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Show 56 human ttesh instead of that of oxen or sheep. For they oat the enemies whom they take in battle. They fatten, slay and devour their slaves also, unless they think they shall get a good price for them ; and, moreover, sometimes for weariness of life or desire of glory (for they think it a great thing and tho sign of a generous soul to despise life), or for love of their rnlcrs, offer themselves up for foou." '' There are indeed many cannibals, as in tho Eastern Indies and in Brazil and elsewhere, but none such as these, since the others only cat their enemies, but these their own blood relations." The careful illustrators of Pigafetta have dono their be t to enable the reader to realize this account of tho 'Anziques,' and the unexampled butcher's shop represented in fig. 12, is a facsimile of part of their Plato XII. M. Du Chaillu's account of the Fans accords mo t singularly w1th what I,.,opoz here nal'l'ates of the Anziques. He speaks of their small crossbows and little arrows, of their axes and knives, "ingeniously ·heathed in snake skins." "They tattoo themselves more than any other tribes I have met north of the eqnator.'' And all the world knows what M. Du Chaillu says of their cannibalism-" l>resently we passed a woman who solved all doubt. She bore with her a piece of the thigh of a human body, just as we should go to market and carry thence a roast or steak." M. Du Chaillu's artist cannot generally boaccused of any want of courage in embodying tho statements of his author, and it is to be regretted that, with so good an excuse, he has not furnished us with a fitting companion to the sketch of the brothers De Bry. II.-ON THE RELATIONS OF MAN TO THE LOWER ANIMALS. Multis videri poterit, majorcm esse differentiam Simiro ot IIominis, quam dici et noctis ; vernm tamen hi, comparatione in tituta inter summos Europro Heroes et IIottontottos ad Caput bomc spei dcgentcs, difficillime sibi persuadobunt, has eosdem habere natales ; vel si virginom nobilem aulicam, maximo comtam et humanissimam, confcrre vellent cum homine sylvestri et sibi relieto, vix augurari pos ·ent, hunc et illam ejus<lem esse speciei.-Li·nnai Amamitates Acad. "Antltropomm'Pha." THE question of questions for n1ankind-the problem which underlies all others, and is more deeply interesting than any other-is the ascertainment of the place which Man occupies in nature and of his relations to the universe of things. Whence our race has come; what are the limits of our power over nature, and of nature's power over us ; to what goal we are tending; are the problems which present themselves anew and with undiminished interest to every man born into the world. Most of us, shrinking from the difficulties and dangers which beset the seeker after original answers to these riddles, are contented to ignore them altogether, or to smother the investigating spirit under the featherbed of respected and respectable tradition. :But, in every age, one or tw~ restless spirits, blessed with that constructive genius, winch can only build on a secure foundation, or cursed with the mere spirit of scepticism, are unable to follow in the well-worn and comfortable track of their forefathers and conte~ poraries, and unmindful of thorns and stumbling-blocks, strike out into paths of their own. The sceptics end in the infidelity which asserts the problem to be insoluble or in the atheism which denies the existence of any orderl; progress |