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transformation. Yet your language sounds ambiguously. 

 If, however, you mean to assert, for example, that the 

 gorilla ever ran or progressed in a way different from 

 that in which it " runs" or "progresses" now, I must call 

 on you to prove your assertion. 



Homo. A vain call that would be, my Lord. Mr. Darwin 

 would only furnish your Lordship with another curious 

 specimen of reasoning. "When Mr. Darwin is reasoning — 

 will your Lordship pardon the remark ? — he reminds me 

 of those apes he has been speaking of, which use their long 

 arms like crutches, swinging their bodies forward between 

 them. The premises that Mr. Darwin reasons from are 

 certainly not facts, but merely monkey-like crutches. He 

 plants them, however, as jfirmly as he can on some imagin- 

 ary basis, and then swings himself forward between 

 them, through all the acknowledged laws of human science 

 and logic, to the position he wishes to occupy. Mr. 

 Darwin's intellectual movements, my Lord, in conducting 

 the reasoning process, are far more ungainly than those 

 bodily movements of the gorilla which he has just described, 

 Natural Selection, my Lord, may have endowed Mr. Darwin 

 with considerable power of imagination, and with a capacious 

 memory for the facts of Natural History, but she has certainly 

 denied him the gift of being able to reason justly, and that 

 yet higher gift — the true spirit of philosophy — which, as 

 your Lordship remarked, is just a " sincere love of 

 truth." 



Lord G. Have you anything to say, Mr. Darwin, re- 

 garding the size of the brain in man compared with its 

 size in the lower animals ? 



Danvin. My Lord, " Dr. J. Barnard Davis has proved by 

 many careful measurements, that the mean internal capacity 

 of the skull in Europeans is 92-3 cubic inches ; in Americans, 



