It has been observed that the rudest savage is in a condition to show pity and loyalty to his own fellows. Thus, for example, in the winter of 1881–82, when some Fuegians were exhibited in Europe, one of them fell sick, and was cared for by his savage companions with affection, and even with a certain appearance of tenderness. But, as we have seen, anthropoids take care of and defend the members of their family in the same way, and display mutual dependence and loyalty; this has been especially noticed in the case of several orang-utans which have tended each other. Love for their young, and not rarely love for their mates expressed in the strongest manner, is, speaking comparatively, deeply rooted in the animal world. It is well known that both rude and civilized peoples are capable of showing unspeakable, and as it is erroneously termed, inhuman cruelty towards each other. These acts of cruelty, murder, and rapine are often the result of the inexorable logic of national characteristics, and are unhappily truly human, since nothing like them can be traced in the animal world. It would, for instance, be a grave mistake to compare a tiger with a bloodthirsty executioner of the Reign of Terror, since the former only satisfies his natural appetite in preying on other mammals. The atrocities of the trials for witchcraft, the indiscriminate slaughter committed by the negroes on the coast of Guinea, the sacrifice of human victims made by the Khonds, the dismemberment of living men by the Battas, find no parallel in the habits of animals in their savage state. And such a comparison is, above all, impossible in the case of anthropoids, which display no hostility towards men or other animals unless they are first attacked. In this respect the anthropoid ape stands on a higher plane than many men.