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the Guenons and Macaques.” Prof. Huxley calls attention 
to the differences between the cranial capacity of different 
races of mankind being far greater than between the lowest 
Man and the highest Ape. Thus, the highest human skull 
measured by Morton, containing one hundred and fourteen 
cubic inches, compared with the lowest, containing only 
sixty-three cubic inches, gives us a difference of fifty- 
one cubic inches; while a Gorilla's skull, containing 
thirty-four and a half inches, compared with the lowest 
human skull just mentioned, gives us a difference of only 
twenty-nine and a half cubic inches. 
Let us consider now briefly the habits and mental powers 
of some of the barbarous races of mankind. Among these 
probably stand lowest the Australians and the inhabitants 
of the adjoining islands, the Bushmen; the Hottentots, and 
some of the Negro races. The languages of these races are 
among the poorest known, they having no abstract words, 
like animal, plant, color, sound, each animal and each plant 
being designated by a particular name. The mind of 
these people is so little developed that there are no abstract 
ideas of which such abstract words are the corresponding 
expression. As quoted by Buchner, De la Gironniére says 
of the Ayetas of the Philippine Islands, *that they gave 
him the impression of being a great family of monkeys: 
their voice recalled the short cry of these animals, and 
their movements strengthened the analogy." According to 
Buchner, “the language of the savages of Borneo is rather 
a kind of warbling or croaking than a truly human mode 
and Sir Emerson Tennent relates of the 
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Veddahs of Ceylon “that they communicate among them- 
selves almost entirely by means of signs, grimaces, guttural 
| sounds, resembling generally very little, true words, or true 
language." Some of these races, as the Australians, for 
example, cannot count over four or five. Many barbarous 
tribes live in trees, eating fruits, roots, worms, flies, etc.; they 
