232 Men. 



hands that socially, morally, religiously, and 

 historically, men and apes are generically dis- 

 tinct. But this distinction as matter of fact 

 either involves a generic distinction between 

 the physiological structure of men and apes, or 

 it does not. If it does, then Mr. Huxley's 

 theory is disproved by the fact ; and man is 

 not " in substance and in structure one with the 

 brutes." If it does not, then " the cause of this 

 distinction must be looked for elsewhere, and 

 science will have to admit that in man there is 

 an immaterial element which physiology cannot 

 grasp," an element adequate to his elevation 

 at a height so immeasurably above the rest of 

 the animal world. 



1 6. Nor is it to be forgotten that, even by 

 Prof. Huxley himself, this elevation of man 

 above the ape is regarded comparatively as 

 being not merely "immeasurable," but "prac- 

 tically infinite." " Believing as I do, with 

 Cuvier," he says, " that the possession of articu- 

 late speech is the grand distinctive character 

 of man," ..." the primary cause of the 

 UN MEASURABLE and practically infinite diver- 

 gence of the Human from the Simian Stirps." 2 



By universal consent then, nothing is more 



1 " Man's Place in Nature," p. 103 n. 

 * Ibid.y p. 103 . 



