276 THE HISTORY OF CREATION, 
become more intimately acquainted with the Gorilla, and 
its connection with Man by the application of the Theory 
of Descent—have excited such universal interest, and called 
forth such a flood of writings, that there is no oceasion for 
me here to enter into any detail about them. The reader 
will find their relations to Man fully discussed in the ex- 
cellent works of Huxley, Carl Vogt,” Biichner,* and 
Rolle.® I shall therefore confine myself to stating the 
most important general conclusion resulting from their 
thorough comparison with Man, namely, that each one of 
the four Man-like Apes stands nearer to Man in one or 
several respects than the rest, but that no one of them can 
in every respect be called absolutely the most like Man. 
The Orang stands nearest to Man in regard to the formation 
of the brain, the Chimpanzee in important characteristics 
in the formation of the skull, the Gorilla in the development 
of the feet and hands, and, lastly, the Gibbon in the forma- 
tion of the thorax. 
Thus, from a careful examination of the comparative 
anatomy of the Anthropoides, we obtain a similar result to 
that obtained by Weisbach, from a statistical classification 
and a thoughtful comparison of the very numerous and 
careful measurements which Scherzer and Schwarz made 
of the different races of Men during their voyage in the 
Austrian frigate Novara round the earth. Weisbach com- 
prises the final result of his investigations in the follow- 
ing words: “The ape-like characteristics of Man are by 
no means concentrated in one or another race, but are 
distributed in particular parts of the body, among the 
different races, in such a manner that each is endowed 
with some heirloom of this relationship—one race more so, 
