concept
Gypsy menagerie shows
Gypsies
also: Цыганы
A reference to the well-known 19th-century spectacle of trained-animal (sometimes trained-monkey) shows led through towns by Roma performers, invoked by the narrator as supposed proof against human descent from apes.
Reading notes
- A Letter to a Learned Neighbor §3 Gypsies
A reference to the well-known 19th-century spectacle of trained-animal (and sometimes trained-monkey) shows led through towns by Roma performers; the narrator invokes it as supposed proof against human descent from apes.