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lated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the 
cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he 
stands raised upon it, as on a mountain top, far above the level of his 
hu abe fellows, and seabaligared from his grosser nature by reflecting, 
here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.” It is possible 
apes in the present age of the hertz Serer gee ~ various stages of 
weight as argument, since the question is as to the fact whether, under 
nature’s laws, such a transition has taken place as the gradual change of 
an Ape into a Man, or, whether Apes were made to be, and remain, Apes. 
In the Ape, the great muscle of the foot, the flexor longus pollicis, di- 
vides and sends a an to three or are of the toes, while in Man, it 
oe alone: Is it a fact that this, and the ma wd 
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= individual differences, is very tae among the vided anes 
Soi now toe 
The few ieienias of ancient skulls of — capacity, made re- 
cently in Europe, indicate the condition of some of the early tribes on 
e lower pithecoid form,” that is, re that of the 
Should similar discoveries be made all over the A protng a 
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