72 THE MAN-LIKE APES I 



herent improbability in his assertions respecting 

 the man-like Apes ; nor from any wish to throw 

 suspicion on his veracity ; but because, in my 

 opinion, so long as his narrative remains in its 

 present state of unexplained and apparently 

 inexplicable confusion, it has no claim to original 

 authority respecting any subject whatsoever. 

 It may be truth, but it is not evidence. 



