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— although there is no common standard 

 to which they are all referred, — yet, as a 

 matter of fact, the peculiarities chosen are not 

 only the most salient and the most character- 

 istic peculiarities of the animals as a whole, 

 but they are connected with others which run 

 through the whole organism, and with some 

 corresponding similarities of instinct and dis- 

 position. But no such defence can be offered 

 for the system which groups Man in the same 

 Order with the Chimpanzee or the Ourang- 

 outang, upon the ground merely that the 

 limbs ot those animals are terminated by 

 organs which are anatomically "true feet and 

 true hands;" or because they have the same 

 number of teeth ; or because the same primary 

 divisions exist in the structure of the brain. 



