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of it is found in the gorilla (Mivart) ; and, as I hear 

 from Professor Preyer, it is 'not rarely absent in the 

 negro." The lobule, as peculiar to man alone, has been 

 long an understood fact ; it is Mr. Darwin himself sig- 

 nalises the tubercle. They are the arms of the finger-post, 

 and point contrariwise. What might secern man, Mr. 

 Darwin almost ignores ; but what would fling him to the 

 beasts, inconstant and evanescent as it is, he cannot 

 make enough of. Voltaire exclaimed of Eousseau and his 

 Discours, '' Never has there been so much wit expended 

 to make beasts of us one feels actually inclined to run 

 on all-fours ! " A hundred years later in date, any such 

 exclamation would only have become a hundred times 

 more relevant, had Voltaire lived to read Darwin. 1 



1 That Mr. Darwin, with more than microscopic eyesight to the 

 tubercle, is purblind to the lobule, is less art than self-deception to 

 wish. There is a tint of slyness in the Mivart. 



