2e8 Men. 



and the same result that the structural differ- 

 ences which separate man from the gorilla and 

 the chimpanzee, are not so great as those which 

 separate the gorilla from the lower apes." 



9. Even this latest dictum, if it had been 

 allowed to stand alone, would have been so far 

 definite as to redeem it from the character of 

 " qua-quei-versal." But it is not thus allowed. 

 No sooner has it been submissively accepted ; 

 no sooner have we brought ourselves with due 

 docility to admit that " the structural differences 

 between man and even the highest apes are 

 small and insignificant," than Prof. Huxley 

 protests he has been misunderstood. " Let me 

 take this opportunity then," says he, " of dis- 

 tinctly asserting, on the contrary, that they 

 are great and significant ; that every bone of a 

 Gorilla bears marks by which it might be dis- 

 tinguished from the corresponding bone of a 

 man ; and that in the present creation, at any 

 rate, no intermediate link bridges over the gap 

 between Homo and Troglodytes," 1 



IO. This would be conclusive, if only it were 

 final. But ii is not final. It is neutralized in 

 the next sentence but one : " Remember, if you 

 will, that there is no existing link between man 

 and the gorilla ; but do not forget that there is a 

 1 " Man's Place in Nature," p. 104. 



