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read backwards, forwards, or sideways, with 

 exactly the same amount of signification." 



14. We revert then to our first enquiry: 

 What are the facts ? Prof. Huxley's facts are 

 opposed to his conclusions. When he has 

 admitted that between the lowest man and the 

 highest ape there is a general, a particular, and a 

 wide distinction ; a distinction which has left its 

 marks on " every bone " ; he then proceeds to 

 lay great stress on the fact that, between one 

 family of man and another the difference is 

 greater than between the lowest man and the 

 highest ape." l But when he has done this, he 

 proceeds in each case to show that there is a 

 far greater difference between this same ape, 

 and the apes of some other remaining class. 

 But these two statements furnish the import- 

 ant corollary that " there is the same, or an 

 analogous kind of distinction between one 

 family of man and another, and between one 

 family of ape and another." The idea thus 

 suggested is subversive of his theory : viz., 

 that the families of men are sprung from one 

 type, and the families of apes from another; 

 in other words, there is a generic as well as a 

 specific difference between men and apes." 



15. Prof. Huxley apart, it is allowed on all 



1 " Man's Place in Nature," p. 78. 



