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Show Itiu;nmii I iprrlmanta. Tliero la a clentiJie wrson In tin? land Jtut at prowiit who a?Nirantiy peuU his whole timo in lumrtng newly biffn liftnU to a branch of a tree, or rather it U the Infants who hang thtm soiree, in consequence of the sdohtlflc Iranuaencemrsgcment nnladvlrtf. The rone li Is ptit (n nn infant's hands, and H then lirted Into tlto air when it is fonn 1 that the infant will retain Its hoi t nn I remain susppuded by Its lands for fully two minutes, Tbo object of this rrfurmsuce is to show that man Is b seen led from the monkey. It Is tho scientific penwn's opinion that if on in rant lnstlm tlvely hangs by its hands from a branch e f ntrralt is because it has Inh-rttM a foil dm for thnt athletic pirt from its slmluii uncostnni. This Is nil very will; but when the sclf-ntlflo person's practice come to the curs of tho mothers of tho Infants with whom tho experiment hue Imem made it is probablo that lie will somewhat rtiHUgohis opinion as to tho descent of man and will adopt the view that man h is imi ilereloieJ, on his iiiotlierN hM, frotn a thrashing macblno of ctnnplhntetl cout ruction nn 1 tromeud ius itreugtli, Paris HomlL |
