others. Professor Huxley naturally lays great stress on the resemblances and parallels between the brain of a monkey and the brain of a man. However, the Court of humanity thought differently, and took it, as the saying is, “very well,” and they called on Mr Darwin the leading counsel for the monkey to open his client’s case. To be proved that the monkey is superior in intelligence or nearer man in brain power, than the ant, the elephant, the dog, or the parrot.
