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it that, between the minds of Ape and Monkey difference 
is inappreciable; between the minds of Man and Ape the 
difference is appreciably incalculable ; a difference accord- 
ing to Dr. Romanes “ not as to degree, but as to kind.” 
There is no detail, however small, too small to be 
made use of to prove the family alliance between Man 
in his beauty, and strength; and Woman in her beauty, 
and grace with that dire-looking brute the Gorilla. For 
instance, the direction of the hair or down on the forearm 
is pointed to as the same in both. 
The ill-developed Gastrocnemius (also Soleus) of the 
Dark Races is pointed out to bring them nearer to the 
Apes, than are the White Races with fuller and more 
shapely legs. But we are not told that the Apes are 
even more lacking in the ‘Gluteus ;’ whilst the Hottentot 
is quite as well furnished with that muscle as the White 
Man. Probably the cause for the poor shanks of some 
Dark Races musi be sought elsewhere: and more probably 
this imperfection is not shared by all Dark Races which 
differ greatly even in adjacent tribes. Travellers often 
tell of figures like beautiful bronzes; the bronzes are 
of Grecian type: and never yet had Greek bronze poor 
Gastrocnemius muscles. As to the Soleus upon which 
really depends the beauty of the leg, that might be over- 
looked, as it generally is in the illustrations to the 
Graphic and Illustrated London News: see drawings of 
Highlanders and Hottentots passim. 
Again among these details, to spell Evolution, 
one letter has, so far as I know, been ‘sazd nothing about’ ; 
because, so it appears to me, it would not be to the pur- 
pose. 
I allude to the Whites of the Eye (conjunctiva), 
By the principle of ‘Reversion,’ so useful to the 
Evolutionist to account for certain ‘ Variations.’ If the 
