186 MAN AND APES. 



than in man. This, indeed, is a special de- 

 velopment, and is no approximation to an 

 inferior type of structure. 



On the contrary, both the great toe and the 

 thumb have no distinct tendon sent to them 

 from the deep long flexor muscles of the arm 

 and leg respectively. In this respect we find 

 an inverse difference to that precedingly 

 noticed. 



Again, the long muscle called flexor longus 

 hallucis does not take origin, as in the other 

 highest apes, from the leg, but from the bone 

 of the thigh. 



But neither the skeleton, nor yet the flesh 

 which clothes it, can be considered as the 

 most important system of organs, nor that 

 best calculated to manifest degrees of affinity 

 or supremacy. It is not the pillars, shields, 

 and levers of the body (bones), nor the cords 

 and fastenings which brace together (liga- 

 ments), or by tension act upon (muscles) those 

 pillars and levers, which can rationally be 

 regarded as supreme. Such supremacy must 



