MAN AND APES. 193 



Dropping now the metaphor of immaterial 

 spirits, it seems that the answers supposed to 

 be given by such spirits must be the answers 

 really given by sincere and unbiassed in- 

 vestigators in the combined spheres of Zoology 

 and Anthropology. 



But however near to apes may be the body 

 of man, whatever the kind or number of 

 resemblances between them, it should be 

 always borne in mind that it is to no one 

 kind of ape tbat man has any special or 

 exclusive affinities— that the resemblances be- 

 tween him and lower forms are shared in not 

 very unequal proportions by different species ; 

 and be the preponderance of resemblance in 

 which species it may, whether in the Chim- 

 panzee, the Siamang, or the Orang, there can 

 be no question that at least such preponderance 

 of resemblance is not presented by the much 

 vaunted Gorilla, which is essentially no less a 

 brute and no more a man than is the humblest 

 member of the family to which it belongs. 



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