Lapham's Quarterly

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception 

In the 17th century, scientists thought chimpanzees walked upright (with canes!) and troglodytes, a non-human type of human, were the Holy Grail of species research.

The Curious Case of the London Troglodyte, today on Roundtable: http://bit.ly/14teEQN