COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



powerfully as this anatomical fact confirms the 

 position we have all along been upholding, its 

 full value will not be apparent if we are so daz- 

 zled by it as to overlook the significance of the 

 lesser difference between the gorilla and the ab- 

 original inhabitant of India. As the Duke of 

 Argyll very properly observes, we do right in 

 setting a higher value in classification upon the 

 eleven inches which intervene between the go- 

 rilla and the Hindu than upon the sixty-eight 

 inches which intervene between the Hindu and 

 the Englishman. For " the significance set by 

 the facts of nature upon that difference of eleven 

 cubic inches ... is the difference between an 

 irrational brute confined to some one climate 

 and to some limited area of the globe, — which 

 no outward conditions can modify or improve, 

 — and a being equally adapted to the whole 

 habitable world, with powers, however unde- 

 veloped, of comparison, of reflection, of judg- 

 ment, of reason, with a sense of right and wrong, 

 and with all these capable of accumulated ac- 

 quisition, and therefore of indefinite advance." 

 Though somewhat exaggerated in what it denies 

 to the brute, and much more in what it claims 

 for the aboriginal man, this statement contains 

 a kernel of truth which is of value for our pre- 

 sent purpose, and which is further illustrated by 

 the fact that a minimum of brain substance " is 

 constantly and uniformly associated with all the 

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