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But in enunciating this important truth I must guard 
myself against a form of misunderstanding, which is very pre- 
valent. I find, in fact, that those who endeavour to teach 
what nature so clearly shows us in this matter, are liable to 
have their opinions misrepresented and their phraseology 
garbled, until they seem to say that the structural differences 
between man and even the highest apes are small and insig- 
nificant. Let me take this opportunity then of distinctly 
asserting, on the contrary, that they are great and significant ; 
that. every bone of a Gorilla bears marks by which it might 
be distinguished from the corresponding bone of a Man; and 
that, in the present creation, at any rate, no intermediate 
link bridges over the gap between Homo and Troglodytes. 
It would be no less wrong than absurd to deny the exist- 
ence of this chasm; but it is at least equally wrong and 
absurd to exaggerate its magnitude, and, resting on the ad= 
mitted fact of its existence, to refuse to inquire whether it is 
wide or narrow. Remember, if you will, that there is no 
existing link between Man and the Gorilla, but do not forget 
that there is ano less sharp line of demarcation, a no less 
complete absence of any transitional form, between the Gorilla 
and the Orang, or the Orang and the Gibbon. I say, not less 
sharp, though it is somewhat narrower. The structural dif- 
ferences between Man and the Man-like apes certainly justify 
our regarding him as constituting a family apart from them ; 
though, masmuch as he differs less from them than they do 
from other families of the same order, there can be no justi- 
fication for placing him in a distinct order. 
And thus the sagacious foresight of the great lawgiver of 
systematic zoology, Linnzeus, becomes justified, and a cen- 
tury of anatomical research brings us back to his conclusion, 
that man is a member of the same order (for which the Lin- 
nean term Primates ought to be retained) as the Apes and 
Lemurs. This order is now divisible into seven families, of 
about equal systematic value: the first, the AnTHRoPINI, 
contains Man alone; the second, the CararHini, embraces,” 
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