Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 24 CHAPTER II. COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY. On one occasion, two monkeys were brought into the presence of the orang described by Grant, about which we spoke in the last chapter. They were led by a chain up to the animal, and were threatened with a stick. " During the whole interview," says our informant, " the grave commanding attitude and bearing of the orang, compared to the levity and apparent sense of inferiority of the monkeys, was very striking, and it was impossible not to feel that he was a creature of a much more elevated order and capacity. " The animal from Sumatra is neither a man nor an ape," said the crowd before the orang at the Museum. The communications which were then made to the Institute by Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire may be, one of these days, a new triumph for him, the forerunner of a science which is not yet in existence,—the study of intellect in animals, based upon observation and experience; as for instance, in the passage where he proposes to submit the orang to a methodical education, in order to study the modifications which would be caused by such an alteration of method, f He who has discovered organic unity, will have placed us in the way of a discovery not less important, that of psychological unity. J A new science, which wouldonly date from the time of the reaction against Cartesian ideas, —a science still without a name, merely touched upon even by great minds which have the inestimable privilege of understanding everything; it has never been studied,—never thoroughly investigated,—never submitted to all our means of information. We should call it Comparative Psychology. Edinburgh Journal of Science, 1828, vol. ix, p. 10. ) Compies Rendus de I'Academie des Sciences, vol. iii, p. 29. I We can compare this passage from the nat...