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existence, to refuse to inquire whether it is wide 

 or narrow. Remember, if you will, that there is 

 no existing link between Man and the Gorilla, 

 but do not forget that there is a no less sharp line 

 of demarcation, a no less complete absence of any 

 transitional form, between the Gorilla and the 

 Orang, or the Orang and the Gibbon. I say, not 

 less sharp, though it is somewhat narrower. The 

 structural differences between Man and the Man- 

 like apes certainly justify our regarding him 

 as constituting a family apart from them; 

 though, inasmuch as he differs less from them 

 than they do from other families of the same 

 order, there can be no justification for placing 

 him in a distinct order. 



And thus the sagacious foresight of the great 

 lawgiver of systematic zoology, Linnaeus, becomes 

 justified, and a century of anatomical research 

 brings us back to his conclusion, that man is a 

 member of the same order (for which the Linnsean 

 term PRIMATES ought to be retained) as the Apes 

 and Lemurs. This order is now divisible into seven 

 families, of about equal systematic value: the 

 first, the ANTHROPINI, contains Man alone ; - the 

 second, the CATARHINI, embraces the old world 

 apes; the third, the PLATYRHINI, all new world 

 apes, except the Marmosets; the fourth, the 

 ARCTOPITHECINI, contains the Marmosets ; the 

 fifth, the LEMURINI, the Lemurs from which 

 Chciromys should probably be excluded to form a 

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