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When at last he caught cold, and was laid low 

 with pneumonia, his actions were almost human. He 

 put his arms round General M.'s neck, kissed him 

 twice, then lying back on his pillow, he stretched out 

 his arm, took the General's hand, and died. Such 

 cases seem to lessen the great gulf which separates the 

 highest class of apes from mankind, and they bring 

 home to us Huxley's perfectly valid statement, that a 

 wider gulf separates the lowest tribe of monkeys from 

 the highest class of apes than that which exists between 

 the highest class of apes and human beings. 



Bobby does not compare ill with the Australian 

 aborigines, who can hardly be said to possess even a 

 rudimentary soul, and whose brutal instincts leave upon 

 us a grisly impression of their bestial natures and deep 

 degradation. At the same time it seems impossible 

 that man can be descended from any of the species 

 of monkey now living ; and it is more probable that 

 both apes and man have been produced from a common 

 ground form of which there remains now no trace, 

 but which is strongly expressed in the structure of 

 young specimens. Childhood is less advanced, and 

 the young ape stands infinitely nearer to the human 

 child than the adult ape does to the man. 



We rose gradually up a steep hillside with a 

 tremendous drop on the left, which was scantily 

 protected in places by posts and rails; a little wooden 

 cross at one of the worst corners marked the spot 

 where, a few years before, a subaltern and his pony had 

 been found dead at the bottom. A goat or a monkey, 



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