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of them are referred to in a cursory manner 

 by Dr. Whately. Let us examine them a 

 little nearer, 



"Man's place in nature" has long been, and 

 still is, the grand battle-ground of anatomists 

 and physiologists; but the points on which 

 they are disagreed among themselves have 

 not really any importance corresponding to 

 the vehemence with which they have been 

 disputed. The great French anatomist, Cuvier, 

 was of opinion that the distinctions between 

 Man's organism and the organism of the 

 highest among the beasts are of such magni- 

 tude and importance, that the human race 

 cannot be classified as belonging to the same 

 "Older" with any other creature, but must be 

 held to constitute an "Order" by itself. In 

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