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humanity, but they lack the constructive abilities of birds and 

 insects ; they cannot learn to talk like parrots. " The differences," 

 says Professor Huxley, "between man and the highest apes are 

 great and significant; every bone of a gorilla bears marks by 

 which it may be distinguished from the corresponding bone of 

 a man ; and, in the present creation, no intermediate link 

 bridges over the gap between homo and traglodytes" It would 

 require twenty-four considerable alterations to make the body 

 of the gorilla like that of a man. An English skull has a brain 

 holding capacity of 96 cubic inches; that of a Hottentot 75 

 inches; the gorilla's, 34^ inches; the chimpanzee. 27^; the 

 ourang, 26. Look at the stuffed specimen and skeleton of the 

 gorilla at the British Museum, and see if it very much resem- 



Fig. 14. SKULL OF ORANG OUTANQ. 



