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INTRODUCTION
Poor race of men says the sceptical spirit,
A fig for your ‘primal fall.’
Some graces ye may inherit,
But the trace of the ape is over them all.
Man’s progenitor was but an ape!
That is a delemma we cannot escape;
And women’s charms, only, we must own,
The developed beauties of the baboon!
The.........chimpanzee,
Transformed into Venus Ἀναδυομενη!
Thus write some modern sages;
Who have opened in man’s history several new pages. [Apud Moore.]
In 1859 Mr. Charles Darwin published a work
