They will remain either the Ishmaels or the Sloths of Society.
"In-Darkest-England-and-the-Way-Out"
Booth, William
The Sloths gave reproachful glances at us for disturbing them, and then began to move away at a speed which an active sailor running up the rigging of a ship could scarcely equal.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston
We might therefore, by parity of reasoning, have anticipated that the creative power, adapting the new types to the new combination of organic and inorganic conditions of a given region, such as its soil, climate, and inhabitants, would introduce new modifications of the old types-marsupials, for example, in Australia, new Sloths and armadilloes in South America, new heaths at the Cape, new roses in the northern and new calceolarias in the southern hemisphere.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell