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the Gorilla, when we place no such value on 

 the sixty-eight cubic inches which lie between 

 the Hindu and Sir Isaac Newton, we are but 

 accepting the evidence of Nature — following 

 where she leads, and classifying according to 

 her award. 



The bearing of this conclusion on the 

 Origin of Man is simply this, that in 

 proportion as the difference between Man 

 and the lower animals is properly appreciated 

 in the light of nature, in the same proportion 

 will the difficulty increase of conceiving how 

 the chasm could be passed by any process 

 of Transmutation or Development. 



This difficulty is still further increased if 

 we advert for a moment to the direction in 



which the human frame diverges from the 



