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with every respect for the author of the Records of Creation * 

 I follow Linngeusf and Cuvier in regarding mankind as a legi- 

 timate subject of zoological comparison and classification. J" 

 Is not the admission of gradation the means of binding more 

 firmly together the great chain of human beings, a thing quite 

 impossible, which could not exist, or rather, which would only 

 be a caprice, an artificial method or system, if the classified 

 beings were only thus classified by creatures of their own de- 

 scription ? Does it not confirm, even more strongly, the con- 

 tinuous series in which Aristotle, Leibnitz, Bonnet, Linngeus, 

 and de Blainville have believed ? We shall proclaim, then, 

 the law, shaped by M. Flourens, who, however, does not re- 

 ceive it, as we do, without reservation : 



LAW. From animals to man everything is but a chain of un- 

 interrupted gradation ; therefore, there is no human kingdom. 

 Then comes this other conclusion, one and the same method 

 is applicable both to mankind and animals. 



* A Treatise on the Records of the Creation, by J. Bird Simmer, Lord Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, 6th edit., 8vo, London, 1850. 



f Nullum characterem hactenus eruere potui, unde homo a simia internos- 

 catur. Linnaeus, Fauna Suecica : prsefatio. 



J Owen, On the Characters of the Class Mammalia, p. 20, note (Journal of 

 Proceedings of Linnean Society, 1857.) 



