280 Anima Mundi. 



Of the chasms which separate species, the 

 same author writes, " It was this gap, and this 

 only, which Darwin undertook to fill up by his 

 great work on the origin of species, but not- 

 withstanding the immense amount of material 

 thus expended, it yawns as wide as ever, since 

 it must be admitted that no case has been 

 ascertained in which an individual of one species 

 has transgressed the limits between it and other 

 species." l 



Transcending all the rest is the gulf that 

 separates the brute from man. It is Professor 

 Huxley himself who tells us that the "diver- 

 gence of the Human from the Simian Stirps " is 

 "immeasurable and practically infinite." Who 

 made it so ? Huxley believes, with Cuvier, 

 that " the possession of articulate speech is the 

 grand distinctive character of man." But 

 whence did he derive an endowment so unique 

 and so invaluable ? " Men have words, which 

 are projected ideas ; brutes have only sounds, 

 which are projected sensations. Brutes voci- 

 ferate : men speak. The physical organiza- 

 tion is wedded to the mental capacity a mouth, 

 and wisdom. Neither, apart, would effloresce 

 into Language : both must conspire and com- 

 bine. So the one mind which has thoughts to 

 1 See Appendix, Note H. 



