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approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis 
was to the true theory of the planetary motions” (p. 107). 
The main argument of the work has been met by the writer in his 
article (this volume, p. 65), on the Classification of Mammals. It is 
there shown, that Man stands apart from all other Mammals, on the 
basis of a characteristic of profound zoological value. The character- 
istic referred to is this:—that, in Man, the fore-limbs are withdrawn 
completely from the locomotive series, and transferred to the cephalic j 
and, thus, a very large anterior portion of the body is turned over to 
the service of the head, while the posterior or gastric portion is re- 
uced to its minimum. This condition of extreme cephalization in 
the system is of the very highest significance, and places Man alone. 
Man’s erect structure is a part of its expression. The nature of the feet 
in Man,—they being made simply for supporting the body, and not, as 
in the Quadrumana, for clinging or grasping—is a concomitant featare 
which the brute has no share, and to the possession of which no 
Whatever the point of view, then, we see reason wholly to dissent 
from the sentiment with which Prof. Huxley concludes his chapter “0? 
the relations of Man to the lower animals” (p. 112): “Our er al 
for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge, t 
Man is, in substance and in structure, one with the brates; for he alone 
rossesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational 
reby, in the secular period of his existence, he has slowly accumu 
