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no less sharp line of demarcation, a no less com- 

 plete absence of any transitional form, between 

 the gorilla and the orang, or the orang and the 

 gibbon. I say not less sharp, though it is some- 

 what narrower." l 



II. Can anything be plainer ? Prof. Huxley 

 anticipates the result "On all sides I shall, 

 hear the cry ' We are men and women, not a 

 mere better sort of apes, a little longer in the legs 

 more compact in the foot, and bigger in brain 

 than your brutal chimpanzees and gorillas. 

 The power of knowledge, the conscience of good 

 and evil, the pitiful tenderness of human affec- 

 tions, raise us out of all real fellowship with the 

 brutes, however closely they may seem to ap- 

 proximate us.' " And what is his answer to the 

 objurgation he thus anticipates ? 



Here it is: "I have endeavoured to show that 

 no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider 

 than that between the animals which im- 

 mediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn 

 between the animal world and ourselves, and I 

 may add the expression of my belief that the 

 attempt to draw a psychical distinction is 

 equally futile, and that even the highest faculties 

 of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in 

 lower forms of life." 3 



1 M Man's Place in Nature." * Ibid.> p. 109. 



