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. all others I mean the skull." And then, after 

 giving the cubical capacity of the smallest 

 human cranium, and of " the most capacious 

 Gorilla skull yet measured," he says, " Let us 

 assume, lor simplicity's sake, that the lowest 

 man's skull has twice the capacity of that of the 

 highest Gorilla." l 



5. The sum o* the statements already quoted, 

 then, is this : The " Family distinction " of the 

 genus Homo is to be ,iound not in his higher, but 

 in his lower, qualities ; "resting chiefly," not on 

 the size of his skull, nor on the weight of his 

 brain, but " on his dentition, his pelvis, and his 

 lower limbs." And yet, notwithstanding this, 



6. " That by which the human frame is so 

 strongly distinguished from all others " is not 

 the baser structure, but the nobler substance ; 

 not his lower limbs, but "a nobler and more 

 characteristic organ . . . the skull." 



7. Prof. Huxley need not think it strange if, 

 in despair of reconciling the conflicting members 

 of this duplex thesis that Man's " family dis- 

 tinction " is not cranial, and yet that by which 

 he is "so strongly distinguished from all others" 

 is cranial ; that " the great gulf in intellectual 

 power which intervenes between the lowest man 

 and the highest ape " is of little moment, and 



1 " Man's Place in Nature," p. 77. 



