Indigenous Races of the Earth

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G4. EXPLANATIONS OF MONf"EY-'JlART. FINAL ODSERV.A.'£IONS. ThuA, I think, w have ascertained that, in Continental Asia, Africa and Am rica., -1 avitw aside Madao·as ~Ll'-110 Jess than amidst the thousand islands of the Indiau Archipelago, there arc scatt t' d immcns numbers, and many varieties, of Moul cys; that, in some places, <li florcnt "species" occupy contiguous habitats, whilst their BI ccific aualoO'ucs arc only met with at very remote distan s ; that, 110 two tra ·ts f mountain ot· valley, hardly two islands, pos css the sam "species" of Mou key; in short, no spot within tho T1·opical r.oncs, however circumscribed in area, which uocs not, if it has any n,t all, possess its own simi a or sim-iw; and, finally, that such " species" is rarely to be found anywhere else. 'l'his (if rccoll ctiou serves) is 1he snbstaHcc of what I J arncd fl'Om Prof. Agassiz's memorable Gth lcctnr , dcliv red at Mobile. Now, docs any naturali t claim that each ." species" of monl-cy was not c1'eated within the particular proviuce, zone, focus, or c ntro, wh ro w find it? Will any naturalist hazard a d nial that such monkeys were therein created, not in single pair, but in "nations" ? On ascending to Man, viewed as the "sole represe ntative of his order," 11ftcr tal ing the prcccuing survey of h.is more or loss anthror o­mo! ·phous pt:ecursors,-wheth r in relative palroontological epochas, ot· m rcspcctlvc st.'ttion at a triv 11linkofthc spintl •hain of bcinO's­i~; it, I would inquire, by accid nt that tho highest approxim11tions to tho lmman form dwell closely along tho Equinoxial line almost in antipodean juxtaposition,-viz., tbc rod orang-utans, witl: black and brown giubons, in Malayano,, and the black O'Orillas and chimpanzees in Af1·i ·a? b And?~~; it. again tht·ough accident, I ask, that tho converso of this propos1t10ll JS trnc, viz: that tho lowe t .£orms of mankind in Africa as. well as th~ lowest forms of manhud in Malayana, v g tat , t~ th1s day, pt·ccJscly where tho highest, most anthropoid, typos of tho monl ·cy "speci s" respectively reside? Others may believe in" accident." I do not,-whcrc natnre mani­fests. to my r~ason such harmonics in tho action of Ct· aiivo Power. ~ t1ll, .notwlths:anding my own belief in a CREATOR, th r £u·c ~n.'h. Olin~ ~,tlungs wbi~h tho brothers liuml>ol<lt suspected and l CJ,CCt. d-a~ myths, ~ctwn, anu pretended tradit-ion." All animals, M .tn :n?lnstve,. arc satd to have spr au thcmsel ves vcr this plan t's supcrhcws, dunng tho last (2348-1857) 4205 years, dating from the F. X PLAN AT I 0 N S 0 F M 0 N K~~~r "~~{ .A' RT. QiO p riotl wl1 n Nonh's Ark O'Toundcd upOlj)V!o~ nt Ararat, in Armenia, whose cograplJi a! position and n.ltitn<l·e . .a:;o w ll k nowf).G21 By way of archroological expcrim nt, ' t1'1der tlir gon )·ally'.ac~ 1Jted hypotheAis that tho parents of all these simim <1 scend d, peripateti­cally alo11g that mountain, and genealogically from that "singl pair," what species of monkey now extant is the one which is most likely to sntif! fY tl10 co nditions reqnired? V1·emi r;ing tl1at su ·han unique conp]c1J22 mue~t have travell ed clown that mountain ·with amazing cclc1·ity,GZJ in or<let· to attain warm I' latitudes, and in quef!t of food and a homo,- it is only tl1 Cyno­cephalus Ilamad1·yas 021 that fulfilA every nee sAary r qnircm nt. His present habitat-Arabia, and perhaps P rsia-iA the n m·est in 0' o­g raphi cnl approximation to Monnt Ararat; and we know thnt he lived Ll! rea bon tA, n ar Mesopotamia, as far back as n. c. 885; hocuusc his fligy is sc nlpturcd on the Obelisk of Nimrood,625 assign d by Rawlinson to that (late, 1mclcr thor ign of JEuu.620 I p1·opose, Ll 10r - for e, that a malo and female "pair" of tho "species" OynocPpltalus Hantad1·yas [No. 27] ho hencc rol"\varc1 recognized. as the nntlu·opoicl analog11 s of " N al1,, l1 m, 1 fam a ncl ,Jap}ICth ;"and that i.t muHt be from these two individuals that, owing to transplantation, togetlt'l' with tho ombi.ncd action of alim nt ancl climate, the 54 monkeys reprcf!ont d on our chart have originated. It is, notwithstandi11 g, sniii. ·icnily strang , Ll1 at, under such cit·cnmAtanccs, this "pl'imorclial organic type" of monkey Ahould have so highly improved in uin a and in Malayana as to become Gor·illas an<l Oltimpanzees, Or·angs and G-ibbons; wlt reaR, on the contrary, the descendants of ''.A dam and Eve" lmv •, i11 tbc same localiti es, actnally deteriorated into tho most degraded and ahj ct forms of humauity. G~ l Sco ttbovo, Clmptor V, pp. 572-3. o2~ Tho Kol'uh t, ~tpoH [supra, V, note 311], 11ro not mentioned in ITobrow writing8 unt.il tho r ecent 11111nipul n~io n of Ki11(}8 ruul Ohrouicles by tho l~Hdmi o school. Doi ng al wr~ys « un­cloltn" to Uoo '181'11 li tes 1111d 1\lussulnlftn s, howovor dea1· to tho Br~thrntm s, monkeys must have lJCCil Lttkcu into tho Ark "two ~tnt! two" (Genesis, Vll, IJ); and not "by sovons" (ibid., V('l'HO 2). 02a 'J'h cy 111'0 cclobt·~ttcd fo1· thoit· agility, and m·o ~ho only " spocios" trained in tho Lovont for gytn nltstic 11nd drtncing exhibitions. o« SupNt sub ·voce:- AINBWOtt'l'll (Ucscarcltes irt Assyn'a, B abylonia and Oltaldroa, Lond on, Svo, 18~H, p. 37) observes, "'l'ho monkey, whoso countr·y begins 11bout 38° N. lrtt., is un­knowll in AsHyt·irt fll1(ll1itby loni tt; but it is not co rlltin if it is not'"' ox tinct rtninntl, for on ol.Jlo II •ln·ow schol11r hits slrttcrl to me, thrtt tho cloloful crcnttu·rA which 111'0 pt·op hcti c1tlly 11nnouuco<l ns tc111tnlinp; fttll on l31thylon, ought to be rend 1w monkeys ot· b11boons." o~~ LAYAill)'s folio Jlfommten/.!, 1810; nnd his Ninrveli and its Remains, 1848; contuin accuro.to copios of thiH mouun1 ont. For tho archtuology of vnrious monkeys, soo Dkl llLAH~­vu, I.I•: (Ostlfog1'aphie, pp. 28-4ll), 11nd GEJWA!S (op. cit., pp. 107-8). ooo :J.'ypea of .Ala~tlcind, pp. 701-2.