Apes. 2 1 1 



the ordinary Platyrhini, or that both Marmosets 

 and Platyrhini are modified ramifications of a 

 primitive stock THEN, there would be no 

 rational ground for doubting that man MIGHT 

 have originated, in the one case, by the gra- 

 dual modification of a man-like ape ; or, in 

 the other case, as a ramification of the same 

 primitive stock as those apes." l 



Widely different from Mr. Darwin's " chain," 

 with every " single link " in its place, this re- 

 iterated relation of "If" and "then" ; with its 

 conditional sequence of what, after all, only 

 "seems to follow"; and its ultimate conclusion 

 that " Man might have originated," either in a 

 given mode, or in some other mode not given. 



Mr. Huxley adds, " I adopt Mr. Darwin's 

 hypothesis therefore, subject to the production 

 of proof that physiological species MAY be pro- 

 duced by selective breeding." z But this desid- 

 erated "proof" is precisely that very thing con- 

 cerning which both Mr. Huxley and Mr. Darwin 

 are agreed that it is not producible. Flourens, 

 and Cuvier, Buffon, and De Candolle, Mviller, 

 and John Hunter, Lyell, and Lawrence, Agas- 

 siz, and Pouchet, though they know nothing of 



1 Huxley's u Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature." 

 Williams & Norgate : 1863. Pp. 105, 106. 

 1 Ibid., p. 1 08. 



