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rule, enough to establish relationship, and in the 

 course of sixteen thousand experiments, carried 

 out by Nuttal and his pupils, no distinction had 

 been found between morphological and chemical 

 resemblance. 1 



Thus if Wasmann means that nothing beyond 

 this has been attained by these experiments, I 

 agree with him ; but a new aspect of relationship 

 has been revealed, and that is what my experiments 

 were intended to demonstrate. 



I accept this correction of Dr. Friedenthal s 

 with great satisfaction. (Cf. my closing speech.) 

 A resemblance between different kinds of blood 

 must not be confused with a blood-relationship 

 in the sense of a community of origin, as has 

 been very widely done. Friedenthal s former 

 dictum : We are not merely descended from 

 apes, but we are ourselves genuine apes, was 

 not intended to bear the meaning which we 

 felt its literal interpretation required. We 

 have this on his own authority, and I am 

 perfectly satisfied. 



Friedenthal next went on to discuss the peculi 

 arities of the human soul, and said that on this 

 topic he agreed more closely with Father Wasmann 

 than the previous speakers had done. The soul 

 existed in the world of concepts or ideals, which 



1 In my third lecture I quoted Rossle, who proves that in many cases 

 morphological and chemical resemblance do not coincide. 



