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bones to form a ridge at the sagittal suture. This feature, indeed, is found 

 among some races of men justly placed near the lowest stages of civilization ; but 

 I must say that I have found it recently in a perfectly pure white man one of 

 the most distinguished Delegates who have come to the Congress from America. 

 It was indeed far more strongly marked in him than in any skull in our 

 Museum. 



From these facts and many others, I conclude that we ought to be very careful 

 in assigning significance to characters of which in reality we know neither the 

 cause nor the value ; and I should always with regret employ expressions liable 

 to deceive others not acquainted with their real value, and likely to lead them to 

 believe in agreements between Man and Apes, of which nobody is thinking. 



