er variations of the Monkey that we must 

 look in this matter, but to just the reverse of 

 each. And then in many respects a striking 

 parallel is observed to exist between the "lord 

 of creation" and his Quadrumana relatives 

 the Chimpanzee and the Ourang Otang which 

 clearly establishes the extremely rational view 

 I have advanced and enables us to experience 

 very little diificulty in tracing back these kin- 

 dred creatures to a remote, an ancient, but a 

 general stock ; although exactly what that 

 common forefather was is as likely to forever 

 remain as profound a mystery as the astound- 

 ing problem of how the beginning of things 

 could take place or the absolute ending of all 

 matter can ever occur ! 



We have never found any living or fossil 

 link to form a chain between Man and the 

 Ape, nothing to close the gap separating the 

 two related animals like Owen's rhynchosau- 

 rus bonds the avines to the saurians, and the 

 pliosaurus unites the pterodactyle to the croc- 

 odile. I doubt that any such creature will be 

 discovered ; to my mind there never was oc- 

 casion for its existence : more likely some relic 

 of an, at present, unknown animal proving to 

 be the forerunner of both species, will be ex- 



