CLASS MAMMALIA. 



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with the power of speech ; and that is cosmopolitan, 

 readily adapting himself to extremes of heat and cold, 

 and making his home in all parts of the globe. (See 

 Fig. -180.) 



There are intellectual and moral features, moreover, 

 which place man high above all other animals. The 



FIG. 480. 



Skeletons of Orang, Chimpanzee, and Man. 



scope of his mind and the possibilities of an inmmi-tnl 

 soul, mark the rank of a being who is alone declared to 

 have been created "in the image of God." 



Common Origin of Man. While in the human race 

 there is but a single species, zoologists are accustomed 

 to speak of several very distinctly-marked varieties. In 

 respect to the dividing lines of the commonly-enumerated 



