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show how man, with respect to his body, is the 

 most highly developed type of mammal ; but 

 I regard it as morphologically wrong to place 

 him with apes in the same order of our zoological 

 system. Therefore it seems to me unsuitable 

 to speak of a ' resemblance between man and 

 other apes.' This was my standpoint also in 

 the 3rd edition of my work on Biology and the 

 Theory of Evolution (chap. ii.). But neither 

 there nor in my lectures did I ever accuse 

 Dr. Friedenthal of atheism, because he classed 

 man, with respect to his body, with apes, so 

 as to form one order in our system. The 

 speaker is therefore not justified in calling this 

 'Father Wasmann's point of view.' In my 

 opinion the mental divergency constitutes the 

 chief difference between man and beast; the 

 bodily differences are of less importance. 



Dr. Friedenthal arrived at last at his chief argu- 

 ment. 'What is proved by the researches made 

 into Hood-relationship ? Nothing, but what Father 

 Wasmann himself said, viz. a chemical resemblance 

 on the part of two individuals, whose resemblance 

 could not be established without these investigations' 

 This was, however, in the speaker's opinion, a new 

 point, saving people the trouble of raising further 

 questions and of doubting whether they were 

 dealing with different individuals (!) It had been 

 proved that morphological resemblance was, as a 



