Chapter I

"Neural and hæmal arch," you say, "Tell out man's history to-day, Brain and mechanics have their way."

Is structure then sole test of kin? The ape from man, in form and skin, Is far as holiness from sin!

Emotion swears with hand uplift, That beauty is no mere makeshift, Significance divine its drift.

Beauty of sound, articulate speech, Lories and pyes might simians teach, These, therefore, nearer to man reach;

While nightingale and mocking-bird, Approach, in music's heavenly word, Closer than mammal e'er conferred.