THE MAN 



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pendent parentage will not change the brutishness of 

 man's lower nature ; nor, except to those valet souls 

 who cannot see greatness in their fellow because his 

 father was a cobbler, will the demonstration of a 

 pithecoid pedigree one whit diminish man's divine 

 right of kingship over nature ; nor lower the great 

 and princely dignity of perfect manhood, which is an 

 order of nobility, not inherited, but to be won by each 

 of us, so far as he consciously seeks good and avoids 

 evil, and puts the faculties with which he is endowed 

 to their fittest use. 1 



Notwithstanding "the crushing evidence from orig- 

 inal dissections of numerous apes' brains" adduced 



by Rolleston, Flower, and other comparative anato- 

 mists, Owen repeated and never retracted the thing 

 which he must have known to be false : the question 

 between Huxley and himself therefore became one of 

 u personal veracity," and led to a permanent rupture. 

 Moreover, Owen was known to have written an ad- 

 verse notice of the Origin of Species in the Edinburgh 

 Review of April, i860, and to have inspired Wilber- 

 force in the preparation of his article upon the book 

 in the Quarterly Review of the following July, an 

 article of which Huxley said — 



It is a production which should be bound up in good 

 stout calf, or better, asses' skin, if such material is to 

 be had, by the curious book-collector, together with 

 Brougham's attack on the undulatory theory of light 

 when it was first propounded by Young. 



1 lb., p. 67. 



