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within the brain, and by variety of sensitive capacity 

 and of motor power. His superiority is not so conspicu 

 ous in muscular power, as it is in sensibility, serviceable 

 to rational intelligence. Keliable guidance for com 

 parative results is found in structure, not in external 

 form. On this account, comparison between the ape 

 and man, presenting resemblance striking to the eye, 

 and available for pictorial representation, is far from 

 supplying evidence of the approximation of the two 

 orders of life. Comparisons, founded on internal 

 structure, are not by any means so suggestive of 

 affinity. It may be fortunate in many ways that we 

 have been liberally supplied with pictorial repre 

 sentations of the ape, for Zoological gardens find 

 great difficulty in presenting living specimens. The 

 Anthropoid does not promise well for the future. 

 As to comparative structure, there is accessible 

 guidance in Huxley s well-known work, Mans Place 

 in Nature, where the main facts are given. Let us 

 present the resemblances and contrasts, keeping 

 comparative intelligence for the present out of view. 

 When internal structure is the test, in what is the ape 

 more like to man, than the dog ? Is it not mainly in 

 form ? The vital organs are analogous ; differentiation 

 in the muscular system is as great in the one as in 

 the other. The dog is at least equal to the ape in the 

 general sensory system, and is superior in sense of 

 smell ; the brain is well-nigh as elaborate in the dog 

 as in the ape. Science has not demonstrated great 

 structural superiority for the ape. The form of body 

 is more like to that of man, and so in consequence is 

 the/orm of brain; but, when comparative structure 

 is considered, a plea for superiority of the ape cannot 



