THE INTERPRETER II3 



diate success. It remains a classic on the subject, 

 because, as Mr. Chalmers Mitchell remarks, " the ad- 

 vance of knowledge has only added to the details of 

 the argument ; it has not made any reconstruction of 

 it necessary." ! 



An outline of the chapter describing the manlike 

 apes, and explaining the likenesses and differences be- 

 tween them and man, may help to make clear how 

 inevitable was a controversy in which Huxley took 

 the chief part. 



It is obvious that, in any classification of animals 

 founded on external resemblances, both empiric and ex- 

 pert would agree in grouping the monkeys, those 

 " blurred copies," often caricatures, of man, with him. 

 And " the great lawgiver of systematic zoology," 

 Linnaeus, places man and the four anthropoid or man- 

 like apes — the chimpanzee, gorilla, orang-utan, and 

 gibbon — at the head of the Primates, the name given 

 by him to the highest members of the Vertebrate 

 class. The chimpanzee and gorilla are sometimes 

 grouped as of the same genus, but the orang-utan and 

 gibbon are undoubtedly distinct genera. They are 

 found only in the old world — the chimpanzee and 

 gorilla inhabiting tropical Africa, and the orang-utan 

 and gibbon southeastern Asia and the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. They are tailless, semi-erect, long-armed, 

 1 Thomas Henry Huxley, p. 185. 



