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our own time Professor Owen holds the same 

 opinion. Professor Huxley, on the other 

 hand, has undertaken to prove that the 

 anatomical differences between the human 

 frame and the frame of the Gorilla, or Chim- 

 panzee, are not such, either in kind or in 

 degree, as to justify this wide distinction. 

 But he specially limits this conclusion to the 

 differences of physiology, and confesses that, if 

 in defining Man we are to take into account 

 the phenomena of Mind, there is between 

 Man and those beasts which stand nearest to 

 him in anatomy, a difference so wide that it 

 cannot be measured — an "enormous gulf" — 

 "a, divergence immeasurable" and "practically 

 infinite." But this last conclusion is really 

 incompatible with tlie first. There is in 



