GENESIS OF MAN, INTELLECTUALLY 



cubic inches of brain, and set him alongside of 

 the chimpanzee with his thirty-five cubic inches 

 of brain, the difference seems so enormous as 

 to be incompatible with any original kinship. 

 But when we interpose the Australian, whose 

 brain, measuring seventy cubic inches, comes 

 considerably nearer to that of the chimpanzee 

 than to that of the Teuton, the case is entirely 

 altered, and we are no longer inclined to admit 

 sweeping statements about the immeasurable 

 superiority of man, which we may still admit, 



I provided they are restricted to civilized man. 



[ If we examine the anatomical composition of 



these brains, the discovery that in structural 

 complexity the Teutonic cerebrum surpasses the 

 Australian even more than the latter surpasses 

 that of the chimpanzee, serves to strengthen 

 us in our position. And when we pass from 

 facts of anatomy to facts of psychology, we 

 obtain still further confirmation — for we find 

 that the difference in structure is fully paralleled 

 by the difference in functional manifestation. 

 If the Englishman shows such wonderful com- 

 mand of relations of space, time, and number, 

 as to be able to tell us that to an observer sta- 

 tioned at Greenwich on the yth of June, a. d. 

 2004, at precisely nine minutes and fifty-six 

 seconds after five o'clock in the morning, Venus 

 will begin to cross the sun's disk ; on the other 

 hand, the Australian is able to count only up 



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