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of anatomical demonstration, that in all the 

 features of our bodily structure — even up to our 

 brains — we more closely resemble the man-like 

 apes than the man-like apes resemble the lower 

 quadrumana. And I beg it to be remembered 

 that the tremendous significance of this fact can 

 only be duly appreciated by those who know 

 the astounding complexity of our bodily structure. 

 Those who are ignorant of human anatomy 

 cannot form any adequate — probably not even 

 an approximate — conception of its intricacy. Yet 

 we find that this terrifically intricate organisation 

 is repeated down to all the minute bones and 

 muscles, blood-vessels, nerves and viscera, in the 

 bodies of the higher apes. Here, then, I say, 

 we have a fact — or rather let me say a hundred 

 thousand facts — which cannot possibly be at- 

 tributed to chance. As reasonable beings we 

 must conclude that there has been some definite 

 cause for this extraordinary imitation by the most 



