[29] “If I am not mistaken,” says M. de Quatrefages, “there is in this result, independently of the scientific consequences which may proceed from it, a something which responds to our most noble aspirations. Man confers upon himself dominion _of his own will_; he loves to proclaim himself legitimate sovereign of all things on the surface of this globe; and, in fact, no creature will dare to dispute with him an empire which, day by day, extends and increases. Well! is it not satisfactory to behold _anthropological characteristics_ sanction and ennoble this empire by placing by the side of the _right_, which springs from intellectual superiority, the notion of _duty_, which arises from morality and religion?” (_Unité de l’Espèce Humaine_, p. 33.) [30] Courtet de l’Isle has already made this remark. (_Tableau Ethnographique du Genre Humain_, 1849, p. 8.) [31] See the _Voyage de l’Isabelle_; also Desmoulins, _Histoire Naturelle des Races Humaines_, 1826, p. 276. [32] Cirripeds, tortoises, ornithodelphi, and generally speaking, the extreme representatives of the divisions of each natural classification. [33] _Mémoire sur les Tasmaniens, sur les Alfourous, et sur les Australiens_, in the _Annales des Sciences Naturelles_, 1827, vol. x, p. 155. [34] Hale, _Natives of Australia_, etc. See _American Journal of Science_, second series, vol. i, p. 302, May 1846; extract from the account of C. Wilkes’ Expedition: _Narrative of the U. S. Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842_, vol. vi, “Ethnography and Philology.” [35] _Voyage de l’Astrolabe: Zoologie_, vol. i, p. 43. [36] Even after the assertions of M. de Quatrefages in the _Unité des Races Humaines_, p. 162, and following, we have not thought ourselves justified in changing our opinions on the subject of the Australians, which have lately been confirmed at the Anthropological Society; a Mr. O’Rourke, an eyewitness, having answered M. de Quatrefages (_Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie_, 21 June, 1860). [37] J. Ross, _Narrative of a Second Voyage_, etc., 1835, p. 448. [38] J. Ross, _Narrative of a Second Voyage_, p. 490. [39] See Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, _Comptes Rendus_, vol. v, p. 42. [We should very much like to know at what period our author imagines this to have been the case, and whether he considers that these apes were the “men of the day.”--EDITOR.] [40] “Memorandum on an Unknown Forest Race,” etc., _Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal_, 1855, vol. xxiv, p. 207.