[204] _Histoire des Langues Sémitiques_, p. 467, Paris, 1855. [205] See Prichard, _The Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations_, edited by Latham, 1857. [206] “The sound of their voice resembles sighing.” “Their language resembles the clucking of a turkey.” Compare White, _Account of the regular gradation of Man_, p. 67, London, 1799. Appleyard, _The Kafir Language_, p. 3, 8vo, King William’s Town, 1850. Morel, _Traité des Dégénérescences de l’espèce humaine_, p. 42, Paris, 1857. “The Kafirs have adopted some of the inflexions in use among their neighbours, but as a simple ornament to their speech, without attributing any special signification to these ‘cluckings.’”--Is. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (_Correspondence_). [207] Compare Cabanis, _Rapports du Physique et du Moral_, 13th year, vol. ii, p. 201: Knox, _The Races of Men_, p. 82, London, 1850: Morel, _Dégénérescences de l’Espèce Humaine_, Paris, 1857. [208] See Beddom in _English Cyclopædia_: see, also, Vitruvius, book vi, ch. i. [209] _Rapports du Physique et du Moral_, 13th year, vol. ii, p. 294. [210] _Histoire Naturelle Générale_, vol. iii, p. 319, 1860. We do not here quote the facts relative to the Barbary and Corsican stag (_ibidem_, p. 407), since they rest only on the negative assertion of an old author. [211] “Partout de petits changements, nulle part de grands.” _Hist. Naturelle Générale_, vol. iii, p. 388. [212] _Recherches sur les Ossements Fossiles_, 4to, vol. i, p. 59, 1831. [213] _Histoire Naturelle Générale_, vol. iii, p. 389. [214] “What would be thought of a breeder who took Norman colts or Flemish calves to the high lands of the Alps and the Pyrenees, and then expected to see them reproduce (their training having been finished) all the pure characteristics of the original races?”--Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, _Histoire Naturelle Générale_, vol. iii, p. 307. [215] See Verneuil, _Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie_, February 2, 1860.--Bonté, _ibidem_, August 6, 1863. [216] [“A priest who has drunk wine shall migrate into a moth or a fly, feeding on ordure. He who steals the gold of a priest, shall pass a thousand times into the bodies of spiders. If a man shall steal honey, he shall be born a great stinging gnat; if oil, an oil-drinking beetle; if salt, a cicada; if a household utensil, an ichneumon fly” (_Institutes of Menu_, § 353). Thus, apparently with regard to _comparison_, the Hindú considers insects to be the lowest form of animal life, into which _moral_ criminals are to pass after death, according to their doctrine of metempsychosis.--EDITOR.]