Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Helps was also affected by the banking panic of 1866 caused by the failure of Overend Gurney and Company. It had invested heavily in long-term railway stocks rather than holding cash reserves. A long essay on slavery in the first series of Friends in Council was subsequently elaborated into a work in two volumes publiArthur Helpsd in 1848 and 1852 called The Conquerors of the New World and their Bondsmen.

The brickworks went into liquidation in 1867 and Helps had to sell the Vernon Hill estate. L. In retaliation for the bombardment of Copenhagen the Danish government had impounded British goods in warehouses and merchant ships with their cargoes.