It has already been said that when we compare men and anthropoids, the profile of the coloured man presents a striking likeness to that of anthropoids. This is believed by the coloured people themselves, who, especially among negro races, regard the large apes as accursed individuals of their own species, as dumb and hairy men, and so on. It should, however, be noticed that anthropomorphism plays an important part in the religious life of rude peoples, and that it is comparatively easy for uncivilized men to place themselves on the same level as animals, while civilized races reject such ideas with self-conscious pride. I may add that civilized men are revolted by the proverbial ugliness of apes, and therefore reject with abhorrence any admission of actual relationship with them. We must, however, remember that men are by no means generally endowed with physical beauty, and especially with beauty of feature. Among all nations we find individuals whose ugliness is little inferior to that of anthropoids, and which sometimes even exceeds it. A claim to a widely diffused physical beauty may be made by the peoples of classical antiquity; by the Teutonic, Roumanian, and Slav races; by the Circassians, Armenians, Tartars, Turks, Senites, Berbers, Bedja; and by some of the Indians, Polynesians, American Indians, and negroes: but such attractions are rare among other peoples of the world, such as the Mongols, the majority of negroes, Papuans, Guaranis, and Malays. We have already shown that among some of the lower races it is impossible not to recognize a purely external and physical approximation to the simian type. Some men, again, altogether on psychical grounds, shrink from admitting any relationship between men and apes, since the mental organization of the former seems to them to be allied by no connecting-link with the anthropoids of which they think so meanly. Yet it should not be forgotten that the modes of living in degraded races differ little from those of anthropoids. I may here refer to what I have said of the Australian aborigines, whose brutal instincts demand our whole attention when we undertake such comparisons. A horde of Botocudos, mentioned by the intelligent observer Prince Maximilian of Neuwied,[131] and a village on the upper Yupurá, inhabited by the Mirenhas, and described by Martius,[132] left upon the travellers a grisly impression of their brutal degradation. This impression might be further strengthened if we could inspect a hutted encampment of the Obongo or the Doko.