284 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



it may with truth be said that in contrast with 

 the gulf of separation in all resulting characters, 

 these affinities are among the profoundest mys- 

 teries of Nature. Professor Huxley, in his work 

 on " Man's Place in Nature," has endeavoured 

 to prove that, so far as mere physical structure 

 is concerned, " the differences which separate 

 him from the Gorilla and the Chimpanzee are 

 not so great as those which separate the Gorilla 

 from the lower Apes." On the frontispiece of this 

 work he exhibits in series the skeletons of the 

 Anthropoid Apes and of Man. It is a grim and a 

 grotesque procession. The Form which leads it, 

 however like the others in general structural plan, 

 is wonderfully different in those lines and shapes 

 of Matter which have such mysterious power 

 of expressing the characters of Mind. And sig- 

 nificant as those differences are in the skeleton, 

 they are as nothing to the differences which 

 emerge in the living creatures. Huxley himself 

 admits that these differences amount to "an 

 enormous gulf," — to a "divergence immeasur- 

 able — practically infinite." What more striking 

 proof could we have than this, that Organic Forms 



