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without being microcephalic. The brain we have 

 described scarcely differed from the normal weight; 

 it possessed all the convolutions and fissures, and 

 indeed, the convolutions were perhaps more numer- 

 ous than in the normal structure, yet it was different 

 in every respect, and approximated in its whole 

 structure to the simian rather than to the human 

 type. Krause adds that if the brain had been 

 placed before him without any intimation of its 

 origin, he should have been quite justified in con- 

 cluding that it belonged to an anthropoid ape, 

 which stood somewhat nearer to man than the 

 chimpanzee. 



It is an unquestionable fact that some human 

 beings, whether children or adults, who are endowed 

 with a defective bodily structure, and who are 

 affected with more or less pronounced physical 

 incapacity and mental weakness, by their appear- 

 ance, ungainly tricks, and helpless and aimless 

 motions, impress us in the most forcible way with 

 their resemblance to apes. Different degrees of 

 idiocy affect individuals of limited intellect, and 

 remind us of an absolutely brutish condition. 

 Krause describes the " ape-like " boy of seven and 

 a half years old, whom he had examined, as cheerful 

 and inclined to play and dance, but as passionate 

 when he was teased. The child was very supple, 

 fond of climbing, and with great strength in his 

 arms and hands, of which the latter had a horny 

 appearance, reminding him of the hands of a 

 chimpanzee. He could sit on the ground with his 

 legs wide apart. His gait was uncertain, and he 



