CRANIAL CAPACITY. 57 



a skull contains. Professor Huxley tells us,* 

 on the authority of Professor Schaafhausen, 

 that some Hindu skulls have as small a 

 capacity as 46 cubic inches, whilst the largest 

 Gorilla yet m.easured contained upwards of 35 

 cubic inches. This represents a difference of 

 volume of less than ii cubic inches. But 

 the difference between this Hindu skull and 

 the largest European skull (114 cubic inches) 

 amounts, according to the same authority, to 

 no less than 68 cubic inches. Nevertheless 

 the significance set by the facts of nature 

 upon that difference of 11 cubic inches 

 between the Gorilla and the Man, is the 

 difference between an irrational brute confined 

 to some one climate and to some limited area 



Lyell's "Antiquity of Man/' p. 84. 



