text:  After having humbled our pride according to this philosopher's bidding and taught ourselves to look upon the ape with due feelings of filial respect--after having acknowledged some sturdy baboon for our only Adam and some malicious monkey for our sweet mother Eve--after having brought ourselves to see in the lower animals the same mental and moral faculties which we boast of and to confess that the same psychology applies to both with a slight modification in our theory of the origin of ideas--after having practised all this condescension to be threatened with complete dethronement from our high place in the world!--to be told that we too shall have to obey a master who may govern us as man governs the horse! What a millennium to look forward to! "Is our race but the initial of the grand crowning type? Are there yet to be species superior to us in organization purer in feeling more powerful in device and art and _who shall take a rule over us_? There is in this nothing improbable on other grounds