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teeth, the thickness of the lips, the projection 

 of the cheek-bones, the position of the eyes, 

 the characteristic hair, or wool, afford as con- 

 stant differences as those by which the chim- 

 panzees, orangs, and gibbons are separated 

 into distinct genera ; and their respective spe- 

 cies differ no more than do the Greeks, Ger- 

 mans, and Arabs, or the Chinese, Tartars, 

 and Finns, or the New Zealanders and Ma- 

 lays, which are respectively referred to the 

 same race. The truth is, that the different 

 species admitted by some among the orangs 

 are in reality races among monkeys, or else 

 the races among men are nothing more than 

 what are called species among certain mon- 

 keys. . . . Listen for a moment to the fol- 

 lowing facts, and when you read this place a 

 map of the world before you. Upon a nar- 

 row strip of land along the Gulf of Guinea, 

 from Cape Palmas to the Gaboon, live two 

 so - called species of chimpanzee ; upon the 

 islands of Sumatra and Borneo live three or 

 four orangs; upon the shores of the Gulf 

 of Bengal, including the neighborhood of 

 Calcutta, Burmah, Malacca, Sumatra, Borneo, 

 and Java together, ten or eleven species of 

 gibbons, all of which are the nearest relatives 

 to the human family, some being as large as 



