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for saying that the gibbons, “ without having been 
taught, can walk or run upright with tolerable 
quickness, though they move awkwardly, and much — 
less securely than man.” The Quarterly Reviewer 
says, “ This is a little misleading, inasmuch as it is — 
not stated that this upright progression is effected 
by placing the enormously long arms behind the 
head, or holding them out backwards as a balance 
in progression.’ 
Now, before carping at a small statement like 
this, the Quarterly Reviewer should have made ~ 
sure that he was quite right. But he happens to 
be quite wrong. I suspect he got his notion of 
the manner in whicha gibbon walks from a citation — 
in “ Man’s Place in Nature.” But at that time I 
had not seen a gibbon walk. Since then I have, F 
and I can testify that nothing can be more precise — 
than Mr, Darwin’s statement. The gibbon I saw | 
walked without either putting his arms behind — 
his head or holding them out backwards. All he — 
did was to touch the ground with the outstretched : | 
fingers of his long arms now and then, just as one 
sees a man who carries a stick, but does not need | 
one, touch the ground with it as he walks along. — 
Again, a large number of the objections brought; 
forward by Mr. *Mivart and the Quarterly Reviewer _ 
apply to evolution in general, quite as much as cal 
the particular form of that doctrine advocated by | 
Mr. Darwin ; or, to their notions of Mr. Darwin’s — 
views and ot to what they really are. An excel- 
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