Note 24 — Chapter I
Hugh J. C. Beavan translation
M. de Quatrefages admits a sidereal kingdom; and such a thesis seems to us a very difficult one to sustain, after the experiments of Bunsen and Kirchoff on the chemical composition of the stars. M. de Quatrefages admits also a human kingdom; but admitting that animals think, he makes morality and religion characteristics of this kingdom. Unité de l’Espèce Humaine, 1861, p. 30. We shall have occasion to revert again to these two points. See Bert., Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie, August 7, 1862.